OUTREACH
The SHDI/Baraka partnership
 Since
1997 Self Help Development International (SHDI) have been working
in Kenya indirectly through support provided to Baraka Agricultural
College. With Baraka as it’s local partner and using a people
centred bottom-up approach, successful projects have been implemented
in Lare and Kamara divisions of Nakuru District. Currently Baraka
Agricultural College run an area-based programme in two Divisions:
Kamara in Nakuru District and Tenges in Baringo District.
The aim of this area based programme is to promote the integrated
development of the two divisions through the promotion of sustainable
agriculture and rural development. The methodology used is bottom–up
based on a participatory action research (PAR) approach. The programme
also feeds into other college programmes and provides a very useful
training ground for students and staff.
The programme is implemented in partnership with the Ministries
of Agriculture and Livestock and other development agencies working
in the divisions. Demand driven service delivery is encouraged and
emphasized in all stages. The main components of the programme include:
soil fertility, crop and livestock production, natural resource
management, health, and local capacity building that includes: savings
and credit, group development, youth, women empowerment, marketing
promotion and institutional capacity building.
More about Kamara and
Tenges outreach programme.
Baraka beekeeping development unit
SHDI is also providing support to the Baraka Beekeeping Development
Unit (BDU) which runs a beekeeping outreach project in five districts
of Rift Valley province namely; Baringo, Bomet, Kericho, Nakuru,
and Koibatek districts. The project promotes beekeeping as a viable
and potentially lucrative enterprise. Support from SHDI to the Baraka
Agricultural College projects will continue as an important component
of the new SHDI country programme.
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about the BDU
Youth development programme
Baraka Rural Youth Development Programme include working with
CSARD and DSARD students, youth in the Area Based Programme divisions
of Kamara and Tenges and through BACOSA.
More
about youth programme
HIV/AIDS mainstreaming programme
Baraka Agricultural College mainstreams HIV/AIDS in all its programmes.
Strategies being used include education and advocacy. Information
resource centre establishment, workplace policy on HIV/AIDS, incorporating
HIV/AIDS in all trainings, developing a youth pilot project on care
and support, support to health clinics and complementary partnership
Sustainable Development can only be achieved through a holistic
approach, without underestimating the pervasive effects that could
be caused by HIV/AIDS, both on the institution and the community
being served.
SHDI’s work in other parts of Africa
Since its foundation twenty two years ago, SHDI has implemented
a large number of long term projects in Ethiopia, Eriteria, Malawi
and Uganda. The main emphasis has been on assisting rural communities
in Africa achieve self-sufficiency in food production and ensuring
sustainability. Self Help and supporters have made a major contribution
to the lives of over 1.5 million people in rural communities across
Africa. This has largely been due to its commitment to building
partnership with local communities as a core principle of development.
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