Regional Reports - the European External Action Service

Agriculture, Natural resource & Environment
o Participation of NSA: Farm Africa, SOS Sahel UK, SIM, Catholic Church, etc
o Activities undertaken: Development of Small Scale Irrigation Project, Seed bank, dairy
production, goar breeding and husbandry, generation; soil and water conservation,
participatory and community based forest management, improved land use, Agro
biodiversity and Conservation, capacity building support and skill training.
Agro-pastoral development
o Participant NSA: Ethiopian Pastoral Research & Development, Farm Africa,
o Activities undertaken: Rangeland and pasture development, water supply and sanitation
pastoral livelihood recovery and enhancement; conflict resolution and management
Health
o Participant NSA: ORBIS, SEPDA, SIM, Catholic church, Swiss Evangelical Mission
o Activities undertaken: Reproductive health, FP, post-abortion care, malaria prevention
and control, construction of health facilities (clinics, health post and health centre) health
service provision and health extension programmes, mother and child health (MCH),
comprehensive rural eye care, health workers training and capacity building support for
health institutions.
Child development
o Participant NSA: WCDO, CCF, Hiwot Birhan Church, ABFA, Bereket Orphan,
Bethezata
o Activities undertaken: Child sponsorship, care and support for orphans and abandoned
children, community-based child care, legal aid, counselling support and protection of
child rights, prevention of child trafficking, establish and run child – centre and
integrated child care services.
Integrated development
o Participant NSA: Progynist, Refuge Trust Int., Self-Help Dev Int., SIM, WCDO, WV
Ethiopia
o Activities undertaken: integrated development programme in urban and rural setting
through support for income generation, water, sanitation, health, etc; community – based
development, integrated rural development; multi-purpose community development,
integrated child care and family development services
Education
o Participant NSA: DV, EECMY, Catholic church, Love in Action,
o Activities undertaken: Alternative basic education (ABE), improving access to basic
education and functional literacy, capacity building of schools through material support,
promotion of equity in basic education, literacy empowerment and adult functional
literacy services; construction, renovation and upgrading schools;
HIV-AIDS
o Participation of NSA: Tila Ass WLW/HIV, EECMY, ERSHA, YLM, CISO, GZDA
o Activities undertaken: Empowerment of communities to respond to HIV/AIDS, RH,
FP, HIV/ AIDS Prevention, Care and support for PLW/HIV, sustainable community
participated HIV/AIDS vulnerability reduction and impact mitigation, capacity building
and community – based HIV/AIDS eradication programmes
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