devinitorg/iati-policy-markers huggingface dataset:
Ladders of Livelihood  for People Infected and Affected by HIV Ethiopia is ranked 174/187 in the 2011 HDI while 2.4 % of the adult population is living with HIV. The average urban prevalence of HIV is 7.7 % which is relatively high compared to the average rural prevalence of 0.9%. The situation is worse in Addis Ababa where 9.2% of the adult population is living with HIV.  

Since 2005, the Government provides free ART for Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) alongside support services that promote adherence. Hence people should be able to live longer, have healthier lives and be physically able to work. In Ethiopia, increased access to ART, led to significant change in the health condition of This should encourage PLHIV to develop long term plans for their livelihoods and to work on their financial security.   

Recurring ill health and time spent to take care of sick family members’ limits working the regular hours. In addition, during times of crisis, economic assets are sold to meet the consumption needs.  Production resources are currently absent to build the livelihoods of the PLHIV and/or their families. The problem is cyclical. Livelihoods insecurity erodes coping mechanisms. This leads to ill health, poor nutrition, low ART adherence, reduced income/assets/savings, financial dependency, reduced access to services and support structures, low self-esteem and instability of housing and living environment. 

Households of PLHIV are central to our strategy. 525 PLHIV households with 2152 family members  including men, women and children living with and affected by HIV will directly benefit. The project is designed to support beneficiaries in the journey from dependency and subsistence living to meeting their own basic needs and enjoying sustainable livelihoods and regular household income. 

Because of the fact that each individual within the target group has his/her own needs, vulnerabilities, capacities and characteristics, support will be tailored to the needs and gaps identified at an individual level.

The proposed project will result into households of PLHIV and other families affected by HIV that will lead productive and dignified lives, benefiting from increased incomes and improved livelihoods through access to business development services, credit/savings and financial capital and realising their rights to services that enables them to be healthy, confident, resilient and productive. 

CAFOD will realise the project with two of its partners, namely Brother of Good works (BGW ) who have been working in the area of HIV  during the past years.  BGW has rich experiences in livelihood support to PLHIV as well other HIV services including psychosocial accompaniment of PLHIV and their families. The program supported by the partner was established by Medical Missionaries of Mary as one of the pioneer HIV program which was instrumental to the establishment of many HIV organisations and CBOs in Ethiopia.  

 This project is expected to start on 01 November 2012 for a period of 17 months.
Institutional support to the Christian Relief and Development Association (CRDA) This is a one year grant to enable a long-established partner and the main civil society network in Ethiopia to review and decide its strategic direction which will include:

Establishing a clear sense of organisational purpose, understood by all stakeholders
Establishing a clear membership policy
Establishing clear plans to transform the organisation to meet the organisational purpose 
Plans that will have clear targets for assessing organisational impact and 
management structures that reflect the organisational purpose, and enhance organisational effectiveness
ERG funding for Ethiopia via Trócaire 1. Covid 19 Scale Up response Ethiopia
Approval #1 Funding to Trócaire for Covid 19 Scale Up Response, Ethiopia as funding for Emergency Response for Vulnerable Households in Addis Ababa and Tigray region. 
Approval #2 for WASH in Tigray
Approval #3 Emergency Relief for conflict induced IDPs in Tigray
Covid-19 Readiness & Response project (Core Project) Ref HIB102 The project focuses on preventive measures eg providing awareness raising to target communities about Covid-19 using different tools such as leaflets, local radio, posters and the like and in addition, distribution of hygiene materials to needy households. Additional strengthening of the existing health institutions of the Church in different regions, as the Catholic Church is the second health service provider in the Country. These activities are mainly done in collaboration with local government health offices.
Will Writing to Safeguard Children A pilot project was initiated and implemented for the last 3 years with the conviction that one of the causes for the vulnerability of Orphan and Vulnerable Children is a failure to reinforce their succession and inheritance rights. A joint study made in 2003 indicated, “A considerable number of AIDS orphans are expelled from their parents home following the death of their parents” (MICU, 2003,p.11) Most wills in Ethiopia continue to be expressed orally, at the last hours of a dying person, usually to a “religious or spiritual father “, and may well not be enforced.

Accordingly, this project aims to encourage more formal will writing, so that guardianship arrangements can be made in advance of the death of parents, and so that the property rights of orphans can be protected.  

