Linking the Vulnerable to Markets

Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)

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Date of Operation: 2012 – 2017
 
Primary Implementing Partner: Mercy Corps
 
Other Implementing Partners: CARE, Kimetrica, SOS Sahel, Pastoralist Concern, Haramaya University, Afar Integrated Sustainable Development Association, and Aged and Children Pastoralist Association
 
Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia and Somali
 
Goal:
 
Increase pastoral household incomes and improve their resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change.
 
Project Objectives:
  • Improve livestock and livestock products marketing systems
  • Enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change
  • Increase and diversify household assets of chronically food insecure and vulnerable populations through livelihood diversification and long-term market linkages
Description:
 
PRIME aims to build capacity and promote the market readiness of targeted chronically food insecur

Livelihoods Integration Unit: Enhancing Livelihoods Application (LIU-ELA)

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Date of Operation: 2012 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Kimetrica

Other Implementing Partner(s): Ministry of Agriculture Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Provide support to the Government of Ethiopia Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) to improve its capacity to anticipate and manage shocks and disasters in a timely manner.

Project Objectives:

  • Provide input to the Productive Safety Net Program risk-financing process
  • Assist the Government of Ethiopia in tracking and reporting on trends in rural incomes
  • Build the capacity of federal and regional government officials on the use of new and existing analytical tools for early warning and disaster risk preparedness and including integration of improved climate change decision-making models

Description:

Productive Safety Net Program Graduation (PSNP GRAD)

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Productive Safety Net Program Graduation with Resilience to Sustainable Development

Date of Operation: 2012 - 2016Bottle of Ethiopian organic honey

Primary Implementing Partner: CARE

Other Implementing Partners: Catholic Relief Services, Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA), Relief Society of Tigray (REST), Ethiopian Catholic Church-Social Development & Coordinating Office of Meki and Ziway, and Agri Service Ethiopia (ASE). Also Holland’s SNV is providing a technical advisor on value chains, and Tufts University will conduct evaluation and knowledge management.

Regions of Operation: 16 PSNP woredas are targeted for GRAD operations: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative – Policy and Coordination Phase II

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Date of Operation: 2005 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Tufts University

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia, and Somali

Goal:

Increased resilience to shocks and secure more sustainable livelihoods by policy planning and implementation for the Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative (PLI)

Project Objectives:

  • Ensure technical coordination of PLI activities
  • Systematic monitoring, impact assessment and research to inform policy development and best-practice guidelines in livestock developmental relief within pastoralist regions
  • Institutionalize best practice development-relief interventions nationally and in selected pastoralist regions

Description:

Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative – Phase II (PLI-II)

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See also: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Transformations for Enhanced Resilience (WATER) Project, Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013man working at the camel market

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children Consortium

Other Implementing Partners: CARE, International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Mercy Corps

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia and Somali

Goal:

Protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and ex-pastoralists.

Project Objectives:

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