Project profile — Partnership for Food Security - Phase II

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (35.00%)
Agricultural land resources (31130) (25.00%)
Food crop production (31161) (25.00%)
Livestock (31163) (5.00%)
Agricultural co-operatives (31194) (10.00%)

• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)

The CHF (formerly the Canadian Hunger Foundation) Partnership for Food Security Phase II project seeks to build on an earlier phase, conceived both in response to Ethiopia’s food crisis, and as a first step in a longer-term relief-to-development initiative. This project, building on the solid foundation established previously, aims to contribute to new and innovative relief-to-development programming in a manner consistent with the priorities articulated by the Government of Ethiopia and by CIDA. The Partnership for Food Security, operating within the Bati woreda (district) in the Amhara region, is working to improve the situation of chronic food insecurity by strengthening agricultural productivity and management, conserving natural resources, diversifying income-generating activities, and improving disaster prevention and management capacity. All CIDA disbursements for this project have been completed.

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End of project results as of October 2010 included: improved food security in ten selected kebeles (communities) of Bati woreda (district) Ethiopia. Households generated a 62% increase in income as a result of improved agricultural production (including the introduction of new crops: groundnuts, white sesame, cassava) and improved livestock production. A total of 10,895 groups (over 4,000 of them women’s groups) participated in crop production related training. Project interventions also contributed to the development of basic public infrastructure, including rural access roads, potable water, and small-scale irrigation schemes. The project contributed to improvement in forest cover with the establishment of three central forest seedling nursery sites and support was provided for the establishment of about 50 private nurseries. About 13.2 million seedlings of different tree species were produced on the nursery sites of which about 10.7 million seedlings were distributed and planted through the different reforestation schemes. The project also established approximately 250 women’s saving and credit groups, involving close to 5,000 women.

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