A series of review discussion made at the end of 2009 indicated that the pilot project, which was implemented with ACS and OSSA, has been successful in achieving the expected outcomes set at the beginning of the project. At the end of the 2009, 30 % and 33 % of households reached through ACS and OSSA respectively prepared their Wills. This is more than the target set at the beginning i.e at least 25% will prepare will. The review also indicated there are many Idir members who are convinced but are undergoing preparation for Will writing such as identifying guardians for their children. Idirs are traditional community based funeral associations that have been involved in development in the last 2 decades

Moreover, the pilot project was successful in terms of producing materials to be used in the future including training manual, education packages for mass sensitization and house to house education, and templates to be used in preparing a will. A documentary film, describing the major achievements of the project, is being produced for disseminating the learning for a wider audience at national and international level.

Based on the learning recorded so far, this project tries to reach a total of 9,000 new households in the next two years by each organisation. It is estimated that this effort will at least benefit 27,000 children that are living under these households. The project is also intended to involve many other organisations including Donors.
Ethiopia Civil Society Development - CAFOD Grant HIB-13-02 Civil Society Development grant from CAFOD.
To enhance the capacity of Ethiopian men and women especially the poor and marginalised to constructively and effectively engage and influence decisions towards peaceful and dignifying lives.
MMM Integrated HIV Project The joint office is providing an institutional support to the MMM's to based on their five year strategic plan. The planned activities by the MMM's were developed as per the strategic plan. Changes that the project hopes to bring about include:
Increased health Seeking behaviour 
A caring and Compassionate family environment for PLWHA's
Improved quality of life for PLWHA's
Civil Society Network Organisational Development The project plans to:
•	Improve the functioning of civil society networks 
•	Improve administration and management in the four network organisations
•	Build the networks’ capacity to monitor and evaluate public policy and improving lobbying and advocacy capabilities 
•	Improve research capacity within the networks
•	Increase networks and their members’ skills in applying for and managing donor funds
Improving Livelihood status of the people at Arato and Maytsedo PA of Enderta Woreda The project site Arato and Maytsedo Peasant Associations (PAs) is located in Enderta Woreda/district, Tigray Region. This area is one of the drought prone and food insecure areas in the Region. According to the rapid needs assessment done by ADCS in the two Peasant Associations poor crop and livestock production and productivity; dependency on rain-fed cultivation and erratic pattern of rainfall; less income opportunity of the community other than crop production; Natural Resource Degradation and Poor Management of Existing Natural Resources and shortage of potable water were identified. Based on these facts, the main goal of the project is to contribute to the attainment of food security in a sustainable manner for the community of Arato and Maytsedo PAs of the woreda/district. 
The project will focus on building water reservoir and  irrigation canals, provision of training on different agricultural practice including agribusiness; rehabilitation of galleys by constructing check dams and enriching the existing closure areas and introduction of cut and carry livestock feeding system; diversify the income opportunity of targeted beneficiaries by providing Shoats, improved poultry breeds, Begait Cows(improved local diary cows ) and bee-colonies; and construction of  four boreholes and three hand dug wells.
The project is a three year project and it is expected that 2660 HH are going to benefit directly from the project.
Promotion of Reconciliation and Conflict Transformation through Community Participation The Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat Justice and Peace Unit has assessed the pressing needs to be addressed in various jurisdictions of the Catholic Church in the country with special focus of ACS Combolcha coordination office, Soddo and Jimma Bonga Vicariates and would like to promote human dignity and peace based worldview in collaboration with community and religious leaders and respective civil authorities. Therefore the project will focus on continuous work of strengthen human and institutional capacity of peace building in the selected areas of diocesan settings.  

Accordingly, the Ethiopian Catholic Secretariat and Diocesan Catholic Secretariats identified the following needs to be addressed in the project implementation areas: 
•	Lack of respect of minorities’ rights 
•	Religious tension/conflicts 
•	Harmful traditional practice 
•	Resource and identity based Ethnic conflicts 
•	Corruption and nepotism, 
•	Violation of unborn child/abortion 
•	Illegal movement of small arms and light weapons 
•	Drug and alcohol abuses and related youth problems
Thus, in collaboration with the concerned partners such as donors, community, religious organizations and respective local and regional government authorities especially Administration and Security Affairs, and prison administration the ECS Peace and Justice Unit would like to engage in the promotion of human dignity and building sustainable peace and create a culture of mutual appreciation and respect. In view of promoting the fundamental values of human dignity, reconciliation through justice and peace activities at the grass roots level, the Catholic Church identified key actors of social change within respective communities, religious leaders and government officials.
Appropriate food aid for vulnerable people in Borena This project (which will last 4 months)  aims to ensure that vulnerable pastoralsit groups living in rural areas in drought-stricken Borena have immediate access to emergency cash transfer and food supplies, while protecting thier livelihoods through a participatory rangeland management activities.

