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Self Help Africa, the Glossary

Self Help Africa is an international charity that promotes and implements long-term rural development projects in Africa.^[1]

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Development charities based in the Republic of Ireland
International development in Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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Belfast (from Béal Feirste) is the capital city and principal port of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan and connected to the open sea through Belfast Lough and the North Channel.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.

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Bob Geldof

Robert Frederick Zenon Geldof (born 5 October 1951) is an Irish singer-songwriter and political activist.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.

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Charity shop

A charity shop (British English), thrift shop or thrift store (American English and Canadian English, also includes for-profit stores such as Savers) or opportunity shop or op-shop (Australian English and New Zealand English) is a retail establishment run by a charitable organization to raise money.

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Climate change adaptation

Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change.

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Climate-smart agriculture

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (or climate resilient agriculture) is a set of farming methods that has three main objectives with regards to climate change.

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Dóchas

Dóchas ("hope") is the network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in development and relief overseas and development education in Ireland.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara) is a department of the Government of Ireland.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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Effects of climate change

Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Food and Agriculture Organization

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.

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Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; Cumann Lúthchleas Gael; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, Gaelic handball, and rounders.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

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Global North and Global South

Global North and Global South are terms that denote a method of grouping countries based on their defining characteristics with regard to socioeconomics and politics.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole.

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International non-governmental organization

An international non-governmental organization (INGO) is an organization which is independent of government involvement and extends the concept of a non-governmental organization (NGO) to an international scope.

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Irish Aid

Irish Aid (Cúnamh Éireann) is the Government of Ireland's official international development aid programme.

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Irish Farmers' Association

The Irish Farmers' Association (IFA) (Irish: Feirmeoirí Aontaithe na hÉireann) is a national organisation to represent the interests of all sectors of farming in the Republic of Ireland.

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Irish Forum for International Agricultural Development

The Irish Forum for International Agricultural Development (IFIAD) was established in early 2016 as a platform to share knowledge and good practices in agriculture for the benefit of international development.

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Irish language

Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.

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Irish National Teachers' Organisation

The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) (Cumann Múinteoirí Éireann), founded in 1868, is the oldest and largest teachers' trade union in Ireland.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Mary Robinson

Mary Therese Winifred Robinson (Máire Mhic Róibín;; born 21 May 1944) is an Irish politician who served as the seventh president of Ireland, holding the office from December 1990 to September 1997.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Microfinance

Microfinance is a of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services.

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Nairobi

Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Niall O'Brien (priest)

Niall O'Brien (2 August 1939 in Dublin, Ireland – 27 April 2004 in Pisa, Italy) was an Irish Columban missionary priest, notable for being falsely accused of and detained in the Philippines in the 1980s on charges of multiple murder.

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Olivier De Schutter

Olivier De Schutter (born 20 July 1968) is a Belgian legal scholar specialising in economic and social rights.

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Potato

The potato is a starchy root vegetable native to the Americas that is consumed as a staple food in many parts of the world.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Rural development

Rural development is the process of improving the quality of life and economic well-being of people living in rural areas, often relatively isolated and sparsely populated areas.

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Self Help Africa

Self Help Africa is an international charity that promotes and implements long-term rural development projects in Africa. Self Help Africa and Self Help Africa are development charities based in the Republic of Ireland and international development in Africa.

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Shrewsbury

("May Shrewsbury Flourish") --> Shrewsbury is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Shropshire, England.

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Teagasc

Teagasc (meaning "Instruction") is the semi-state authority in the Republic of Ireland responsible for research and development, training and advisory services in the agri-food sector.

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The Irish Times

The Irish Times is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication.

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Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa.

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Tom Kitt (politician)

Tom Kitt (born 11 July 1952) is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food

The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food is a Special Rapporteur appointed by the United Nations, who reports on the right to food.

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United Purpose

United Purpose, formerly known as Concern Universal, is an international development and emergency relief organization that works in a number of the poorest countries of the world to assist in finding local, sustainable solutions to poverty and inequality.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Help_Africa

Also known as Gorta, Gorta-Self Help Africa, Self Help Development International.

, Uganda, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, United Purpose, United States Agency for International Development, World Food Day, Zambia, 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia.

Self Help Africa, the Glossary

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See also

Development charities based in the Republic of Ireland

International development in Africa

References