Oromiya

Date of Operation: 2012 - 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: Research Triangle Institute International (RTI)

Other Implementing Partners: Save the Children, SIL Lead, Inc., Florida State University (FSU), Inveneo, WhizKidz, and Visions in Action

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal: Improve reading comprehension and writing proficiency in primary schools as the foundation for future learning, covering seven of the major Ethiopian languages and English

Objectives:

• Improve livestock and livestock products marketing systems
• Enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change
• Increase and diversify household assets of chronically food insecure and vulnerable populations through livelihood diversification and long-term market linkages

• Improve animal feed systems
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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.

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Date of Operation: 2012 - 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: MASHAV: Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation

Regions of operation:  Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray

Goal:

Promote economic growth of small-scale horticulture holders by strengthening the commercial viability of fruit and vegetable production.

Project Objectives:

• Develop a competitive and sustainable horticulture sector
• Provide a technical and financial support to improve technologies that have a potential to increase production and productivity
• Create quality standards that increase farmers’ and national foreign exchange income

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Date of Operation: 2012-2017

Primary Implementing Partner: World Learning and Population Services International (PSI)

Other Implementing Partner(s): EngenderHealth, Ethiopian Public Health Association, Handicap International

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Dire Dawa, Gambella, Harari, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Contribute to the national target of reducing new HIV infections by 50% by 2014

Objectives:

• Prevent new HIV infections by reducing behavioral risk factors among most-at-risk populations (MARPs) and other highly vulnerable populations
• Strengthen community level systems and structures to support combination prevention
• Increase the capacity of GoE to lead HIV prevention interventions that are based on the local epidemiology of new infections
• Forecast the need for and strengthen HIV prevention endeavors in selected large-scale workplaces

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Date of Operation: 2007 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Justice for All - Prison Fellowship Ethiopia

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Benishangul, Gambela, Oromia, Somali and Tigray

Goal:

Deter human rights abuses and strengthen the administration of justice nationwide

Objectives:

• Training for federal and regional court and police officials in international and national human rights law and institutional administrative regulations
• Strengthen dialogue between relevant justice sector actors and stakeholders
• Assist with the design and implementation of justice sector reforms based on international best practice.

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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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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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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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