| Working for results in World Bank projects Productive Safety Net Project Helps Lift Communities out of Hunger Close to 9000 people in the Silte zone of Ethiopia’s Southern region are participating in a project that is at once lifting them out of extreme poverty and hunger, enhancing the environment and building community assets. More... Bureaucratic Reform in Burayu Ethiopia is under the most ambitious reform process any country in the developing world has ever taken. Analysts are very skeptical of its success. Nevertheless, a small town in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Burayu, is proving them wrong. More...  Productive Safety Net Project (PSNP)
In Ethiopia the basic problem of poverty and lack of endowments is compounded by extreme vulnerability, mainly due to the over reliance on rainfed agriculture. Agriculture accounts for 45% of GDP and ensures the livelihoods of 80 to 85% of the population. Any small variation in rainfall or world prices (for coffee) affects the incomes of 30 to 40 million people and can mean hunger for 10 to 15 million people. More...  Public Sector Capacity Building Program Support Project (PSCAP)
The Government of Ethiopia has embarked upon on a long term strategy of "state transformation" characterized by bold attempts to implement multiple reforms in parallel; the massive scale-up of institutional development efforts across tiers of government; and the deliberate expansion of the scope of public sector capacity building initiatives. More...  Social and Economic Development for Pastoral Groups - Ethiopia’s Pastoral Community Development Project
The Pastoral Community Development Project (PCDP) supports socio-economic development in Ethiopia ’s pastoral areas. The project, which became operational in September 2003, employs the community-driven development (CDD) model. The project’s goal is to provide capacity-building and to establish models of public service delivery and disaster management. More...  Food Security for Rural Communities - Ethiopia Food Security Project
The Food Security Project (FSP) for Ethiopia intends to increase food access for poor, rural households and communities. The project,co-financed by the World Bank, CIDA, and the Italian Cooperation, focuses on building the livelihoods of food insecure rural households and, specifically, on improving nutrition levels for children less than two years of age. More...   The Ethiopian Women Fuel Wood Carriers Project: Energy, Gender and Poverty Alleviation
Ethiopia ’s energy sector depends heavily on traditional biomass fuels (fuel wood, charcoal, branches, leaves, twigs, and, dung), which account for more than 90 percent of final energy consumption. Most of this is delivered by women fuel wood carriers (WFC), who walk many kilometers out and back daily to collect and bring loads of branches, leaves, and twigs to markets. Read more...  Women Empowering Women: The Ethiopian Women’s Development Initiatives Project
Traditionally, women in Ethiopia have been consigned to strict societal roles, based on cooking, raising children, and a muted voice in decisions affecting them. Most women have accepted tradition without question, subjecting themselves and their daughters to genital mutilation, early marriage, milk tooth extraction, and domestic abuse. Even a woman earning income is often thought to reflect poorly on her husband. Read more... |
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