📋 Tender Overview
Country: Ethiopia Funding amount: €300,000.00 Start: April 1, 2022 End: March 31, 2025
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The aim of this agricultural training project is to equip the predominantly rural Afar society and people from the urban environment in Afar, Ethiopia, with skills and knowledge to diversify their traditional agriculture and crop production, produce nutritious food and market the harvest surplus. This is intended to contribute to sustainable sources of income. (Contribution to SDG 1,2,3,5,10).
expected results
1. The agricultural training center will be used as a training room, cultivation area and community room for pastoralists of the Afar society.
2. 480 pastoralists (360 women, 120 youth) and 240 volunteer trainees from the urban neighborhood have strengthened their skills and are able to plan and carry out food cultivation to generate surpluses and share their skills.
3. 360 women from the Afar society act as leading coordinators in their communities and are recognized as experts in cultivation, marketing and nutrition issues.
target group
The direct beneficiaries of the project are 720 people in the Afar region who will participate in two-month training courses to acquire skills and knowledge about growing crops and marketing them. Of the 480 participants, 360 are women and 120 male young people from 24 communities, as well as a total of 240 additional young people and women being trained from the nearby town of Logya. Indirect beneficiaries are around 16,800 people in the 24 municipalities of the Afar Region.
Measures
The measures include: establishing the training center in Ududayto and setting up the corresponding administration and infrastructure; Training women and young people from rural areas in cultivation and marketing; Carrying out the cultivation of food through the distribution of small seeds; Selection and support of female counselors from the 24 communities and regular support of the counselors; Establishment of market cooperatives; Selection of voluntary trainees from urban areas; Project support and advisory visits from various actors; ongoing support for women and participants in cultivation and marketing after completing the training.
background information
The project aims to create a long-term resilience program to combat increasing malnutrition and undernourishment in the Afar region. The project aims to introduce the predominantly rural Afar society to modern environmentally friendly agriculture (permaculture with multiple use of traditional and new products) and food processing in order to equip them with alternatives for times of food shortages, as well as to introduce them to strategies for generating income from future crop surpluses. The people of the Afar region are suffering massively from the consequences of climate change and alternative ways to improve food security and prevent hunger crises are urgently needed. As a nomadic people, the Afar live from su
