Kenya Country Profile 2018

KENYA

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Alice Omutse and her husband, Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.

elf Help Africa in Kenya works with smallholder

SHA works with smallholder farmers, farmer groups and

farmers to move them from subsistence to

associations across the country, including in the arid and

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commercialisation through a range of projects from

semi-arid areas to address food security and nutrition

supporting those in extreme poverty, to assisting enterprise

challenges, and link farmers to markets through a farming

development and business partnerships.

as a business approach.

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PROJECT KEY

S O U T H S U D A N

Kilimo

Lake Turkana, (Lake Rudolf)

Cassava Aggregation - Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition

E T H I O P I A

Keringet Community Empowerment Project Youth Empowerment in Kisumu

U G A N D A Extensive Agriculture and Savanna

S O M A L I A

Intensive Agriculture Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Barren

Nakuru

Mt. Kenya

K E N Y A Nairobi

Mt. Kilimanjaro T A N Z A N I A

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Donor

Total Budget

Time Frame

Implementing Partner

Programme Area

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Kenyan Initiative for Long-term Integration of Market Operators in the Value Chain (KILIMO-VC)

European Commission

€ 24,434,796

2018 ­ 2022

Imani Development Ltd (IDL)

Nationwide, with a focus on arid and semiarid lands

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Cassava Aggregation Supporting Smallholder Agriculture & Value Addition

European Commission

€ 6,517,496

2016

UCRC (Ugunja Community Resource Centre), Ustadi Foundation, Rheal Solutions, Rafiki Microfinance Bank, and TruTrade

Coastal & Western regions

Keringet Community Empowerment Project

The Rotary Foundation

Direct implementation

Keringet, Kiptulwa

Direct implementation

Kisumu

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2022

€ 82,392.75

2017 2018

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Youth Empowerment in Kisumu

Designer Group

€ 59,404

­2018 ­ 2019

KENYA PROGRAMMES

Programme

Beatrice Abukayot at her farm in Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.

Beatrice Abukayot at her farm in Teso South, Busia, Kenya, 2018.

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KENYAN INITIATIVE FOR LONG TERM INTEGRATION OF MARKET OPERATORS IN THE VALUE CHAIN (KILIMO-VC)

KENYA PROGRAMMES

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Objective: Improved integration of smallholder farmers/pastoralists in climate smart value chains.

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ILIMO-VC is a €24 millon five-year agribusiness

or customers requiring inputs, finance and equipment.

support programme that is part of the European

Self Help Africa is collaborating with Imani Development, a

Union’s Kenya-AgriFI programme.

private economic development consultancy, focusing on three specific thematic areas:

It supports productive, adapted and market-integrated

1. Climate smart agricultural inputs

smallholder agriculture, including a contribution to the Africa

2. Agri-processing and aggregation

Investment Facility.

3. Nutrition

The objective of the project is to increase the capacity of

The funded projects are required to support businesses in a

100,000 smallholder farmers/pastoralists to practice

wide variety of undertakings, including farmer training on

environmentally sustainable and climate-smart agriculture as

climate adaptation, capacity development of cooperatives,

a business in inclusive value chains.

equipment investments, improving quality standards, participatory research and, marketing and branding

Over five years (2018-2022), KILIMO- VC will assist

investments, among others.

smallholder households to move from subsistence farming to a more business-oriented approach. There will be a focus

The KILIMO-VC project seeks to explore and address some

on:

of the barriers to women’s participation,together with the question of access and control of resources. It provides

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Promoting environmentally sustainable farming

training both to farmers’ organisations and to community-

practices;

based organisations.

Participation of groups that are often excluded, including women and rural youth. They will have

KILIMO-VC is backed by contributions from international,

opportunities to participate, and profit from doing

public, private and civil society interests.The challenge fund

business across the value-chain through input supply,

is financed by the European Commission (90%), and by

production, processing, aggregation, marketing and

Slovak Aid and Self Help Africa (10%).

retail.

It is led and managed by Self Help Africa, with technical At the heart of the KILIMO-VC is an €18 million ‘Challenge

support from our partner, the consultancy firm, Imani

Fund’ which will be invested in supporting enterprise

Development Ltd. As part of a blended financing model, the

development projects.

programme supports challenge fund applicants to leverage investment from European Investment Bank (EIB) partner

The fund awards grants that need to be matched by the

institutions.

applicants, to support agri-businesses, NGOs and other entities to use market-based approaches to tackle particular development challenges.

The primary challenge is to increase the integration of smallscale farmers and semi-nomadic pastoralists, who are frequently excluded from agri-value chains. Business models have smallholders as suppliers of agri-products

• 100,000 total direct beneficiaries • 10,000 net equivalent jobs created • 50 agri-businesses supported (to increase turnover by at least 25%)

• 15 trade associations supported 4

THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: • 100,000 smallholders/pastoralists integrated in various agricultural value chains • Increased turnover by at least 25% for at least 50 agri-enterprises • 10,000 jobs created • 70% increase in smallholder/pastoralist production • At least 20,000 hectares under climate-smart land management practices • 15 trade associations strengthened • 600,000 livelihoods transformed

Technicians at a milk processing facility in Keringet, Kenya.

