Thousands Access Cleaner Energy through Malawi Subsidy Programme 

Self Help AfricaMalawi, News

Tens of thousands of families in rural Malawi are enjoying cleaner and more reliable energy to light their homes and cook meals through a Self Help Africa energy project in partnership with GIZ EnDev and CUMO Microfinance.

The €3.5 million DSS-RBF project (short for demand-side subsidies results-based financing) offered financial subsidies to low-income rural households so that they could purchase solar home systems and improved cookstoves for less. The project focused on selling stoves and solar items at a lower costs to families.

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WASH Systems for Health Programme: Self Help Africa Showcases Two Years of Outcomes and Learning

Self Help AfricaNews, Nigeria

The WASH Systems for Health (WS4H) National Outcomes and Learning Workshop, organised by Self Help Africa and funded by the UK International Development from the UK Government, provided a platform to reflect on two years of implementation of the WASH Systems for Health programme (WS4H) in Cross River and Kano States, share evidence of what has worked, discuss implementation challenges, and identify opportunities to strengthen and scale systems-based approaches across Nigeria’s WASH sector.

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International Women’s Day Webinar 2026: In Review

Self Help AfricaNews

The sixth annual webinar, held under the UN International Women’s Day theme ‘Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls’, was moderated by Self Help Africa CEO Niamh De Loughry,  and featured contributions from women in Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Malawi, and Ireland who are engaged in academia, agriculture, policy and activism.

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Drought Recovery Project Focused on Women

Self Help AfricaNews, Zambia

Self Help Africa is working with tens of thousands of people in a region that has the lowest rainfall in Zambia, to help farming households rebuild their lives and ensure they are more resilient to future weather shocks.

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