Water

• 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

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2013

Implementing Partners: American Council on Education (ACE)/Higher Education for Development (HED)

Other Implementing Partner: University of Connecticut and Alabama A&M University

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa

Goal:

Build the capacity in graduate-level education, research, community outreach, and institutional development in sustainable water resource management in Ethiopia.

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues – Water

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2012

Primary Implementing Partner: Lifewater International (LWI)

Other Implementing Partners: Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) Development and Social Services Commission

Regions of Operation: Oromiya

Goal:

• Improve health status, educational attainment, and gender equity among at-risk populations in the project areas

Project Objectives:

• Increase access to and use of safe drinking water
• Improve access to and use of improved sanitation facilities
• Increase community awareness of hygiene and sanitation principles
• Improve local capacity to develop and manage water and sanitation facilities

Description:

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:

See also: Crosscutting Issues – Water

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

To improve the health status and quality of life of over 900,000 beneficiaries in target communities in four regions.

Project Objectives:

• Improving the use of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices

Description:

See also: Crosscutting Issues, Central Contraceptive Procurement

Date of Operation: 2008 - 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Pathfinder International

Other Implementing Partners: John Snow Inc., Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA)

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Improve family health, especially for mothers, newborns, and children.

Project Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Pact Ethiopia

Other Implementing Partner(s): Kalem, Amhara Development Association, Oromia Development Association, Action for Development, Adult Non Formal Education Association in Ethiopia, Relief Society for Tigray (REST), and Bench Maji Development Association

Regions of Operation: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Oromia, SNNP, Somali and Tigray

Goal:

Increase access to education of both children and adults in disadvantaged areas and improve the capacity of woreda education officers in planning and managing non-formal education programs for pastoralists and remote communities.

Objectives: