AFRICANDEVELOPMENT TRUST

2015 ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTAFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT)

Reg. Charity No: 1157822

Contents:Table of content 2

Message from Chair and Executive Director 3

Structure, governance and management 4

Achievements and performance: 5

• Ourstrategy 5

Protectinglifeanddignity: 6

Empowering Communities: 7

• Improvingfoodsecurity: 7

• Enterpriseprojectsforwomen: 7

• ImprovingHealthServices: 7

• PromotingEducation: 7

Campaigning for change: 9

• Eradicatingglobalhungerandpoverty: 9

• MentalhealthservicesinKashmir: 9

• Protectingchildren’srights: 9

Support for our programmes: 10

• FundraisingandvolunteeringintheUK: 10

Ourkeypartners: 10

Income and expenditure: 11

• Wherethemoneywespentwent: 11

• Financialreview: 12

• Charitableexpenditure: 12

• Fundraising: 12

• IndependentExaminer’sReporttotheTrusteesofAfricanDevelopmentTrust(ADT): 13

• AfricanDevelopmentTrust(ADT)StatementofFinancialActivitiesandIncomeandExpenditure: 14

• FinancialStatement: 15

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Message from Chair and Executive Director Assalamu Allaikum,

Peace be upon you all,

In 2015, African Development Trust (ADT) served as many people as usual in poverty relief. This past year ADT adopted to bring about lasting change in new and innovative ways, and to minimise the impact disruption in disaster areas in Africa. As you will read in this report, we are continuously pushing ourselves to strengthen the impact and effectiveness of our work.

The humanitarian needs that continues to unfold in particularly in Somalia every year remains our greatest challenge. Working deep inside Southern Somalia, Sierra Leone, Djibouti and Eritrea, our emergency aid reached more than 77,000 people in these four countries. Our orphan welfare project in Somalia reached 345, fully sponsored. The devastation caused by recurrent drought and violence in Somalia caused us to send out more aid to Somalia.

In 2015, we aligned more of our international programmes to an integrated sustainable development model. We also delivered innovative programmes that included tackling poverty and child labour and providing access to education for orphans, provision of wheelchairs for disabled people and skill and human rights training to vulnerable young women and men in Somalia.

The financial statements included within this annual report include the income, expenditure, assets and liabilities of the UK registered charity African Development Trust (ADT). It does not reflect the full extent of the activities of African Development Trust (ADT). Despite the decrease of income compared the year before, ADT managed to discharge its responsibilities and served the poor in Africa. This helped to cement African Development Trust (ADT)’s place as one of the impactful organisation in Africa.

Beyond all of this, we were also pleased to note growth in many of our projects in 2015. Worthy to note is helping the poor with disability with wheelchairs and human rights and peace building for youth, whose trainees number were over 30 youths. We expect this trend to continue.

We remain mindful of our humble beginnings and our values, rooted in the teachings of the humanity and ICRC Code of Conduct that calls us to restore a dignity that God gave to the children of Adam. We thank our dedicated staff, our selfless volunteers for all their efforts, our generous donors for their on-going support, and to all those with whom we worked in partnership to reduce poverty and suffering in Africa.

Ali Ahmed Wardere Trustee Chairman

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Structure, governance and management

• BoardofTrustees

Company directors – also known as trustees - make up our Board of Trustees, which directs and controls the organisation. The Board of Trustees sets our future aims and priorities, focussing on strategic planning and governance, and also evaluates our performance and progress in our work in poverty relief and suffering.

The Board of Trustees appraises the Executive management team – made up of the Managing Director (MD) and Board of Directors. Trustees make appointments to these positions as well as dismissals. The Board of Trustees also makes sure that we satisfy the regulatory requirements on us as a charity, and works with key stakeholders.

• Recruitingand appointingoftrustees

All of our trustees are volunteers, chosen because they have the diverse range of skills, knowledge and experience that we need to respond to the challenges of today. Stakeholders and partners may nominate trustee(s), and sometimes we will make a personal approach to potential candidates.

