Project Highlights

1. Project Highlights

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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, 2002:v) • Regional food security program • Increase agricultural production and productivity as well as income of rural households

5. 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

6. Complementing interests USAID RHPP SO ANRS STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS AMAREW PROJECT

7. THE AMAREW CONSORTIUM VIRGINIA TECH (EXTENSION AND RESEARCH) VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY (EXTENSION AND RESEARCH with VT) ACDI/VOCA (MED) CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WATERSHED)

8. PROJECT COMPONENTS CROSS CUTTING ISSUES PART I PART II RESEARCH MED HIV/AIDS GENDER EXTENSION CAPACITY BUILDING WATERSHED

9. PARTNERSHIP BoA ARARI MSEIDB AMAREW PROJECT FSPCO BoRD ACSI EPLAUA R2D

10. Ethiopian Collaborator institutions • Alemaya University • Bahir Dar University • Debub University • Mekele University • Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization (EARO)

11. 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

12. Integration and operational modality WATERSHED LEVEL EXTENSION WOREDA LEVEL WATERSHED RESEARCH EXTENSION RESEARCH EXTENSION MED MED

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. PROJECT WORKING AREAS DROUGHT PRONE WOREDAS OF THE AMHARA REGION

16. AMAREW Project intervention woredas SEKOTA BELESSA KOBO LAY GAINT GUBALAFTO TEHULEDERE DELANTA DAWINT KALU GERAKEYA Research SIMADA Extension MED Extension+MED All converge

17. Yeku, SEKOTA

18. 6 – 7 meters

19. Lenche Dima, Guba Lafto

21. Achievements and progress

22. Adaptive ResearchNumber of on-farm trials and demonstrations

23. Technologies recom’d 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.

24. Sorghum Field or Flower Garden? Striga Menace

25. OUR VISION

26. 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

27. 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 hortic’l production

28. 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.

29. 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

30. GENDER BALANCED COMMUNITY PARTICPATION

31. PLANNING WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS

32. Watershed cont’d • 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

33. Training: Long-term

35. Training of Trainers (ToT) • Best option to reach DAs was ToT at ATVET colleges • Taught over 300 ATVET faculty and administrators

36. 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

37. 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.

38. 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

39. The way forward USAID Mission’s 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 devel’t - Improved land tenure security for small holder farmers

40. AMAREW’s 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 prod’n and product’y – 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

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

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

43. THANK YOU!