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ETHIOPIA selfhelpafrica.org 2019 1 Implementing Programme Donor Total Budget Time Frame Programme Area Partner Climate-Smart Irish Aid €806,695 2015 SOS Sahel, SNNP region 01 Agriculture Farm Africa, 2019 Vita Building Opportunities Church of Ireland €142,249 2015 East Shewa Zone Oromia region 02 through Seed Enterprise Bishop’s Appeal Agriculture Office, Transformation Guernsey Overseas Aid 2019 Cooperative Office and (BOSET) Commission Finance and Economic Irish Aid Development Office Bezina Abinet roasting coffee beans with her son 2019 in her shop in Dodata, Oromia, Ethiopia. Scaling Community- Agricultural €1,450,176 2016 Hibret Fire, Halaba, SNNPR region and 03 Based Seed Production Transformation Agency Kenbata, Tegulet, Guna Amhara region 2019 and Wemberma farmer cooperatives caling up agricultural production, improving nutrition Last year, the organisation was involved in implementing security, developing new enterprise and market close to a dozen development projects, all of which Stronger Together Electric Aid €29,726 2019 Edget Beadinet and South Gondar and West opportunities for farmers, strengthening community- are being undertaken in collaboration with local and/or PROGRAMMES ETHIOPIA S 04 Irish Aid Guna Seed Unions Gojam zones in Amhara based seed production and building climate resilience, are international partners. 2020 region all key areas of Self Help Africa’s work in Ethiopia. Scaling Up Rural Irish League of Credit €457,000 2016 Tinsaye, Bekelcha Sella, North Shewa Zone of 05 Savings and Credit Unions Foundation, Fana Gudinna and Amhara region, North Cooperatives Irish Aid, The Reed 2019 Agnot RuSACCO Unions Shewa Zone of Oromia Foundation region and Guraghe ETHIOPIA Impact Trade Union Zone of SNNPR Dairy for Development Jersey Overseas Aid €503,963 2018 Nesri Terign, Nano Abichu Gna’a woreda, 06 Commission Mendida, and Adere Oromia region 2021 Gordoma milk producers’ cooperatives PROJECT KEY Feed the Future - USAID $251,964 2018 Bako Bore Farmers Ambo Zuria, Bako Scaling up RuSACCOs 07 Maize Value Chain Fintrac Cooperative Union, Tibe and Toke Kutaye ERITREA Building Opportunities through Development 2021 Ambo Farmers Woredas, West Shewa Cooperative Union zone of the Oromia Seed Enterprise Transformation Gondar region Feed the Future Dairy for Development Capacity Building of Alliance for a Green €264,862 2019 Local government Oromia, Tigray, Amhara 08 Farmer Training Centres Revolution in Africa and SNNP regions Stronger Together (AGRA) 2020 Addis Ababa Climate-Smart Agriculture SOMALILAND Capacity Building of Farmer Butajira Training Centers ETHIOPIA Bezina Abinet pouring coffee in her shop in Dodata, Oromia, Ethiopia. Extensive Agriculture and Savanna Forest, Rainforest, Swamp Barren Desert SOMALIA KENYA 22 3 Shewangiza Andarge, Dejene Melka and Gerachew Miko, Tadesse Lema pictured outside Burqaa RuSACCO, Dirma Village, Abichu Gna’a District, Oromia, Ethiopia. Lume, Oromia, Ethiopia. BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH SEED 01 CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE 02 ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION 03 SCALING COMMUNITY-BASED SEED PRODUCTION Objective: To build the resilience and Objective: To improve the resilience of Objective: To improve crop production This focused on building the capacity of six recently ETHIOPIA PROGRAMMES ETHIOPIA PROGRAMMES ETHIOPIA improve the food and nutrition security of smallholder farmers through disaster risk and productivity for smallholder farmers established seed unions across the Amhara and SNNPR regional states through the construction of large capacity 15,500 target households. management practices. through community-based seed seed stores and provision of seed cleaning machines and production. thiopia is predicted to be one of the countries most limate change is posing significant challenges other essential infrastructure and equipment. Eaffected by climate change in the coming years. Since Cto Ethiopian communities, affecting water and eed is a key input for improving crop production and 2016, Ethiopia has experienced three consecutive food security. The utilisation of drought-tolerant, Sproductivity. Improving the quality of seeds used by Self Help Africa is reinforcing the implementation of the years of extreme drought, leading to widespread food early-maturing crop varieties, along with conservation smallholder farmers can significantly increase the yield project by providing technical support to community based insecurity in many parts of the country. agriculture and improved agronomic practices, are crucial potential of their crops and thus represents one of the most seed producers, and mobilising additional local resources to improving resilience. economical and efficient inputs for agricultural development. from