Mercy Corps

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

Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN+)

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Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Mercy Corps

Other Implementing Partner(s): Save the Children

Regions of Operation: Somali

Goal:

Increase resilience to food security shocks

Project Objectives:

  • Improve food security shock preparedness
  • Prevent food insecurity through strengthened and diversified livelihoods
  • Promote efficient market-based business, local economic development and economic integration

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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