USAID/Ethiopia is seeking comments & suggestions on a draft Program Description (PD) for the implementation of the Pastoralists Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) program. PRIME program is aimed at improving resiliency & adaptive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through market expansion. PRIME will be implemented in selected pastoral and agro-pastoral districts (Woredas) of Somali, Afar and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia.
This is a request for comments & suggestions and not a Request for Application (RFA). Organizations eligible to compete, experts in the area and other interested parties are invited to submit comments and suggestions on the draft PD. Eligible organizations are strongly encouraged to review the document and provide comments.
The purpose of posting this draft PD is to enhance the quality of the PD. Therefore, comments and suggestions received may be considered during the finalization of the PD.
About PRIME Program
USAID/Ethiopia intends to award a five-year cooperative agreement under the US Government’s Feed the Future Initiative, Global Climate Change Initiative and Global Health Initiative through a competitive Full and Open RFA.
PRIME’s overall goal is to reduce hunger and poverty. The project objective is to increase household incomes and enhance resilience and adaptive capacity to climate change through market linkages. The design and implementation of the project is based on the interaction between ‘climate change, pastoralism/livestock and chronic vulnerability’.
The attainment of these objectives will be through a multiple approach:
fostering the growth and competitiveness of livestock value chains;
addressing the needs of the very poor and chronically food insecure households through reaching down to this population through value chain interventions and addressing their needs through interventions;
improving the policy environment through a continuous evaluation and learning process through collaboration and linkages; and
improving delivery of human health services and behavior changes.
Last date for submission of comments is Oct 18, 2011.
For more information, visit this link and search by Funding Opportunity Number. ETHIOPIA-PRIME