community and local government. The objective of this Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) project is to build the resilience and improve the food and nutrition The aim of the Building Opportunities through Seed Based on its previous experience in developing community- security of 15,500 target households through the adoption Enterprise Transformation (BOSET) project is to improve based seed production in Ethiopia, in 2016, the Agricultural • 8,787 households of climate-smart agriculture practices. the economic, ecological and organisational resilience Transformation Agency commissioned Self Help Africa to of smallholder farmers through on-farm disaster risk implement a project to address the shortage of improved A collaboration with SOS Sahel, Farm Africa and VITA, this management interventions in drought-prone areas of Boset seed in different regions of the country. CSA project started in June 2015. The project builds the district in the Oromia region. This is being delivered through resilience of individuals, households and communities to training courses on conservation agriculture; building local climate extremes by: improving and diversifying livelihoods; seed enterprises; establishing a revolving fund for seed; and developing community-based management systems of training members on cooperative management. resources such as water, farmlands, communal land and forests; and embedding location-specific climate change The adoption of conservation agriculture techniques, adaptation and mitigation into its development initiative. together with increased availability and utilisation of improved quality seed, is helping to increase crop The project also focuses on strengthening market access production, enhance food security and alleviate rural and building the institutional capacity of community- poverty. Furthermore, by increasing the resilience of 3,880 based organisations and business development service smallholder farmers, they will be less vulnerable to drought providers. The aim is to effectively engage resource-poor and other climate risks and therefore better able to bounce farmers in the production of high-value crops and small back from disaster. livestock, and also in the uptake of new production and processing technologies. • 6,000 households • 15,500 households Tadesse Lema and Mamitu Alemu with children Kalkidan and Haile Tadesse, 44 at their home in Lume, Oromia, Ethiopia. 5 ETHIOPIA PROGRAMMES ETHIOPIA PROGRAMMES ETHIOPIA Alem Abebe and her husband Tafese Getachew pictured outside their home in Sire, Oromia, Ethiopia. Munira Hairedin, Kolololeka Village, Ethiopia. STRONGER TOGETHER SCALING UP RURAL SAVINGS AND CREDIT 04 05 COOPERATIVES Objective: To establish strong linkages between primary cooperatives Objective: To contribute to increased incomes, improved food security and local cooperative unions. and reduced vulnerability in rural areas. ustainable increases in agricultural productivity The objective of the Stronger Together project is to thiopia has one of the lowest levels of financial RuSACCOs with a combined total membership of 64,678 are largely dependent on access to quality seed. establish strong linkages between primary cooperatives inclusion in the world, with only 22% of adults individuals, which is expected to grow by 15% each year as SImproved seeds yield crops that are high-yielding that are producing wheat, maize, barley and potato Eholding an account with a financial institution a result of the project’s interventions. The project’s overall and may be drought-tolerant or resistant to pests and seed and their respective local cooperative unions. This and just 14% able to access credit. This is because the objective of promoting higher levels of increasing financial disease, thereby increasing crop production. The availability is providing the unions with a larger and more regular financial sector is dominated by commercial banking, and inclusion through sustainable, community-owned financial of quality seed in sufficient amounts, however, is currently a supply of maize, wheat, barley and potato seed and the the coverage of these financial services is still extremely institutions will be achieved through: enhanced governance challenge for smallholder farmers throughout Ethiopia. cooperatives with access to a wider market and increased limited and concentrated in urban areas. Most rural and and management capacity of RuSACCOs and unions; bargaining power with buyers. remote areas of the country remain excluded or unbanked. growth in membership of RuSACCOs and introduction of Self Help Africa (SHA) has taken a lead role in promoting Savings and Credit Cooperatives have better outreach new products and services; and dissemination of lessons, community-based seed production through the SHA is providing cooperatives with threshing equipment