2nd Quarterly
Feed the Future Partners
Coordination Meeting
Planned FTF Projects to be launched
in 2012
May 3, 2012
Livestock Growth Program (AGP-LGP)
PIF Alignment
Budget
Project Duration
Implementer/Status
AGP
$38-$40 million
2011-2015
Under procurement
Goal: to improve smallholder incomes and nutritional status through
investments in selected livestock value chains
• Increase productivity & competitiveness of selected livestock value
chains to the benefit of smallholders
• Improve Enabling Environment for Livestock Value Chains
• Improve quality and diversity of household diet through intake of
livestock products
Value chain Focus: Dairy, meat/live animals and Hides, Skins and
Leather (HSL)
Push/Pull: create market linkages through livestock value chains for
pastoralists and PSNP households.
Cross-cutting: Access for finance/credits, ICT, HIV/AIDS and gender
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Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market
Expansion (PRIME)
PIF Alignment
Budget
Project Duration
Implementer/Status
HABP
$40 – $50 million
2012-2016
Under procurement
Goal: to increase household incomes and enhance resilience and
adaptive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through
market linkages
• Improve productivity and competitiveness of livestock and livestock
products
• Enhance pastoralists adaptation to climate change
• Create Alternative livelihoods for Households’ Transitioning Out of
Pastoralism (TOPS)
• Enhance innovation, learning and knowledge management
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Finance and Business Services (FaBS)
PIF Alignment
Budget
Project Duration
Implementer/Status
N/A
TBD
2012-2016
Under procurement
Goal: to substantially improve private sector competitiveness in general,
and of financial intermediation in particular, as key drivers of sustainable
economic growth and reduced poverty in Ethiopia.
IR.1. Broaden the financial sector to foster private sector development
and competitiveness
IR.2. Enhance capacity of private sector to effectively promote reforms
& Improve business development services for small and medium
enterprise
IR.3. Promote increased trade development and market linkages,
particularly under the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
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Broadening the financial sector
 Establish institutional framework for the identification, analysis and
diffusion of financial instruments suited for agriculture and other
underserved market segments
 Increase the capacity of both private bank staff and non-bank actors
to properly assess and determine risks associated with financial
transactions
 Promote the adoption of internationally recognized accounting
standards
 establish both regulatory framework and financial products suited for
Islamic or sharia
 promote conducive environment for long term capital/investment
funds management in Ethiopia.
Addressing banking needs of Ethiopia’s Islamic
Communities
 Develop and expand use of credit enhancement tools to stimulate bank/nonbanks actors to introduce/expand use of non-traditional credit/financing
mechanisms (i.e. leasing, account receivable, pension funds and Insurance);
 Increase client-oriented product development processes as well as risk
management practices in the financial sector - including increased
understanding/use of credit rating /information sharing systems and
improved regulatory environment for capital market operations;
 Adoption of international audit, reporting practices, including the use of
twining arrangements to promote the transfer of best practices in
commercial bank management;
 development and deployment of both deposit and credit products that are
sharia compliant; disaggregated by those communities with high Muslim
populations, namely, Somalia, Afar and Oromia regions.
 Development of a comprehensive technical assistance program aimed at
maximizing the leveraging potential of the USAID/DCA program to stimulate
lending/provision of credit to underserved communities, including
agriculture SMEs, Islamic communities and other under-served sectors.
Improved BDS services and policy environment for
private Sector competitiveness
 Increase the capacity of the Chambers and trade associations to
provide effective services;
 Increase the capacity of Business Development Service providers to
deliver cost-effective, efficient services, particularly along selected
value chains;
 Raise the capacity of the Chamber system to participate in GOE
sponsored dialogues and service their membership; and
 strengthen ability of BDS providers to better address credit/financial
constraints of SMEs
Promote increased trade development and market
linkages, particularly under the African Growth and
Opportunity Act.
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Promote economic growth and reduce poverty, by enabling Ethiopian
firms to take advantage of the opportunities created by trade;
improve Ethiopia’s trade policies, remove trade barriers, build wellfunctioning trade facilitation and promotion institutions and improve
regulatory policies that affect the way firms trade;
assist private sector stakeholders to maximize opportunities/play more
active role in Ethiopia’s bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO)
and other international trade agreements that can act as an anchor for
critical national reforms that promote good economic governance at
national, regional and international forums.
US Peace Corps Feed-The-Future Volunteers
PIF Alignment
Budget
Project Duration
Implementer/Status
N/A
N/A
2012-2014
US Peace Corps
Goal: to increase the capacity of partner communities to help promote
their food security
• Over two years 70 volunteers at cooperative unions , regional and
local Ministry of Agriculture offices, and Ministry of Health clinics
• Areas of focus include: agroforestry, small scale gardening, maternal
child nutrition and education
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