Addis Ababa

• Enable a more stable, efficient and inclusive financial system that fosters private sector development
• Strengthen the ability of the private sector to effectively promote reforms through dialogue and deliberation with public institutions
• Improve business development services for small and medium enterprises

Date of Operation: 2012 - 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: Research Triangle Institute International (RTI)

Other Implementing Partners: Save the Children, SIL Lead, Inc., Florida State University (FSU), Inveneo, WhizKidz, and Visions in Action

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal: Improve reading comprehension and writing proficiency in primary schools as the foundation for future learning, covering seven of the major Ethiopian languages and English

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Date of Operation: 2011 - 2016

Primary Implementing Partner: Chemonics International Inc

Other Implementing Partners: Evidence for Development (EfD), Action Against Hunger-UK (ACF), and Overseas Strategic Consulting, Ltd. (OSC), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Kimetrica

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Provide timely and rigorous early warning and vulnerability information on emerging and evolving food security issues.

Description:

Date of Operation: 2012-2017

Primary Implementing Partner: World Learning and Population Services International (PSI)

Other Implementing Partner(s): EngenderHealth, Ethiopian Public Health Association, Handicap International

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Dire Dawa, Gambella, Harari, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Contribute to the national target of reducing new HIV infections by 50 percent by 2014

Objectives:

• Prevent new HIV infections by reducing behavioral risk factors among most-at-risk populations (MARPs) and other highly vulnerable populations
• Strengthen community level systems and structures to support combination prevention
• Increase the capacity of GoE to lead HIV prevention interventions that are based on the local epidemiology of new infections
• Forecast the need for and strengthen HIV prevention endeavors in selected large-scale workplaces

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Date of Operation: 2007 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Justice for All - Prison Fellowship Ethiopia

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Benishangul, Gambela, Oromia, Somali and Tigray

Goal:

Deter human rights abuses and strengthen the administration of justice nationwide

Objectives:

• Training for federal and regional court and police officials in international and national human rights law and institutional administrative regulations
• Strengthen dialogue between relevant justice sector actors and stakeholders
• Assist with the design and implementation of justice sector reforms based on international best practice.

Description:

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:

See also: USAID DCA Overview

Date of Operation: 2004 – 2020

Primary Implementing Partner: Bank of Abyssinia, NIB International Bank, Zemen Bank

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Encourage growth of the private sector and microenterprises by improving access to finance and credit for underserved populations.

Project Objectives:

• Increase access to short-term marketing credit and medium-term investment capital for women, diaspora and local entrepreneurs engaged in small and medium business activities in the agriculture and health sectors.

Description:

Date of Operation: 2006 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: John Snow, Inc.

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve the management and availability of essential health commodities, including contraceptives

Project Objectives:

• Establish and manage a robust contraceptive logistics system
• Strengthen national health commodity supply system
• Take lead roles in:
  • Logistics management information (both automated and paper-based)
  • Facility stores upgrading

Description:

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2013

Implementing Partners: American Council on Education (ACE)/Higher Education for Development (HED)

Other Implementing Partner: University of Connecticut and Alabama A&M University

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa

Goal:

Build the capacity in graduate-level education, research, community outreach, and institutional development in sustainable water resource management in Ethiopia.

Objectives:

Date of Operation: 2007 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: World Health Organization (WHO)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Assist Ethiopia in reaching certification level for polio eradication.

Project Objectives:

• Achieve certification standards of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance at national and intermediary levels
• Assist with the timely response to any importation of the wild polio virus
• Continue implementing immunization campaigns to strengthen active and passive surveillance systems within the country

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