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Ethiopia
>> Regional Overview >> Ethiopia Overview Program Data Sheet
663-007
USAID MISSION: Ethiopia
PROGRAM TITLE: Food Security (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Rural Household Production and Productivity Increased, 663-007
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $3,582,000 DA; $1,000,000 CSH
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $4,518,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2001 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2007Summary: The program focuses on improving rural household food security in Ethiopia and includes the following five components:
- increase food, livestock and factor market integration;
- increase agricultural input and output market competition;
- increase/diversify rural household income;
- strengthen food, agriculture and environmental research systems; and
- improve food, agriculture and environmental technology dissemination.
The primary beneficiaries are Ethiopia's food insecure rural population, and specifically the six million people living in the 47 chronically food insecure districts of the Amhara region.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: In FY 2002, USAID will fund the completion, analysis and dissemination of Ethiopia's first National Agricultural Census, and development of a pilot system to provide producers with timely, reliable market price information. USAID will also continue its very successful agricultural cooperative development activity by supporting the formation of eight cooperative unions and the establishment of eight rural savings and credit cooperatives to provide financial services to their members. USAID will fund micro-enterprise development activities, including: development of an in-service training program in best practices for micro-finance practitioners; development and piloting of business skills training courses for rural micro-entrepreneurs; and development of pilot efforts to increase market access and improve the effectiveness of appropriate rural technology development and dissemination. USAID will also support up to nine adaptive agricultural and environmental research sites, which will use farmer participation to set the research agenda and evaluate results, and fund development of extension programs using participatory methods to disseminate technology information to rural households in a way that enables them to make informed choices. In-service training in participatory methodologies for extension agents and supervisors will be provided, and research and extension activities will be linked with environmental rehabilitation and soil conservation activities in a pilot integrated community watershed (micro-catchment) management program at two sites. USAID will also pilot an innovative relief-to-development activity to address the root causes of chronic food insecurity with a combination of inputs and food aid. Finally, USAID will use HIV/AIDS funding to expand rural availability and use of condoms under the cooperative development program and incorporate HIV/AIDS material in all training courses.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID intends to use FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification to improve annual crop and livestock production estimates and expand availability of timely market price information for producers. Cooperative development activities will be continued, with establishment of an additional eight cooperative unions and 12 rural savings and credit cooperatives. Micro-enterprise development activities will be expanded and the number of adaptive research sites increased, based on first-year results. A pilot home agent program will be launched in up to five districts to improve the dissemination of technology information to rural women, and HIV/AIDS materials will be provided. Extension and micro-catchment management activities may be expanded.
Performance and Results: The results of USAID-supported rural cooperative development activities continue to exceed expectations. During FY 2001, USAID partners helped restructure 84 farmer cooperatives into business-oriented enterprises with democratically elected Boards of Directors and established nine cooperative unions to take advantage of economies of scale for input (primarily fertilizer) purchase and crop marketing. USAID partners also helped regional Cooperative Promotion Bureaus promote and establish eight rural savings and credit cooperatives to provide financial services (savings and credit) to their members.
USAID has been instrumental in mobilizing donor support for Ethiopia's first National Agricultural Census. This census is a year-long agricultural data collection exercise which will sample over 385,000 rural households, urban households, pastoral households, and state and commercial farms. The census will provide the most reliable crop and livestock production estimates and general information that has ever been available on Ethiopia's agricultural sector at the district level. More importantly, the census results will provide a common reference point for the government, donors and other organizations, and establish the baseline for future annual crop and livestock production estimates, agricultural surveys and food needs assessments. In addition, USAID's support leveraged substantial contributions from the European Union and the British. The census was launched in September of 2001 and data collection efforts are underway, with results expected in late 2002.
- Farmer cooperatives distributed 78,592 metric tons of inputs, valued at $27 million, to their members.
- Farmer cooperatives marketed 17,903 metric tons of member produce, with a value of $12.6 million.
- Farmer cooperatives paid $722,500 in dividends to their members.
Adaptive research was carried out by a USAID partner. Over 600 rural households engaged in on-farm trials and demonstrations of new crop varieties and appropriate technologies. USAID also financed a management information system for a credit and savings institution, with over 200,000 clients and a loan portfolio of over $2 million. Finally, an automated business licensing system for use by the Ministry of Trade and Industry was successfully tested and is now being expanded to other major urban areas.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistical Service (prime), U.S. Bureau of the Census (prime), Agriculture Cooperative Development International and Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (prime), Winrock International (prime), Title XII Contractor (to be awarded).
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
663-007 Rural Household Production and Productivity Increased CSD CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 200 0 3,807 Expenditures 0 0 370 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 200 0 3,807 Expenditures 0 0 370 Unliquidated 200 0 3,437 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 1,000 3,582 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 1,000 3,582 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 4,518 Future Obligations 0 0 22,893 Est. Total Cost 200 1,000 34,800
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