Pastoralists Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME)

Post Date

February 17th 2012

Application Due Date

March 27th 2012

Funding Opportunity Number

663-12-000005

CFDA Number(s)

98.001

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Agriculture

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $48750000

• Award Range:

  $3000000 - $48750000

Grant Description

Pastoralists Areas Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) is a five year project aimed to increase household incomes and improve the resiliency and adaptive capacity of pastoral communities to climate change through market expansion. PRIME will be implemented in selected districts (woredas) of Somali, Afar and Oromia Regions targeting 250,000 households as direct beneficiaries PRIMEуs overall goal is to reduce hunger and poverty. The project objective is to increase household incomes and enhance resilience to climate change through market linkages. The design and implementation of the project is based on the interaction between тclimate change, pastoralism/livestock and chronic vulnerabilityу The attainment of these objectives is through a multiple approach; (a) fostering the growth and competitiveness of livestock value chains; (b) 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; (c) improving the policy environment through a continuous evaluation and learning process through collaboration and linkages.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Agency for International Development

• Office:

  Ethiopia USAID-Addis Ababa

• Agency Contact:

  Satish Kumar
  Senior Contracts Specialist
  Phone 231-77098706

• Agency Mailing Address:

  skumar@usaid.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  skumar@usaid.gov