Somali

Date of Operation: 2005 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Tufts University

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia, and Somali

Goal:

Increased resilience to shocks and secure more sustainable livelihoods by policy planning and implementation for the Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative (PLI)

Project Objectives:

• Ensure technical coordination of PLI activities
• Systematic monitoring, impact assessment and research to inform policy development and best-practice guidelines in livestock developmental relief within pastoralist regions
• Institutionalize best practice development-relief interventions nationally and in selected pastoralist regions

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Date of Operation: 2007 – 2012

Primary Implementing Partner: World Health Organization (WHO)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Assist Ethiopia in reaching certification level for polio eradication.

Project Objectives:

• Achieve certification standards of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance at national and intermediary levels
• Assist with the timely response to any importation of the wild polio virus
• Continue implementing immunization campaigns to strengthen active and passive surveillance systems within the country

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Date of Operation: 2011 - 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children

Other Implementing Partners: Valid International, Tufts University, Land O’ Lakes, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, and at the national level

Goal:

Improve the nutritional status of women and young children through sustainable, comprehensive, and coordinated evidence-based interventions

Project Objectives:

• Strengthen the capacity and institutionalization of nutrition programs and policy
• Improve the quality and delivery of nutrition and health care services
• Improve prevention of under nutrition through community-oriented nutrition care and practices
• Adopt a rigorous and innovative learning agenda

Description:

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: United States Pharmacopeia

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Ensure that malaria patients in Ethiopia are prescribed with good quality, safe and efficacious malaria treatment

Objectives:

• Strengthen the capacity of the Food Medicine and Health Care Administration Control Authority (FMHACA ) and drug quality control laboratories
• Establishing drug quality monitoring and surveillance program within the FMHACA to ensure the quality and safety of medicines in Ethiopia

Description:

The Anti-malaria Drug Quality Control program assists in monitoring the quality of anti-malaria drugs found in the public and private sector in Ethiopia. It has implemented the Promoting Quality Medicines (PQM) program to achieve the programs objectives.

See also: Crosscutting Issues – Water

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Other Implementing Partner: CARE Ethiopia

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia, and Somali

Goal:

Improved access to clean and sustainable water sources for target communities in the Somali, Afar and Oromia Regions.

Project Objectives:

• Provide 146,000 people with access to water year round.
• Improve hygiene awareness and access to sanitation among beneficiaries
• Improve pastoral rangeland land management practices

Description:

Date of Operation: 2006 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Management Sciences for Health

Other Implementing Partners (within Partnership for Supply Chain Management (PFSCM) worldwide):  John Snow, Inc. Research and Training Institute (JSI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), 3i Infotech (3i), Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), Crown Agents (Crown), The Fuel Logistics Group (Pty) Limited (FUEL), i+ Solutions, The Manoff Group, Inc. (Manoff), Northrop Grumman Information Technology, UPS Supply Chain Solutions (UPS), Voxiva (Voxiva)

Other Implementing Partners within Ethiopia: USAID | DELIVER, CDC, Clinton Health Initiative (CHAI), Population Services International (PSI), Federal Ministry of Health Pharamaceutical Fund and Supply Agency, Federal Ministry of Health HAPPCO, EHNRI, Save the Children, WHO, UNICEF, WFP, World Vision, UNFPA

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: UNICEF

Other Implementing Partner(s): IntraHealth International

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

To mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS on children through improved Ethiopian systems and structures.

Objectives:

• Build the capacity of national government and key partners to appropriately respond to the social welfare needs of children
• Increase professional capacity, with specific focus on social work, within key national-level structures mandated with children
• Strengthen and increase data demand and use regarding status of vulnerable children and provision of services and support by supporting research and situation analysis, facilitating information exchange, providing monitoring and evaluation technical assistance and training, and documenting key lessons learned to enhance project implementation.

Description:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2015 Primary

Implementing Partner: Pact

Other Implementing Partner(s): FHI 360, ChildFund International (CFI), and numerous local NGOs

Regions of Operation: Nationwide in urban and semi-urban areas

Goal:

Improve well-being by strengthening care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children and their families or caretakers by strengthening systems and structures to deliver quality essential services and increase resiliency.

Objectives:

Date of Operation: 2008 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: African Network for Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Build capacity at primary health care level for providing quality comprehensive pediatric HIV treatment, care and support of HIV services.

Objectives:

• Strengthen technical capacity for improved delivery of pediatric HIV services at health center level through training of service providers
• Promote and support application of skills for delivery of quality and comprehensive pediatric HIV services through support supervision and clinical mentoring
• Facilitate decentralized pediatric HIV service delivery with appropriate resource materials
• Strengthen linkages between facility-based pediatric HIV and orphans and vulnerable children services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2012 – 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Other Implementing Partner(s): Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH), DAI, Helen Keller International (HKI), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Improve the quality, reach and impact of HIV services.

Project Objectives:

• Strengthen the quality and reach of nutrition care services for people living with HIV.
• Anti-retroviral treatment and care services

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