Project Highlights

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Project Highlights
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The ANRS

• Famine/Poverty and Development Challenges
• Accelerated Natural Resource degradation
• Absence of the use of new and appropriate
  technologies
• Weak basic service delivery institutional
  arrangements
• Poor/weak rural market infrastructure
• Limited on- and off-farm income generating
  activities
• 47/105 woredas are food insecure
• 40 of the ANRS population is chronically food
  insecure, and
• 70 of children under five in the food insecure
  woredas are stunted.

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• The challenges are immense.
• THERE IS A NEED FOR AN INTEGRATED and
• SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT
• EFFORT.
• THIS IS THE APPROACH AMAREW IS
• TAKING
• COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT
• TECHNOLOGY GENERATION AND DISSEMINATION
• MICRO-ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT
• INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING

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ANRS Relevant Policy Thrusts

• National poverty reduction strategy
• The medium- to long-term target is to reduce
  the absolute size of the food insecure rural
  population and make them exit from food aid
• (FDRE, 2002v)
• Regional food security program
• Increase agricultural production and productivity
  as well as income of rural households

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USAID/Ethiopia RHPP SO

• SO 7 rural household production and productivity
  increased (RHPP SO)
• IR3 rural household cash income
  increased/diversified
• IR4 food, agriculture and environment research
  systems in target areas strengthened
• IR5 dissemination of food, agriculture and
  environmental information in target areas
  improved

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Complementing interests
USAID RHPP SO
ANRS STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
AMAREW PROJECT
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THE AMAREW CONSORTIUM
VIRGINIA TECH (EXTENSION AND RESEARCH)
VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY (EXTENSION AND RESEARCH
with VT)
ACDI/VOCA (MED)
CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WATERSHED)
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PROJECT COMPONENTS
CROSS CUTTING ISSUES
PART I
PART II
RESEARCH
MED
HIV/AIDS
GENDER
EXTENSION
CAPACITY BUILDING
WATERSHED
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PARTNERSHIP
BoA
ARARI
MSEIDB
AMAREW PROJECT
FSPCO
BoRD
ACSI
EPLAUA
R2D
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Ethiopian Collaborator institutions

• Alemaya University
• Bahir Dar University
• Debub University
• Mekele University
• Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization
  (EARO)

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More on partnership

• Competitive grants and mentorship program linking
  US CRSP Universities with research and extension
  professionals in the ANRS
• Resource Institutions CRSP Council
  Universities CGIAR Centers

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Integration and operational modality
WATERSHED LEVEL
EXTENSION WOREDA LEVEL
WATERSHED
EXTENSION
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
EXTENSION
MED
MED
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Project Purpose

• To provide technical assistance and management
  support to help the ANRS implement its Regional
  Food Security Program under RHPP SO of USAID/Eth.

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Implementation

• AMAREW Project Implementation started in
  earnest after the kick-off workshop of September
  2002 when the original four members of the
  long-term personnel arrived at Bahir Dar.

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PROJECT WORKING AREAS DROUGHT PRONE WOREDAS OF
THE AMHARA REGION
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AMAREW Project intervention woredas
SEKOTA
KOBO
BELESSA
GUBALAFTO
LAY GAINT
TEHULEDERE
DELANTA DAWINT
KALU
GERA KEYA
Research
SIMADA
Extension
MED
ExtensionMED
All converge
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Yeku, SEKOTA
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6 7 meters
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Lenche Dima, Guba Lafto
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Achievements and progress
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Adaptive Research Number of on-farm
trials and demonstrations
NO. Intervention Components Research Centers Research Centers Research Centers Research Centers
NO. Intervention Components Adet Sirinka Debre Brhan Sekota
1. Plant Resources 59 27 53 13
2. Natural Resources Management 4 4
3. Animal Feeds, Nutrition and Health 3 4 6
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Technologies recomd and disseminated

• Six barley, five potato, four bread wheat, and
  one groundnut varieties with their production
  packages were identified and recommended in the
  pilot woredas.
• 30 quintals of certified seed of three
  performance proven Striga resistant sorghum
  varieties were introduced from INTSORMIL /
  Purdue University and distributed to hundreds of
  farmers.
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Sorghum Field or Flower Garden?
Striga Menace
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OUR VISION
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Cont.