Linked to the Cash/Food provision, the participatory rangeland management interventions involves the poor but productive targeted pastoralist households in the establishment and CFW management of 600 hectares communally managed drought grazing reserves (100 hectares in each District) during the project life time.  The devloped/rehabilitated rangeland will be set aside and grazed under normal conditions. 

The rangeland management activity will build on traditional rangeland management practices that the Borana pastoralists have been exercising for centuries as well as scientific findings in the field of range land management.  To ensure this, the project will organize meeting with the community and customary leaders to identify and agree on the specific rangeland areas and to prioritize those which are of strategic importance (guaranteeing that local grazing management systems are not compromised) and also to further research the concern of resiliency and vulnerability with respect to the viability of pastoral livelihoods.  The participatory rangeland management work will also be informed by the National Guidelines on Participatory Rangeland Management in Pastoral Areas.
Livelihoods Learning To provide institutional support to HUNDEE so that it is better able to execute its plans in the areas of rural and civil society development in the Oromia region.
Assessment on the role of actors in girls/women trafficking This project aims to review key policies and research findingsin Ethiopia to promote the dialogue and collaboration among different actors to address root causes of women and girls trafficking in Ethiopia. Thousands of Ethiopian women are trafficked illegally to the Middle East as housemaids per annum and many of these migrants have become victims of psychologicall, physical and sexual abuses and even many cases of murder have been reported in the country of destination. The abuses of women take place at all chains of trafficking abuse by traffickers during the journey, crews controlling sea-crossings, violent attacks from criminal gangs and abuse by their employers to mention some. As many married women leave their children behind, children are also victims due to lack of appropriate care from their mothers.  

As indicated by study by ILO, majority of the migrant women (57%) are from the families of poor and marginalized people and earn less than 300 Birr (about 10 pound sterling per month) and lack education, information and are mainly driven by agitation of traffickers. 

Addressing these issues requires the involvement of different actors which have direct relevance to the problem such as government which is responsible for putting appropriate policies and laws in place, traffickers involved in the action, embassies who are issuing visa and victims themselves. Despite few efforts by government and non-governmental institutions, there is no mechanism for collaborative engagement among different actors and hence this problem is continuing to be a biggest challenge for majority of women and children in the country.      

Therefore, this project aims to review policies and research findings related to trafficking of women/girls in Ethiopia to promote collaboration for joint action with key government ministries, embassiesand other relevant stakeholders.

The project will be implemented will be implemented by the Union of Ethiopian Charitable Association (UEWCA) in partnership with the Joint Ethiopia office of CAFOD, SCIAF and Trocaire. In this regard, through review of relevant policies and key research recommendation, the project will identify key gaps, identify key actions by different actors through joint dialogue.
Horn of Africa Drought Response Evaluation Report Trocaire, CAFOD and SCIAF work as a join office in Ethiopia (CST). It was agreed that a review of the Horn of Africa Drought Response was needed and this is CAFOD's contribution to the cost of the Evaluation.
Ethiopia HIV & AIDS Response Programme - CAFOD Grant HIB-13-03 Ethiopia HIV & AIDS Response Programme grant from CAFOD.
Civil Society Development consultancy "	To undertake preliminary discussions with the Joint Trócaire/CAFOD team in Addis Ababa on the scope of the emerging Civil Society Development Programme - helping us take stock of where we've come from, and take a critical look at the future, helping the Team move from 'organic' to 'intentional' mode: this includes helping the team to sharpen the Programme Proposal Document and to identify longer term strategies and impact indicators, and the ways and means of monitoring these.
"	To participate in a team discussion about the EC Civil Society Call for Proposals (scheduled for May). The emphasis of this call is on international NGOs assisting the building of capacities of the Ethiopian NGOs to be able to apply for EC funds when the next Call is made. You will help the Joint Team to think through options for developing a proposal to submit by July and, if appropriate, may help in the development of that proposal.
"	In support of this, you will undertake some focused interviews with key Addis-based reps of partners and a few telephone interviews with partners outside Addis, which will provide useful input into the proposal development. It is possible that a 1.5 day trip to Tigray may be undertaken.
"	To help the Joint team consider its own capacity needs as the Civil Society Programme grows. It is currently over dependent on the resources of the Joint Country Representatives - but it is not easy to see exactly what kinds of additional capacity would enrich rather than over-complicate the Team.
Institutional capacity building support The main objective of the project is to build operational capacity of NeCSOO to promote members’ downward accountability to citizens they are serving and help strengthen partnership/relationships between NGOs and the Regional Government. 

