KEY RESULTS
- Households actively participating in USAID resilience interventions in Ethiopia’s lowlands experienced a 50 percent lower decline in food security than non-participating households during the extended 2015 to 2017 drought.
- During times of drought, USAID provides subsidies to livestock traders. These small subsidies helped cover the cost of transport, feed, and veterinary services, which helped livestock reach feedlots and markets. Because of USAID’s help, producers are able to get a fair price and traders are able to stay in business. Since 2017, with a subsidy of $78,000, USAID leveraged over $1.4 million in livestock sales that would have otherwise died due to the drought.
- From 2020 to 2021 USAID’s in-depth assistance on flood disaster preparedness and response in five sub-districts reduced the number of people affected by floods from 24,000 to only 600. More than 5,000 households relocated to safe zones before flooding occurred in 2021.
KEY ADAPTATION PROGRAMS
- USAID’s Household Economy Approach uses novel methods of identifying vulnerable households to provides climate-related monitoring, analysis, forecasting, and early warning capacity to local communities and local disaster risk management authorities
- USAID’s Disaster Leadership activity partners with young professionals to build a corps of disaster risk management professions, with skills including strengthening climate and disaster risk analysis and community-based contingency planning.
NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
In Ethiopia USAID promotes sustainable forest, agricultural, and community land management to address the causes of land use change, promote sustainable livelihoods, and increase the effectiveness of environmental policies. Protecting forests and other key ecosystems sustains livelihoods, mitigates climate change risks, and maintains environmental services like biodiversity preservation, carbon capture, and water purification.
KEY RESULTS
- Invested in soil and water conservation of 63,614 hectares of land, including planting over 42 million tree seedlings.
- Mapped 4 million hectares of rangeland using satellite vegetation data to enable herders to manage their grazing lands.
- Supported 23 sub-districts to develop community-level disaster risk management assessments and action plans. USAID also provided training on climate vulnerability analysis.
KEY NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS PROGRAMS
- Feed the Future Ethiopia Highlands Resilience activity supports highland communities and households to strengthen their climate resilience and to pursue sustainable livelihoods that adapt to climate change impacts.
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