Ethiopia - Country Programme Profile 2014
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ETHIOPIA
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Scaling-up agricultural production and developing new
enterprise and market opportunities for farmers and
rural households has become a key focus of Self Help
Africa’s work in Ethiopia.
In 2013 the organisation invested upwards of €2.5 million
in eight development projects, all of which are being
implemented in collaboration with local and/or international
partners. 2014 started on a strong footing with two new
projects commencing in January, and a number of additional
projects in the pipeline.
2014
SOMALIA
KENYA
SUDAN
ERITREA
SOMALILAND
TanaLake
Addis Ababa
01. RuSACCO II
03. LivestockGrowthProgram
05. Building Resilience through seed andconservation agriculture
04. Early SeedGeneration II
2. Malt BarleyValue-ChainDevelopment
09. Improving HoneyProduction and Quality
10. ClimateSmart Agriculture
06. Scaling Up ofCommunity-Based Seed Production and Multiplication
07. STAR project
08. Pastoralist LivelihoodImprovement Project
Amhara
Oromia
SNNPR ETHIOPIA
Butajira
Gondar
VALLEYGREAT RIFT
ETHIOPIA
togo
ghana
kenya
burkinafaso
zambia
malawi
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ETHI
OPIA
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Scaling Up of Community-Based Seed Production and Multiplication
Sustainable Transformation of Agricultural Resources (STAR)
Pastoralist Livelihood Improvement Project
Improving Honey Production and Quality
Climate SmartAgriculture
Irish Aid
Irish Aid
Irish Aid
Jersey Overseas Aid Committee
Irish Aid
€ 485,000
€ 200,000
€ 114,000
€ 103,836
€ 640, 071
2014
2015
2014
2015
2014
2015
2015
2015
2016
Bureau of Agricultureof SNNPR
A Glimmer of Hope
Emmanuel Development Association
SOS Sahel, Farm Africa, Vita
SNNP Region
Oromia Region
Afar Region
SNNPR
SNNPR
Programme Donor Timeframe ImplementingPartner
ProgrammeArea
Total Budget
Rural Savings andCredit Cooperatives II
Malt Barley Value-Chain Development
Livestock GrowthProgramme
Early Seed Generation II
Irish Aid, Irish League of Credit Unions, Terrafina Microfinance
2013
2015
SACCO Unions:Awash, Keleta, Ifa Boru,Yenestanet Fana,Sidama Chalala
Oromia and SNNPRegions
Irish Aid 2012
2015
Farmer Cooperatives:Galema,Raya Kajema
Oromia Region
USAID 2013
2016
CNFA SNNP Region
Vitol Foundation 2014
2017
Koga Irrigation Water Users Service Cooperative
Amhara Region
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02
03
04
05
06
07
Building Resilience through Seed and Conservation Agriculture
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations
2014
2015
Melkassa Agricultural Research Centre, Farmer Cooperatives, Boset Woreda Office of Agriculture. Cooperative Promotion Office
Oromia Region
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09
10
€ 695,965
€ 353,655
€ 426,594
€ 213,211
€ 203,409
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I n over a decade Self Help Africa has distributed small
loans to over 34,000 people in two regions of Ethiopia, to
support the development of on and off-farm enterprise
as a means of generating an income.
SHA’s RuSACCO (Rural Savings and Credit Cooperative)
Programme has supported the formation of 240 Primary
Cooperatives and five Cooperative Unions in 20 districts of
Oromia and SNNP Regions.
Training, management support, mentoring and financial
assistance has been provided to these member-run
microfinance providers.
Member-run RuSACCOs have a comparative advantage as
financial providers, and particularly so in rural communities
where less than 15% of households have access to credit.
In 2013 SHA, in collaboration with the Irish League of Credit
Unions Foundation and Terrafina Microfinance, implemented
a new phase of its RuSACCO programme.
The programme aims to promote higher levels of financial
inclusion, and support rural families to access credit with
which to develop enterprise and new income generating
opportunities.