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CASSAVA AGGREGATION - SUPPORTING SMALLHOLDER AGRICULTURE AND VALUE ADDITION

KENYA PROGRAMMES

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Objective: Increased food and nutrition security, employment and income among 28,000 farming households.

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assava is increasingly promoted by the

harvesting and post-harvest handling, processing and

Government of Kenya due to its multiple uses as

storage.

flour, starch, and livestock feed, and its ability to

provide food throughout the year. However, it remains a

The project is also addressing capacity gaps among regular

largely underdeveloped sector and significant support is

cassava farmers, around knowledge of best-practice

required to enable smallholder farmers to increase their

cassava production. SHA and the Ministry of Agriculture,

incomes by capitalising upon growing demand.

Livestock and Fisheries, using the Lead Farmer and Farmer Field School approaches, are training Lead Farmers to

To this end, Self Help Africa (SHA) is leading a five-year

disseminate trainings to 28,000 smallholders (at least 60%

programme, funded primarily by the European Union,

women), organised into business groups. Farmers are

to strengthen the competitiveness of the cassava value

being trained on good agricultural practices and climate

chain in Kenya. Building on a previous work funded by the

smart agriculture, farming as a business; including farm and

Walmart Foundation and Irish Aid, which reached 12,000

market planning, enterprise profitability, quality standards,

households, the current project scales this to 28,000

aggregation, post-harvest management and value-addition.

farmers (including 60% women) in Western, Nyanza, Eastern and Coastal regions of Kenya. The programme

In line with the programme’s value chain approach, we are

is being implemented with local NGOs UCRC, RhEAL

investing in the development of cooperatives, which enable

Solutions and USTADI, TruTrade, and Rafiki Microfinance

farmers to bulk their produce, reduce input costs and

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provide marketing and market linkages. The cooperatives are also linked to financial institutions, in particular Rafiki

This project is facilitating the availability of quality-declared

Microfinance Bank, who provide working capital and

cassava planting material, working with the Kenya

support further expansion. The programme has also

Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)

supported Rafiki Microfinance Bank to develop suitable loan

to promote farmer production of quality cassava stems.

products for the different actors along the cassava value chain.

SHA is training seed producers on stem production, soil fertility, field management, pest and disease control,

Total direct beneficiaries: • 28,000 households

• 16,800 women

• 11,200 men

THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS: • 5,600 net equivalent jobs created • 23,800 cassava farmers linked to market opportunities • 100 aggregation centres supported • Building capacity of 14 MSMEs and cooperatives

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Pasiliano Omaseti , North Teso, Busia, 2018.

KENYA PROGRAMMES

Suzanna Omwango (52) with daughter Naomi (19).

Kamkuyu village, Migori County,.

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KERINGET COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

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YOUTH EMPOWERMENT IN KISUMU

Objective: to improve access of rural households to clean water and sanitation.

Objective: Increased access to employment opportunities for 200 youths.

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ocated in the fertile Rift Valley, the Keringet area is very rural and lacks basic infrastructure. Most of the population are subsistence farmers with low incomes.

In the neighbourhood of Kiptulwa, many households struggle

ost young people living in the informal settlements in Kisumu county have limited opportunities to access meaningful employment. Youth

Unemployment is high in Kisumu, due to the slowdown in

to access clean water for both household domestic needs

employment in the region and the lack of higher education,

and for livestock and agriculture, and so have to walk over

is one of the biggest issues facing youth in Kisumu and has

1km to fetch water from an unprotected source. The main

led to idleness, drug use and desperation among the youths

primary school in Kiptulwa has also been without proper

in Kisumu, especially those found in Kondele and Obunga

latrines or pumped, safe water for a number of years.

slums.

In partnership with a local Rotary club (Rotary Keringeta),

In partnership with Designer Group, an Irish construction

SHA is increasing access to clean, safe water and

and engineering company working in Kisumu on the East

encouraging good hygiene and sanitation practices

African Breweries site, SHA are creating opportunities for

among the community and primary school pupils. Local

200 youths (50% male, 50% female) living near the EAB site

water management committees have been set up in the

to develop basic entrepreneurial, financial literacy and life

community and the school and these committees have

skills over a 12 month period. A selection of the participants

helped to identify needs and appropriate sites for water

will also be afforded placement and internship opportunities

access points. Two boreholes will be drilled and equipped,

with Designer Group and other local businesses.

two springs rehabilitated, pumps installed and a water tank and tap provided at the school. Already, there are fewer

Further to this, the project will partner with local technical

incidences of diarrhoea and other water borne diseases.

institutions to create opportunities for 30 partial scholarships

Total direct beneficiaries: • 3,371 with increased access to clean water, sanitation and hygiene • 538 school children with access to WASH facilities at school

and internship opportunities in local cooperatives for young people.

Total direct beneficiaries: 200 youths (aged 18 to 34)

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KENYA 4th Floor, Bank of Africa House, Karuna Close, Off Waiyaki Way, Westlands, P. O. Box 14204, 00800 Nairobi.

E-mail: kenya@selfhelpafrica.org

June 2018

Suzanna Omwango (52), Kamkuyu village, Migori County Photo credit: Ken O’Halloran, 2015.

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