• Welcomingand trainingtrustees

We support new trustees in understanding the Board’s role, and make sure they have the information that they need to carry out their duties. This includes giving them a full overview of our strategic and operational functions, as well as a comprehensive welcome pack which includes a copy of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, the financial statements, board minutes and the Charity Commission guidance ‘The Essential Trustee’, as well as recent publications.

Our MD keeps trustees up-to-date about changes in regulatory standards and training possibilities, and we continually evaluate the Board’s effectiveness. We provide the Board of Trustees with regular reports on our performance, as well as our annual financial reports, and plans and budgets. The Board of Trustees also approves relevant new policies and procedures.

• Keypersonnel

The MD is accountable to the Board of Trustees and – along with other senior staff – is responsible for our day-to-day management. The MD chairs the Management Team (staff). Staff and volunteers make sure that the policies laid down by the Board of Trustees are implemented, and they also support the work of other staff and volunteers.

• GoverningDocument

African Development Trust (ADT) refers to the charity registered with the Charity Commission of England and Wales with a governing document known as Article of Association dated on 14th day of February 2014. ADT’s sole objects are ‘helping poor, sick and needy’.

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• Objectivesandactivities

The overarching aim of African Development Trust (ADT) is to provide relief of poverty in any part of the world. Inspired by value of humanity, we envisage a caring world where communities are empowered, social obligations are fulfilled and people respond as one to the suffering of others. We aim to do this through our relief, development and advocacy work with vulnerable communities around the world - regardless of race, political affiliation, gender or belief and without expecting anything in return.

Our mission is to mobilise resources, build partnerships and develop local capacity, as we work to:

• Enablecommunitiestomitigatetheeffectofdisasters,preparefor their occurrence and respond by providing relief, protection and recovery.

• Promoteintegrateddevelopmentandenvironmentalcustodianship with a focus on sustainable livelihoods.

• Supportthemarginalisedandvulnerabletovoicetheirneedsandaddress the root causes of poverty.

Achievements and performance:Ourstrategy

Our ambitious Global Strategy 2011-15 sets out how we are putting our faith into action to secure the greatest possible positive impact on the people we serve. We are guided by the timeless values and teachings of Humanity, with challenging aims designed to facilitate real social change. In addition, we are also fulfilling a set of core promises throughout our work:

• Strengthening localcapacity:

We empower communities to manage their own affairs, and develop the capacity of civil society itself.

• Protectingchildren:

We mainstream child protection and ensure that our programmes are child-focussed.

• Gendersensitivity:

We believe that gender equality benefits humanitarianism and we develop distinctive, practical approaches to address the key issues that are affecting women in our impact areas.

• Protecting theenvironment:

We promote climate change adaptation as well as initiatives to safeguard the environment from further harm.

As we approach the end of our current strategy, this Annual Report reflects on our progress in achieving our aims.

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Aimone: Protectinglifeanddignity

For around a decade, African Development Trust (ADT) has provided a lifeline for communities impacted by disasters. In 2015, major emergency programmes included delivering life-saving aid to more than 77,000 people inside conflict and drought affected people in Somalia, Kenya, Eritrea Djibouti and Sierra Leone. Our emergency teams also provided much-needed food and water to more than 16,000 people in the four countries.

In addition, we continued to empower vulnerable communities to protect themselves from the impact of disasters.

Aimtwo: Empoweringcommunities

As we increased our focus on integrated sustainable development in 2015, we improved the lives of some of the poorest people in Africa. Communities benefitted from enhanced access to essential services including healthcare, water, sanitation, and education. We increased food security in Somalia by enabling communities to develop sustainable livelihoods that protect natural resources. Women headed households received income support to help themselves and educate their children.

Aimthree: Campaigningforchange

We continued to drive positive change and social justice for people in Africa in 2015. We participated in mobilising communities to call for action on world hunger. In addition, we worked with vulnerable communities across east Africa region to achieve positive change on key issues including mental health and child protection.

Protecting life and dignity: Responding to disasters and reducing their impact.

African Development Trust (ADT) has been responding to emergencies for a decade and every year, we increase the work we do to protect those living in high-risk areas. In 2015, we continued to provide a lifeline for vulnerable communities affected by disaster and poverty in Africa. Responding to disasters and reducing their impact.

