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Programme Activities
The Joint Ethio-Danish Development Program (JP) is implemented in Kobo and Habru Woredas of North Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region.
The JP has three components in Education, Agriculture, and Health sectors and it has been developed and implemented with the objectives of improving the food security status, strengthening local capacity to enable the target population to cope with current and future disasters, and to increase knowledge within the field of development-oriented relief programmes in the intervention areas and participating organizations.
The components are: Education, Agriculture, and Health implemented by three Ethiopian NGOs; Save the Children/DK (Red Barnet) responsible for the education sector, Lutheran World Federation/Department for World Service/Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (LWF-WS/EECMY) handles the agriculture sector, and Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) manages the health component. These three NGOs have direct linkage with three counterpart Danish NGOs (Red Barnet, DanChurchAid, and Danish Red Cross) that handle the overall programmatic and financial matters of the program and the relations with the donor, Danida. The JP employs a partnership strategy among Danish NGOs (DRC, DCA, and RB), Ethiopian NGOs (LWF/EECMY, ERCS, and SCD), corresponding sectoral line departments of the government at various levels and local administration. This partnership strategy is unique in its nature since it involves various stakeholders with sectoral expertise and interests.
- Danchurchaid is responsible for the agricultural component in collaboration with the Lutheran World Federation (LWF/EECMY)
- Danish Red Cross is responsible for the health component in collaboration with the Ethiopian Red Cross Society
- Save the Children, Denmark, is responsible for the education component in collaboration with Save the Children Danmark in Ethiopia
On top of these actors within the JP, there are an additional entity, the Impact Study Team that are responsible for studying the changes/impacts of the program upon the target community and local institutions, and on the basis of the findings of the studies contribute to the enhancement of the planning/implementation of the projects and documenting/generating relevant information about the progress of the JP, respectively.
The Institute of International Studies (ISS, former Center for Development Research) is responsible for the research component.
There are Joint Secretariats in Addis Ababa and in Copenhagen in charge of coordinating, contacts with DANIDA, information activities, joint reporting, a.o.
The Programme has been operating in North Wollo since 1997 and is being financed by the Danish Government (DANIDA). The 3rd Phase of the Programme is expected to end in 2004.
The three NGO's are operating in the same 23 kebeles (villages) in the two woredas (administrative unit) Habru Woreda and Kobo Woreda has been assisted during the first and second Phase (1997-2001) of the Programme. |
