Food and nutrition security - Ethiopia
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The Netherlands mainly focuses its interventions on smallholder farming households with the potential to commercialize. In addition, we support the national safety net program that prevents the need for humanitarian assistance for asset-poor households.
Bilateral programs will have a strong emphasis on their link with national programs. The interventions on dairy and horticulture continue to focus on the sectors where the Netherlands has a proven track record and where there are clear links with the public and private sectors in the Netherlands. These existing projects will transition into a new phase. Moreover, we will invest on interventions that improve soil health and possibly a project combining irrigation and landscape restoration. Additionally, we support capacity building of TVETs.
The Netherlands mainly focuses its interventions on smallholder farming households with the potential to commercialize. In addition, we support the national safety net program that prevents the need for humanitarian assistance for asset-poor households.
Bilateral programs will have a strong emphasis on their link with national programs. The interventions on dairy and horticulture continue to focus on the sectors where the Netherlands has a proven track record and where there are clear links with the public and private sectors in the Netherlands. These existing projects will transition into a new phase. Moreover, we will invest on interventions that improve soil health and possibly a project combining irrigation and landscape restoration. Additionally, we support capacity building of TVETs.
Healthy Village Programme
Max Foundation and Plan International have developed an innovative five-year (2020 – 2025) integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), food and nutrition security programme called the ‘Healthy Village Programme’. The aim of the Programme is to reduce stunting and water- and faecal-borne diseases in a sustainable manner, jointly with the Government of Ethiopia (GoE). The Programme is focusing on reaching approximately 327,500 people that are most vulnerable or do not yet have sufficient access to clean water and sanitation, are food insecure and/or have poor nutritional status.
Through an iterative cycle of implementing, innovating, learning, evidencing and engagement, the Healthy Village Programme serves as evidence based model for ongoing and emerging programmes, e.g. large-scale government or multilateral programmes. While we aim for national impact, field implementation will be in three selected woredas - Shebel Berenta, Goncha Siso Enese and Enebse Sar Medir - of Ethiopia’s Seqota Declaration programme.