Project profile — Ethiopia Food Security Project

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Public sector policy and administrative management (15110) (23.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural development (31120) (38.00%)
• Trade Policy And Regulations And Trade-Related Adjustment: Multilateral trade negotiations (33140) (1.00%)
• Developmental Food Aid/Food Security Assistance: Food aid/food security programs (52010) (38.00%)

• Gender equality (not targeted)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

The Ethiopia Food Security Project is a joint CIDA-Italy-World Bank project that targets food security issues at the woreda (district) level, with a main goal of reducing poverty and malnutrition in vulnerable, food insecure communities. Keeping this goal in mind, the project has several supporting objectives: to provide resources that help communities build assets, increase household income, and improve the nutritional status of children under five years of age; to build critical woreda, regional, and federal level capacities to ensure grants are managed effectively for the benefit of the poor; and to document and distribute information to woredas about the principles, procedures, roles, and responsibilities of funding for community-directed projects. As part of this project, grants are offered, mainly in support of community-identified micro-projects. Communities are eligible to apply for grants in support of their own projects to build assets, generate income, or promote child growth. Examples of micro-projects include beekeeping, dairy farming, and goat rearing. All CIDA disbursements for this project have been completed and the results of our investment are outlined below.

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Results achieved as of the end of the project (September 2015) include: (i) 561,120 poor households (38% women) have improved food security and livelihoods; (ii) 60,991 community-level sub-projects (280 activities to build community assets, and 60,711 activities to improve household incomes) were funded in 93 food insecure woredas (districts); (iii) participating households have significantly improved incomes, and better access to food and household assets; (iv) increased knowledge and skills through training in project identification, entrepreneurship and marketing strategies; (v) pregnant and lactating mothers gained awareness on how to promote child growth as a result of counselling on nutrition and sanitation; (vi) improved capacity of institutions; (vii) development of rural microfinance institutions; (viii) assistance provided to 614,595 households in business plan preparation, 20% of which covered off-farm activities; (ix) credit provided to 393,736 households; (x) 3,783 Rural Savings and Credit Cooperatives were established, covering 75% of the project area’s kebeles (neighbourhoods); and (xi) specialized guidelines developed for building household assets in pastoral areas. This project has helped poor households in food-insecure areas access safe, sufficient and nutritious food and avoid malnutrition.

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