In the coming years the RuSACCO programme will seek to
improve the operational and financial capacity of SACCO
Unions, thus supporting these unions to deliver sustainable
financial services to their members.
Total direct beneficiaries: 40,000
Self Help Africa’s Malt Barley Value-Chain Development
Project was developed on foot of research that was
carried out to assess the market potential of malt
barley as a cash crop for small-holder farmers in Oromia
Region.
The assessment indicated an existing high demand for malt
barley, and the potential for development within the sector.
The Malt Barley Project was subsequently designed to tackle
the challenged faced by malt barley producing farmers, their
institutions, and stakeholders who benefit from production.
Total direct beneficiaries: 6,000
ETHI
OPIA
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01 RURAL SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVES II
02 MALT BARLEY VALUE-CHAIN DEVELOPMENT
07
Self Help Africa’s Livestock Growth Programme is a five
year project that is designed to reduce poverty through
improving the productivity and competitiveness of
selected livestock value-chains, including meat/live animals,
hide, skins, leather and dairy production.
Backed by the US Government’s Feed the Future (FTF)
Initiative, the project is also a part of USAID-Ethiopia’s
Agricultural Growth Programme.
As part of a consortium led by US-based non-profit
organisation CNFA, Self Help Africa is responsible for a part
of the implementation of this project in Oromia and SNNP
regions.
SHA will focus on increasing the productivity and
competitiveness of selected livestock value chains and
improving the quality and diversity of household diet through
intake of livestock product. Integrated into these components
are the crosscutting objectives of engaging people living
with HIV/AIDS, gender equity, promotion of ICT solutions,
environmental mitigation and natural resource management.
Total direct beneficiaries: 5,000
Early Seed Generation II Project follows a successful pilot
that was undertaken to test farmer-led basic and pre-
basic wheat seed production in Ethiopia.
That project was one of the first of its kind in the country, and
demonstrated that farmers at community-level could produce
quality basic and pre-basic seed for sale and distribution.
The second phase of the project will test this innovative
approach to farmer-led early generation seed production
on a wider scale, and extend the reach of farmer led seed
production to a new region - Amhara, and to new crop –
maize.
The project aims to prove the viability of farmer-led
seed production as a means to address limited seed
availability in Ethiopia.
This will not only address the high demand for certified
seeds in Ethiopia, but also provide farmers with better
market access and a better price, thus enhancing
economic growth and development.
Total direct beneficiaries: 5,380
This project is being funded by the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations through its
improved agricultural solutions initiative. It is designed
to improve the resilience of smallholder men and women
living in drought prone areas of in the East Shewa district of
Oromia region Ethiopia.
The adoption of conservation agriculture techniques, together
with increased availability and utilisation of improved quality
seed, will help increase crop production, enhance food
security and alleviate rural poverty. The promotion of
conservation agriculture as a sustainable agriculture
practice to enhance natural resource management and crop
production will improve access of smallholder farmers to
drought-tolerent varieties of maize, teff and haricot bean
seed, which are the main food crops produced in the area.
Total direct beneficiaries: 6,000
ETHI
OPIA
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03 LIVESTOCK GROWTH PROGRAMME
04 EARLY SEED GENERATION II 05 BUILDING RESILIENCE THROUGH SEED AND CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE
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I mproving Smallholders’ Food Security in Southern Nations
Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR) is an 18-month
project funded by Irish Aid, to be implemented by SHA
in collaboration with the Bureau of Agriculture of SNNPR,
Ethiopia. The project’s goal is to increase food security and
economic growth for 6,000 male and female farmers within
the region.
The project has been designed based on success and lessons
learnt from previous SHA seed projects. It aims to diversify
and increase productivity of crops through the provision of
wheat, haricot bean and teff seed, and the establishment of
farmer based seed production and multiplication. It will build
and strengthen cooperative leaders and staff, and enhance
the capacity of government extension staff to ensure effective
service delivery to smallholders.