The project primarily benefits NeCSOO through enabling the organization to begin delivering services within its mandate. The 19 member NGOs benefit from the project as soon as NeCSOO starts facilitation and coordination of their activities particularly with regards to creating conducive working environment though active engagement with the regional government. The regional government in charge of NGOs affairs will gain useful result because of the mutual understanding to be created in the process of establishing strong partnership through strengthening government and NGOs dialogue forum. Target communities will also enjoy the benefit of improved accountability and transparency of the member NGOs in the course of implementing their projects/ programs.
Institutionalization of local community Ethiopia, is a mountainous country with tens of thousands of sub-watersheds, is heavily dependent on its natural resource base. Owing to the rapid growth of population, insufficient agricultural production, low off-farm sector production and concomitant developmental changes, the natural resources particularly watersheds are being over exploited to meet the basic needs of the people. Financially as well as biophysically fragile country’s government only cannot bear all the expenses for the watershed rehabilitation planning. Hence, other sectors such as LNGOs, INGOs and communities were the most essential proxies in Ethiopia which participated in watershed rehabilitation. However most watershed rehabilitation projects can hardly be termed a success, as many integrated rural watershed rehabilitation projects failed to deliver lasting (sustainable) benefits. In these watersheds, it was initially noted that, while rehabilitation emerged magnificent change was recorded by investing the vital wealth of money; the land that was ultimately rehabilitated is now ecologically degraded by exploitation. In short, the rehabilitated watersheds were back to their original position in-fact with a more devastation.
A number of factors contributed to the failure of rehabilitated watersheds. These include lack of an effective and sustainable benefit to the community, lack of effective ownership and leadership in management with in watersheds and lack of interest (negligence) on the part of farmers in protecting the rehabilitated watersheds.
This project is directed towards addressing the gaps identified during the rehabilitation program and later on after the results of the research held in the watersheds. Among these gaps include the need to establish watershed legal institutions that will be used in assessing the program’s development impact to the community and to the environment (health of watershed). This project will try also to see the need to legalize all the program’s experiences and insights among different stakeholders. 

This project is a pilot project which is going to be implemented in two watersheds, Tsememti &Adinehibe which are located in Eastern Tigray. The infrastructure of the Watersheds was build by the Productive Safety Net Programme of the government .This project will only see the software part of the watershed management .WOLAS is going to give awareness raising training to the households found in the Watershed, facilitate election of watershed Committee, give training to the Committee and facilitate to have a legal entity and help them to design their own by law. At the end of the project the communities will be able to manage their Watersheds through a legalized institution and by law. The result of this project will be shared among our Livelihood partners, as most of them have a natural resource management component in their projects which is vital for its sustainability.
Ethiopia Relief and Rehabilitation Programme - CAFOD Grant To alleviate human suffering and create more resilient communities by mitigating the risk of crisis negatively impacting on communities in the long term, predicting crisis in advance and preparing communities; and effectively responding to crisis as and when they occur.     

Multi-partner grant managed by CST (CAFOD SCIAF Trócaire working in Partnership) in Ethiopia
ADCS Rural Water Development (through Trocaire and CAFOD Partnership) ·	Objective 1: By the end of year 2006, 16,500 people will have access to potable water, environmental sanitation and personal hygiene practices.  
·	Objective 2: By the end of July 2006, at least 36 individual farmer households have started home gardening in order to guarantee more diversified food and income at household level 
·	Objective 3: By the end of year 2006, degrees of land degradation, soil erosion, water loss will be reduced by 54% in the target Woredas
Afder Livestock Recovery & Capacity Building in Somali Region The purpose of the intervention is to enable 43,286 beneficiary persons to recover from the effects of the drought and regain livestock productivity through healthcare interventions in the districts of Hargele, Charrati,and Elkere by the end of May 2009.