FY-2009 Horn Food Price Crisis Response for Ethiopia

Post Date

October 28th 2008

Application Due Date

April 27th 2009

Funding Opportunity Number

OFDA-FY09-002-APS

CFDA Number(s)

98.001

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Agriculture

Number of Awards

5

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $30000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $30000000

Grant Description

USAID/OFDA anticipates awarding multiple cooperative agreements as a result of this APS, targeting interventions in specific zones within Oromiya, Somali, and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples regions in Ethiopia. The global food crisis has affected households around the world, but has had a particularly harsh impact on the most vulnerable families in developing nations. Vulnerable populations in the Horn of Africa region can be described in three types: pastoral, agro-pastoral, and marginal farming households. OFDA is seeking to adopt new approaches to providing assistance that, where possible, will address the root causes of food insecurity, rather than continually providing inputs to poor households each year at higher and higher costs. The broad goals of this APS for Ethiopia are to: • Stabilize humanitarian indicators in food insecure households through humanitarian assistance activities designed to protect existing household assets; • Rebuild livelihoods and household resiliency to shocks through the diversification and creation of household assets; and, • Improve economic opportunities through improved market linkages in support of the predominate agricultural and livestock sectors.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Agency for International Development

• Office:

  None

• Agency Contact:

  Pamela Scott
  Grants Specialist
  Phone 202-661-9371

• Agency Mailing Address:

  pascott@usaid.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  pascott@usaid.gov