The improvement of natural resource management is
also core to the project. Communities will be trained on
the importance of sustainable use of their resource base
to reverse the effects of environmental degradation and
promote environmental protection.
Total direct beneficiaries: 6,000
Growth in agriculture has the potential to have an
enormous impact on poverty reduction, however
Ethiopian agriculture is dominated by small-scale
subsistence and rain-fed production systems using few inputs
and characterised by low productivity. Farmers are extremely
vulnerable to external shocks such as extreme climatic events
including drought and floods, as well as diseases and volatile
global markets. This project is designed to address these
problems and improve food security in one of the poorest and
most food- insecure woredas in North Shewa zone of Oromia
Regional State.
Over 24 months Self Help Africa will directly target 2,800
(30% female) smallholders to increase their capacity to
diversify livelihood activities, improve their wealth, food and
livelihood security. The project will focus on improving the
production and productivity of crops and livestock and create
better market linkages for farmers.
Problems of soil erosion and watershed management will
be addressed through the introduction of appropriate
technologies among all stakeholders. Cooperatives will be
strengthened to ensure farmers are engaging in the relevant
value chains and linkages will be created with rural savings
and credit cooperatives (RuSACCOs) to provide farmers
with access to financial services. Linking development
initiatives with cooperatives and RuSACCOs will also ensure
sustainability of interventions in the post-project period.
Total direct beneficiaries: 2,800
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06 SCALING UP OF COMMUNITY-BASED SEED PRODUCTION AND MULTIPLICATION 07 SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION OF
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES (STAR) PROJECT
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The Pastoralist Livelihood Improvement Project is a pilot
that is being implemented in the remote and arid
Afar region of Northern Ethiopia, in partnership with
Emmanuel Development Association.
The project seeks to build the capability of pastoralists to
adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. The goal
is to assist communities to cope with changing climate in one
of the hottest low-lying regions in the world, and will work
specifically with semi-nomadic communities in three areas
(kebeles) of Afar Region. The project will also seek to build
knowledge and experience to allow for subsequent scaling-up
to other pastoralists.
Total direct beneficiaries: 1,500
Ethiopian beekeepers currently realise just 10% of their
production potential, and meet less than 10% of the
market demand within the country for honey.
As well as addressing the challenges presented by low
production, this project will also seek to address the current
poor quality of honey that is produced in the country.
95% of Ethiopian beekeepers use traditional beekeeping
methods and do not have access to modern hives. By
providing training and improving hive production, the honey
harvest per hive can be increased by at least 30%, while
honey producer cooperatives can assist beekeepers to market
their produce collectively to processing companies who wish
to buy in bulk.
With funding from Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, this
project will work with farmers to increase their production
and return from beekeeping. The project will train
smallholders in basic bee husbandry, queen bee rearing,
colony multiplication and nutrition. It will purchase and
distribute hives and seedlings for bees to forage and establish
nine honey cooperatives.
Cooperative members will be trained in marketing, business
planning and quality standards. This will enable collective
marketing, improve access to markets and enable farmers to
continue to invest in beekeeping and improve their livelihood
security.
Total direct beneficiaries: 130
A collaboration with SOS-Shale, FARM Africa and Vita,
this ‘Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Project’ will
commence in January 2015.
Developed to promote a CSA approach towards achieving
food security, it is built built on three key pillars of: increasing
productivity and incomes, enhancing resilience of livelihoods,
and reducing agriculture’s contribution to climate change.
The project covers 15 districts (woredas) categorised into four
clusters, with consortium members taking responsibility for
implementation in a district each.
The CSA Project will strengthen the resilience of individuals,
households and communities by improving and diversifying
livelihoods, developing community- based management
systems of resources critical to resilience (water, wetlands,
farmlands, communal land and forests) and embedding
location specific climate change adaptation and mitigation
into its development initiative.
Total direct beneficiaries: 7,750ET
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08 PASTORALIST LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
09 IMPROVING HONEY PRODUCTION AND QUALITY
10 CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
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