Self Help Africa Global Strategy (2023-27) - Abridged Version

SELF HELP AFRICA STRATEGY 2023 – 2027 SYNOPSIS Sustainability and resilience in a changing climate

Partner Africa

Self Help Africa merged with United Purpose in 2021. The strategy is a shared plan for the next five years, as the organisations move to becoming one team with a shared mission and vision. Part of this process will be rebranding to Self Help Africa.

OUR VISION Sustainable livelihoods and healthy lives for all in a changing climate.

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We aim to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change through community-led, market-based and COLOU S enterprise-focused approaches, people OUR so Rthat have access to nutritious food, clean water, decent employment and incomes, while sustaining natural resources.

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We are inclusive, honest and have integrity in our relationships.

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State of Paraiba

SENEGAL AND THE GAMBIA GUINEA

UGANDA KENYA RWANDA, BURUNDI MALAWI

North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, DRC

BURKINA FASO NIGERIA State of Paraiba

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North Kivu and South Kivu provinces, DRC

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UGANDA KENYA MOZAMBIQUE RWANDA, BURUNDI MALAWI

Mission: We aim to alleviate hunger, poverty, social inequality and the impact of climate change through community-led, market-based and enterprise-focused localisation, approaches, and community-led so that and people market-basedhave approaches. ensure access toWe nutritious people have access to safe nutritious food, clean water, decent food, water, decent employment and employment and incomes, incomes, without degrading their natwhile sustaining natural ural resources. We doresources this from fragile

2023-2027 Strategy: OUR What we will do WORK

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e alleviate hunger and poverty through economic and social change to create sustainable livelihoods and healthy lives. This is underpinned by a commitment to

1. Agriculture and food systems We consider agriculture key to reducing hunger poverty in rural areas and to driving growth that prioritises the poorest. It is fundamental to the sustainable food systems we promote, which are required to address chronic undernutrition and deliver healthy, safe and affordable diets in rural and urban areas.

OUR EXPERTISE

People, especially women, must also have the resources and agency to make positive decisions about their diet and lives.

To ensure food systems are sustainable, those involved in producing and processing food must enjoy decent and safe employment and incomes. Communities must be able to address their own development needs through bottom-up, decentralised community-led planning.

Sustainable landscapes, resilient food systems and healthy communities

Sustainable businesses decent employment an thriving economies

contexts through to emerging economies. We also seek to drive social change through policy and advocacy System strengthening Crisis work that engages institutions and andthe an enabling polic response and environment wider public in our countries of operaresilience tion and globally.

MARKET SYSTEMS, BUSINESS SUPPORTS AND SERVICES

SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY

AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

WASH AND WASTE MANAGEMENT

CORE EXPERTISE CLIMATE ADAPTATION

SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES

WIDER EXPERTISE GREEN ENERGY, CARBON AND CLIMATE FINANCE

3. Climate adaptation

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2. Sustainable landscapes

All of our work is designed and implemented through MARKET-BASED ANDanENTERPRISE-FOC environmental, sustainability and climate adaptation lens Where we work, land is primarily used for agriculture and its GENDER SOCIALthe INCLUSION, as we believe this is essential to AND achieving global UNAND COHESION success is dependent on a healthy ecosystem.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Climate Smart AgriEMERGING TECHNOLOGIES culture and agro-ecology approaches are central to all our Economies highly reliant on natural resources, such as many workPARTNERSHIP supporting sustainable agricultural development. Our in sub-Saharan Africa, are effectively trapped in a vicious agriculture interventions are designed to achieve ecological cycle in which increasing demand on natural resources EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH-BASED intensification of production systems while increasing the contributes to poor and unsustainable management of the climate resilience of farmers and food systems at large. same, leading to their further depletion. We will continue to build resilient ecosystems and landscapes for sustainable This serves to promote the sequestration of carbon in soils livelihoods and job creation. and biomass. An increase in climate finance and opportunities for funding and investment from a range of actors will help ensure landscapes remain a public good.

OUR APPROACH

OUR ENABLERS

Financing models and funding

Transplanting of agroforestry and fruit trees, Hamukaka, Lake Bunyoni, Uganda

Strategic objectives 2023 - 2027

Synergies, organisation development and alignment

Community-led approach

Culture, people and resourcing

Demonstrating impact

We are passionate about supporting communities to determine their own lives, enabled by strong and accountable government services, and effective local markets and value chains. We do this through a community-led systems approach, which is further bolstered by Partner Africa’s work to improve the lives of vulnerable workers and producers engaged in international supply chains.

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STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES Achieving our strategic objectives will help ensure the delivery of Self Help Africa’s Mission from 2023-2027. The metrics are designed to be clear and measurable indicators of success; the actions outline how these strategic objectives will be met.

AREAS OF STRATEGIC FOCUS

SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES, RESILIENT FOOD SYSTEMS & HEALTHY COMMUNITIES STRATEGIC FOCUS Sustainable landscapes, Sustainable businesses, Crisis resilient food systems and decent employment and response and BUSINESSES, SO2 healthy communities SUSTAINABLE thriving economies resilience DECENT EMPLOYMENT & CUS THRIVING ECONOMIES

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Sustainable businesses, decent employment and thriving economies

Crisis response and resilience

System strengthening and an enabling policy environment

Synergies, group System strengthening

Culture, people

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Contribute to the equitable stewardship of ecosystems for well-functioning food and water systems, ecosystem services, human well-being and quality of life.

System strengthening

Support the of inclusive, profitable and and an growth enabling policy environment sustainable businesses that provide services and decent employment for communities.

Support communities to prepare effectively for and respond to chronic and acute humanitarian shocks.

Demonstrating

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