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Ethiopia
>> Regional Overview >> Ethiopia Overview Program Data Sheet
663-011
USAID MISSION: Ethiopia
PROGRAM TITLE: Mitigate the Effects of Disaster (Pillar: Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Mitigate the Effects of Disaster, 663-011
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,370,000 DA; $930,000 CSH
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $2,140,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY2001 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2007Summary: USAID's program to Mitigate the Effects of Disaster (MED), funded with Child Survival and Health, Development Assistance, and Title II Development and Emergency resources, includes the following components:
- improve early warning and emergency response capacity at federal and regional levels;
- decrease the vulnerability and improve the nutritional status of children and at-risk persons in target areas; and
- restore socioeconomic institutions in the Ethiopia-Eritrean border region, minimizing the potential for further conflict.
Activities under this objective are integrated with USAID's objectives in health, education and agriculture in Ethiopia.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: FY 2002 Development Assistance resources will be used to support rehabilitation activities targeting internally displaced population (IDPs) and returnees along the Ethiopian-Eritrea border. Productivity and livelihoods of 16,000 IDPs will be restored through the provision of agricultural (oxen, seeds, tools) and income generating inputs. FY 2002 funds will also provide 52,000 people household utensils and food preparation materials as well as improve sanitation and health for an additional 29,000 IDPs.
FY 2002 Beneficiaries:
- Five million food insecure people.
- 500,000 food aid program beneficiaries
- 97,000 internally displaced people.
FY 2002 P.L. 480 resources will be used to address the needs of five million food insecure people. While the total number of affected people changes from year to year, depending on the weather and other factors, a core group of four to five million people remain chronically food insecure, unable to generate enough income or produce enough food to meet the most basic needs of their families. The chronically food insecure population will be targeted for rehabilitation or safety-net services that address the systemic issues that keep them destitute.
A pilot relief to development activity and the integration of food aid activities with USAID's on-going development assistance programs are critical to meeting this objective. Emergency food aid combined with DA resources will be used for two chronically food insecure districts to rebuild community and household assets and give impoverished communities a step out of poverty.
FY 2002 Development Assistance resources will also be used to improve disaster preparedness, plan and implement food security strategies, develop appropriate emergency response packages, and build the emergency response capacity of the Government. The geographic information system and database management, as well as finance and budgeting training programs, will be expanded to cover district level project staff in four regions. USAID will also fund special studies in food aid targeting and alleviating destitution.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID'S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 RESOURCES FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE Planned FY 2003 Program: FY 2003 resources will be used to further support the restoration of socio-economic institutions along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border by providing 70% of the vulnerable returnees in target districts with sustainable access to primary health care, agricultural inputs and potable water systems. FY 2003 funds will also be used to improve the emergency response and mitigation capacity of the Government of Ethiopia through integration and expansion of food aid and development assistance to cover more districts in four focus regions.
Performance and Results: In FY 2001, the United States contributed food to meet the needs of 6.2 million drought-affected people throughout the country. This contribution constituted 70% of the total food aid delivered to Ethiopia in FY 2001.
The U.S. Government was the first donor to respond to the needs of the 350,000 IDPs. Activities implemented by USAID along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border were instrumental in restoring the productivity and livelihoods of the IDPs and re-establishing basic institutions in selected war-affected areas.
USAID Development Assistance funds complement food aid in Ethiopia by supporting short-and medium-term interventions to decrease the vulnerability of at-risk persons. In FY 2001, a five-year impact evaluation survey on the food aid program highlighted major achievements in health, asset building, and community participation and will inform follow-on activities beginning in FY 2003. For example, a natural resource conservation program rehabilitated 19,664 hectares of highly degraded land through community participation. In FY 2001, food resources were integrated with development assistance activities in agriculture, health, and basic education sectors. This was an important step towards achieving more effective USAID programs as well as strengthening the relief to development continuum.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: CARE (prime), Catholic Relief Services (prime), the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (prime), Save the Children - USA (prime), World Vision International (prime), Food for the Hungry International (prime), AFRICARE (prime), and Relief Society of Tigray (prime).
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
663-011 Mitigate the Effects of Disaster CSD CSH DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 998 0 2,654 Expenditures 108 0 186 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 998 0 2,654 Expenditures 108 0 186 Unliquidated 890 0 2,468 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 930 2,370 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 930 2,370 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 2,140 Future Obligations 0 0 9,060 Est. Total Cost 998 930 16,224
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