Eradicating Poverty in Eritrea and Ethiopia

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Eradicating Poverty in Eritrea and Ethiopia

• Thuy Dang
• Amy Koler
• Sung Lee
• Jason Liou
• Alba Struga

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UN Millennium Goals

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child mortality
• Improve material health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
• Ensure Environmental Sustainability
• Develop a global partnership for development

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Why do UNMGs matter?

• Advance the means to a productive life
• For the billion plus people in extreme poverty,
  the MDGs are a life and death issue.
  
• Critical for Global Security
• In poor societies there are frequently conflicts
  over scarce vital resources.
  
• Civil unrest could attract terrorists, allowing
  them to create a base of operation for future
  attacks.

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Focus of Our Presentation

• Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger in Eritrea
  and Ethiopia through
  
• Fighting HIV/AIDS
• Increasing food security

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Locations ofEthiopia and Eritrea
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Comparing Ethiopia and Eritrea

• Ethiopia
• One of the oldest countries in the world
• Population of 73 million
• 50 below poverty line
• GDP per capita 800
• Agriculture is 47 of GDP

• Eritrea
• Independent since May 1993
• Population of 5 million
• 50 below poverty line
• GDP per capita 900
• Agriculture is 12.4 of GDP

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HIV/AIDS Work in Ethiopia

• The UNDPs strong collaboration with the UNAIDS
  Theme Group and the Ethiopian government
  
• Assistance in strengthening relevant government
  institutions
  
• Efforts to strengthen capacity-building through
  gender empowerment
  

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Recommendations for HIV/AIDS

• Continue to strengthen Ethiopian government
  institutions working on HIV/AIDS
  
• Build on leadership development and training
  towards more sensitive/ethical media reporting
  
• Step up efforts to provide HIV testing materials
  for at-risk populations and areas

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Food Security

• Food Security is defined as access by all people
  at all times to adequate nutritious food enabling
  them to lead healthy and productive lives.
  
• National Food Security Food available in the
  national market
  
• Household Food Security All household members
  have affordable access to food
  

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Food Security and Poverty

• Food security and poverty are intricately linked
  if one is improved, the other will be improved as
  well.
  
• Efforts are being made to improve the
  productivity of rural/household farms which will
  improve both food security and poverty.

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Specific Food Security Goals for Eritrea

• 1) Formulate a Food Security Strategy
• 2) Improve coordination of food security
• 3) Collect and analyze food security related
  information
  
• 4) Enable households to increase their human and
  physical assets
  

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Main Challenges to Food Security in Eritrea

• Persistent Droughts
• Eritrea is located in one of the driest areas of
  Africa
  
• During droughts only 25 of the food necessary
  for the country is produced
  
• Droughts occur on average every 10 years
• Border War with Ethiopia

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Goals of Agriculture Development Program in
Ethiopia

• Creation of a national agricultural information
  system
  
• Improved use and management of small-scale
  irrigation
  
• Functioning of microfinance institutions to serve
  rural communities

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Achievements

• 10,000 farmers and 4,000 staff were trained on
  use of improved technologies
  
• A study on the establishment of a national
  computerized agricultural system

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Challenges

• Persistent droughts
• Population and resources imbalance
• Prevailing antiquated technologies

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Recommendations

• Continue with the efforts of improving the
  antiquated technology in use in the Agricultural
  sector
  
• Initiate a study for strategic diversification
  and land use for the drought prone areas, and
  consider the possibility of moving the population
  to more fertile areas within each region
• Increase fundraising efforts toward helping these
  two countries to eradicate poverty by half by
  2015
  

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Recommendations

• Strengthen networking, exchange of ideas and
  joint programming between different stakeholders
  
• Help both countries to resolve their border
  conflict so that they can concentrate on
  eradicating poverty in their respective countries
  

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More Information

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