Somalia: As drought and violent conflict in Somalia raged for decades and decades, we continued to provide a humanitarian lifeline for those suffering in one of the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Working deep inside southern Somalia, we delivered essential items such as food and non food items to help 33,000 people and also over 16,000 vulnerable people also benefited from African Development Trust (ADT) program of WASH. In addition, ADT has supported 630 HHs of Somali returnees from Yemen and Yemeni refugees who fled to Puntland with food supplies, and emergency health services.

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Kenya: Recurrent drought raged the north eastern part of Kenya almost every year. ADT continued to provide relief food to those affected in north-eastern part of the country. To protect life and dignity ADT has provided relief food to over 24,350 people in Mandera and Wajir districts in Kenya.

Djibouti: Recurrent drought raged Djibouti and neighbouring countries every year. ADT continued to provide relief food to those affected particularly Somalis and Ethiopian refugees in camps in Djibouti. ADT program has provided relief food to over 10,200 people in El-Ade camp in Djibouti.

Eritrea: The regime in Eritrea is totalitarian controlling everything and banned Aid agencies to operate in the country. This exacerbated the emergency situation in the country where many poor families are left alone. ADT in collaboration with our local partners continued to provide relief food to those affected. ADT program has provided relief food to over 9,500 people in Asmara.

SierraLeone: Recurrent drought and Ebola which raged the country made many people in destitution. ADT continued to provide relief food to those affected in the country. To protect life and dignity ADT has provided relief food to over 1,350 people in Free Town.

Empowering Communities: Promoting development and sustainable livelihoods

Every year, our development programmes around African continent help poor communities to improve their lives. Our sustainable development projects give people the opportunity to lift themselves out of thirsty and poverty through improving their livelihoods and giving them access to better essential services.

• Improvingfoodsecurity:

Africa is one of the world’s poorest continents due to conflicts, corruption and poor governance; we are reducing dependency on humanitarian aid by improving food security. In Somalia we support and sponsor 345 orphans whom we provide regular income support to their families every month. Similarly, our Widow Food Parcel Project supports more than 400 HHs every year. In addition, ADT is part of Feed Our World (FOW) led by Penny Appeal International where ADT implements in Somalia, Djibouti and Eritrea every year. ADT‘s FOW programs supports 360 HHs or 2,160 people in the three countries. Furthermore, many families benefited from our seasonal and ritual projects such Qurbani, Iftar and zakat fitr.

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• Trainingyouthon HumanRights:

Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of being human. These are called “human rights,” rather than a privilege, which can be taken away at someone’s whim. Every person is entitled to these certain rights—simply by the fact that they are a human being. To promote human rights, peace building and protect vulnerable youth from extremist ADT in collaboration with the UNSOM Human Rights office in Somalia have established youth cluster of 28 groups who are now part of the national election monitoring system. ADT and UNSOM have trained 33 of these youth groups on human rights and peace building.

• PromotingEducation:

Given, situation in Somalia it is very difficult, poor and struggling families - particularly those lost the father or mother- to send their children to school. Under the motto education is the only way out of poverty, ADT sponsored 345 orphans in Somalia who all of them go to schools. The fruits of the project are feasible now where the first orphans are successfully finishing secondary schools.

• Promotionsportinpoor communitiesinSomalia

Sport is one of the power full tools that contribute in unity, peace building and communities cohesions. To encourage youngsters in IDP camps in Somalia to participate in sport, ADT supported 5 teams in IDP camps and schools in Mogadishu with quality sport T-shirts donated by our donors in UK. The support has motivated the teams in the city where we have now greater demands for similar support.

• Empoweringpoorand disabledpeople

The number of disabled people is in surge in Somalia due to endless political violence in the country. These disabled people are poor and neglected living in abandoned government buildings. Most of these disabled people beg for their life and get sporadic hand outs from charities and Diaspora groups. Witnessed their poor situation, ADT has donated 33 new wheel chairs to those live in Martini hospital. This support will enable them to move out of the hospital to reach out people and put forward their problems and cases to the concerned bodies.

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Campaigning for change: A force for social justice

We work to tackle the root causes of poverty and suffering in Africa, in accordance with the prophetic example of speaking out against injustice. This year, our challenging advocacy and campaigning efforts gave vulnerable and marginalised communities a voice, and were an active force for positive change.

• Eradicatingglobalhungerandpoverty

We threw our weight behind a global day of action on hunger, delivered as part of our work through the ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ partnership. We participated to mobilise communities in Somalia, Kenya and the UK to lobby for action to address this global food crisis, poverty and suffering of the poor in which over 200 children die from malnutrition every hour. The UK government committed to spending on life-changing aid the countries in the region.

• WHSummitGlobalConsultation:

The United Nations Secretary-General called for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, which will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 23 and 24 May 2016. As part of the consultation process, ADT has actively participated in the World Humanitarian Summit (WHSUMMIT) global consultation which was held in Geneva, Switzerland, from 14 to 16 October 2015. The conference which ADT was represented by the Managing Director highlighted five key action areas of dignity, safety, resilience, partnerships and finance. The conference brought together 1,201 participants from 153 countries, United Nations agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and organisations.

• Protectingchildren’srights

Somalia is one of the most dangerous places to live in particularly children. We advocate for the welfare of children from hazardous labour and abuse in Somalia. Here, poverty and violence has pushed many children to destitution, out of school and labour, with risks to their physical and mental development. Our orphan welfare project enabled scores of children to escape dangerous labour and abuses. Through the scheme of sponsorship and income support to the families, they accessed education, as well as support to set up alternative ways of earning a living.

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Support for our programmes: Working hard to raise funds for humanitarian programmes

FundraisingandvolunteeringintheUK

2015 was a busy and productive year for African Development Trust (ADT) in the United Kingdom. We focused on raising funds for a number of emergencies, drought and water shortages in Africa, Sierra Leone and Yemeni refugees in Puntland which affected thousands of people.

Volunteers are at the heart of our work, sacrificing their time, finances and energy. This year, they held collections in many mosques, hosted Iftar dinners throughout Ramadan, and organised several bazaars and family fun days.

At African Development Trust (ADT), we believe that everyone can be a change-maker. Our UK-based campaigning and advocacy work in 2015 included calling on supporters to lobby and urge tackling of hunger poverty and emergencies in Africa. African Development Trust (ADT) supported the initiative ‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ of UK charity organisations – a movement which pushed wealthier governments to change the policies that are keeping almost one billion people hungry around the world.

Our key partners:

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Income and expenditure

Sources of Fund:

Where the money we spent went

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Financialreview

Total income from resources of £145,820 reached the accounts of African Development Trust (ADT) in 2015. Despite the decrease of income reaching African Development Trust (ADT), it was a successful financial year for African Development Trust (ADT). We saw significant increase of income reaching African Development Trust (ADT) directly from donor organisations. We expect this trend to continue, especially as more of fund raising activities will be applied, in the areas where the work matters most.

Charitableexpenditure

Despite this, we continued to reach those who needed our help. Our charitable expenditure was at 116 per cent of our funding base (£145,820). Empowering Communities and Protecting Life and Dignity (emergency) programmes continues to be where we use the greatest proportions of funds, representing approximately 40 per cent and 30 Percent respectively of total fund expenditure. Continuing to support these vital programmes, alongside our work to care for orphaned and vulnerable children as well as our sustainable livelihoods programmes was very important.

Fundraising

Voluntary income - which includes regular giving, campaign and appeal income - decreased slightly. This is a result of lower-profile fund raising activities and emrgencies in east Africa as compared to last year, and the absence of aid match from the donors. However, throughout the challenging economic climate, our UK individual donors donated even more generously. This made voluntary income 20 per cent of our total income for the year.

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INDEPENDENTEXAMINERS’SREPORTTOTHETRUSTEESOFAFRICANDEVELOPMENTTRUST(ADT)

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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST (ADT) STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES AND INCOME AND EXPENDITURE (for the year ended 21st March 2016)

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Financial Statement (as at 21st March 2016)

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AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT TRUST8A Rock Street, London, N4 2DN. Tel: 02073543355. Email: info@africandt.org www.africandt.orgReg. Charity No: 1157822