Project profile — Ethiopia Strategy Support Program

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Government And Civil Society, General: Public sector policy and administrative management (15110) (20.00%)
• Agricultural policy and administrative management:
Agricultural policy and administrative management (31110) (20.00%)
Agricultural research (31182) (20.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental policy and administrative management (41010) (10.00%)
• Other Multisector: Rural development (43040) (10.00%)
• Developmental Food Aid/Food Security Assistance: Food aid/food security programs (52010) (20.00%)

• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)

The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (Phase I) was a multi-donor research, capacity strengthening and knowledge management program conceived jointly by the Government of Ethiopia, the International Food Policy Research Institute, and the international donor community. The biggest focus of the program was on improving the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of a broad national framework for pro-poor rural development. The first of the program’s main objectives focused on the creation of key policy research results, in order to fill knowledge gaps and help strengthen the design and implementation of Ethiopia’s rural development strategy. The second related to the development of a stronger and more integrated knowledge support system to help underpin future food policy analysis and inform key rural development strategy decisions. The third objective was the strengthening of Ethiopian policy research institutions through collaboration in applied policy research, targeted training programs, and collaborative engagement. The final objective was to contribute to the design and implementation of a national monitoring and evaluation system to track progress and provide feedback on the how the strategy and its implementation can be improved. All CIDA disbursements for this project have been completed.

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Results at the end of the project, June 2008, include: the completion of 52 publications and reports relating to 18 research initiatives that were identified and funded under the program; the establishment of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, which provides real-time market price information on cereals, pulses and coffee and a secure, reliable and efficient end-to-end system for handling, grading, storing and selling commodities at market prices; the development and publication of an “Atlas of the Ethiopian Economy”, which provides insight on geographic factors associated with the agricultural sector, distributed both as a hard-copy publication and on CD-ROM; and the completion of 19 training courses and workshops with a total of 427 participants.

• Proactive disclosure