Feed the Future Initiative

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)

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Date of Operation: 2011 - 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Chemonics International Inc

Other Implementing Partners: Evidence for Development (EfD), Action Against Hunger-UK (ACF), and Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd. (OSC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Kimetrica

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.

Description:

Lifting Livelihoods with Livestock

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07/06/2012
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A review of REST’s livestock value addition practices in Raya Azebo, Ethiopia and potentials for diversification by Yacob Aklilu. From November 2011.
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Government of Ethiopia, USAID, World Food Program and PepsiCo Launch Ethiopea Chickepea Project: During the Grow Africa/World Economic Forum in Addis Ababa on May 9, 2012

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05/09/2012

The Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) Ministries of Health and Agriculture and Agriculture Transformation Agency, PepsiCo Inc., the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the UN World Food Program (WFP) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)* to support a new EthioPEA Alliance  This public-private collaboration will seek to expand Ethiopia’s potential to be an international source of chickpeas for export while increasing the availability of nutritious food domestically.

The EthioPEA Alliance aims to address constraints and build capacity throughout the chickpea value chain.  It will seek to foster economic growth and improve the availability and affordability of nutritious, locally sourced food products, including chickpea-based ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF), for low-income populations as well as others in Ethiopia and in export markets. Ethiopia is uniquely suited to launch such an initiative as it is already the continent's largest producer of chickpea and the sixth largest producer in the world.

Milk Matters: The Impact of Dry Season Livestock Support on Milk Supply and Child Nutrition in Somali Region, Ethiopia

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Date Published: 
06/25/2012
Abstract: 
The Impact of Dry Season Livestock Support on Milk Supply and Child Nutrition in Somali Region, Ethiopia. From May 2012.
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Joint Emergency Operations Program (JEOP)

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Date of Operation: 2008 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Other Implementing Partners: CARE, Food for the Hungry International (FHI), Hararghe Catholic Secretariat, Relief Society of Tigray (REST), Save the Children (SC), World Vision International (WVI)

Regions of Operation: Afar, Amhara, Dire Dawa, Oromiya, Somali, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Address the food needs of drought-affected populations

Project Objectives:

  • Undertake periodic assessments to determine people suffering from transitory food insecurity
  • Provide survival ration of food to people in need
  • Prevent further depletion of household assets
  • Reduce distress migration of an affected population

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Livelihoods Integration Unit: Enhancing Livelihoods Application (LIU-ELA)

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Date of Operation: 2012 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Kimetrica

Other Implementing Partner(s): Ministry of Agriculture Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Provide support to the Government of Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) to improve its capacity to anticipate and manage shocks and disasters in a timely manner.

Project Objectives:

  • Provide input to the Productive Safety Net Program risk-financing process
  • Assist the Government of Ethiopia in tracking and reporting on trends in rural incomes
  • Build the capacity of federal and regional government officials on the use of new and existing analytical tools for early warning and disaster risk preparedness and including integration of improved climate change decision-making models

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Development Credit Authority (DCA)

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See also: USAID DCA Overview

Date of Operation: 2004 – 2020

Primary Implementing Partner: Bank of Abyssinia, NIB International Bank, Zemen Bank

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Encourage growth of the private sector and microenterprises by improving access to finance and credit for underserved populations.

Project Objectives:

  • Increase access to short-term marketing credit and medium-term investment capital for women, diaspora and local entrepreneurs engaged in small and medium business activities in the agriculture and health sectors.

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