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This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
USAID Provides Emergency Food Assistance to Ethiopia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 9, 2006
Press Office: 202-712-4320
Public Information: 202-712-4810
www.usaid.gov
Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced that it will provide $37 million in emergency food assistance to support World Food Program (WFP) operations in Ethiopia. The U.S. donation will help meet both current relief needs of the Ethiopian people and the needs of the beneficiaries of the Ethiopian Government's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP).
The U.S. donation comes in response to appeals by WFP, which says it needs additional food aid to help approximately three million people through December, 2006. The ongoing relief support in Ethiopia is compounded by flooding and the enduring needs in pastoral areas, where people continue to recover from this year's drought and require continued assistance to reclaim their livelihoods.
In 2007, U.S. contributions will provide direct food assistance to over three million Ethiopians through the PSNP.
With the announcement, USAID has donated approximately 244,240 metric tons of emergency food assistance, valued at almost $138 million, to support the WFP 2006 Humanitarian Appeal and the PSNP. In addition, USAID has committed more than $15.6 million in non-food emergency interventions.
"The U.S. Government remains committed to working in collaboration with other donors and the Government of Ethiopia to support programs that address the needs of the Ethiopian people," said U.S. Charge d' Affaires Ambassador Vicki Huddleston. "These important, life-saving efforts are a necessity to confront the food insecurity issue in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa."
The United States remains WFP's largest donor, providing over 40 percent of all contributions received by WFP worldwide and half of all contribution to WFP's 2006 appeal for Ethiopia.
"Donor countries and other partners must come to the table to support these important, life-saving efforts that are attacking food insecurity in a predictable way to enable transformational change," said Huddleston.
For more information about USAID programs in Ethiopia, visit our web site at http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/countries/ethiopia/index.html.
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