Ethiopia

Project overview

The main objective of the project was to protect the livelihood assets of the most vulnerable populations in drought-affected areas of Oromia and Somali regions. This was achieved by improving access to livestock feed and water for core breeding and milking animals, access to animal health services and unconditional cash transfers to drought affected pastoral and agro-pastoral households. Through this CERF grant, FAO and its partners reached a total of 310,269 affected people (83,773 women, 80,670 men, 74,464 girls, boys 71,362). Some 5 million livestock were treated with animal health services, 75,000 people received supplementary feed for their livestock, and 55,000 people received unconditional cash transfers. Overall, assistance had a positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of the assisted people. The support enabled beneficiaries to preserve their livestock assets from worsening drought conditions and to meet their immediate household needs through the unconditional cash transfer as well as to avert the possible adoption of negative coping mechanisms. Moreover, through the provision of livestock health services including vaccination and treatment of animals, the assistance decreased the susceptibility of the livestock to common diseases.