• Natural Resources and Environmental technologies
  introduced
• Six tree species having good performance and
  high survival
• Single yoke harness drawn by oxen and camel,
  and
• Treadle and chain washer water pump having
  good performance were identified and recommended
  to the pilot woredas

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Extension Service

• Demonstration Planting materials
• potato,
• onion,
• sweet potato
• cassava,
• shallot,
• coffee and apple
• have been made available to farmers in the pilot
  extension woredas to promote horticl production

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cont.

• Skill training materials
• Molding frames for fuel saving stoves
• Sets of materials that would assist in the
  processing and handling of honey and
• Sets of materials that would assist in the
  production of standard fishing nets
• have been made available to support the farmer
  training activity in the extension pilot woredas.

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Watershed Management and Development

• A multi-disciplinary regional Integrated
  Watershed Development Management Team (IWDMT)
  formed to support and oversee policy reforms,
  pilot activities, and community development
  programs in the pilot watersheds established
• Community Watershed Management Organizations
  (CWMOs) established and empowered in the two
  pilot watersheds
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GENDER BALANCED COMMUNITY PARTICPATION
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PLANNING WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS
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Watershed contd

• Holistic and integrated watershed management
  plans have been developed with the full
  participation of communities and stakeholders and
  their implementation is under progress
• Area closures created in the two pilot
  watersheds have become social closures with no
  armed guards or fences, but only due to the
  agreement reached among the community members to
  self-police and exclude animals and to avoid
  cutting of vegetation.
• Used R2D food resources to implement activities

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Training Long-term
No. Training category Partner organization Partner organization Total
No. Training category ARARI BOA Total
1. M.S.degree 3 2 5
2. Summer B.S.degree 10 10
3. Regular B.S. degree 3 3
Total Total Total Total 18
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Training of Trainers (ToT)

• Best option to reach DAs was ToT at ATVET
  colleges
• Taught over 300 ATVET faculty and administrators

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Home Science Agent Situation

• Extension Communications and Home Science made
  one area of Expertise
• Pilot Woreda Training conducted in June 03 with
  experts from the US

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Educational study tour

• In-country educational study tours were organized
  for 18 extension experts, 8 DAs and 43 farmers.
• In-country educational tour was organized for
  eight researchers of ARARI.
• Eleven researchers of ARARI were sent to India
  for educational and technology shopping tour.
• Facilitated the trip of four officials from BoA
  and BoRD to join the India team with SIDA
  financial support.

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Micro-Enterprise Development

• Assisted in finalizing Mgt Info System for ACSI
• A study of existing and potential markets in
  Eastern Amhara was carried out with the
  assistance of a group of business students at
  Bahir Dar University (BDU).
• Contributed to capacity building of ACSI and
  MSEIDB staff

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The way forward

• USAID Missions new strategic direction in
  Economic growth
• - Breaking the cycle of famine
• - Strengthening agricultural production systems
• - Management and utilization of Nat. Resources
• - Increased access to input and output markets
• - Strengthening Micro-enterprise develt
• - Improved land tenure security for small holder
  farmers

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AMAREWs compatibility with the new strategic
directions of the USAID Mission

• Actively working in
• Agr. system improvement through strengthening and
  effectively linking research and extension
  Paradigm Shift
• Improving household level food prodn and
  producty Improving Food Security
• Integrated watershed and nat. resources
  management
• Micro enterprise development and market promotion
• Assisting in the implementation of the new
  regional land use certification system
• Strengthening the capacity of local institutions
• Addressing key cross cutting issues

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The future of these children is at stake!!!
AMAREW believes, Development intervention is a
more sustainable and dignified option than food
aid
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Acknowledgements

• USAID (for funding the project)
• The ANRS Partners (as implementers and owners of
  the AMAREW Project)
• FSPCO, BoA, ARARI, EPLAUA,ACSI, MSEIDB, R2D

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• THANK YOU!