USAID Ethiopia: The Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity (PARA) Grant

AMENDMENT NO. 2 to Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) Number-72066319RFA00004 – The Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity (PARA).  

The United States Government (“USG”), represented by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s  (“USAID/ETHIOPIA”) hereby amends the above-referenced NOFO. The NOFO is amended to extend the closing date for submission of short written application from June 28, 2019 to July 8, 2019, 16:00 hours Addis Ababa Time. 

Please let us know if you have an issue with this amendment by email or phone. 

Agency Point of Contacts

Name: Ms. Wubet Zeleke

            Title: Acquisition & Assistance Management Specialist

            USAID/Ethiopia

            Email Addresses: wzeleke@usaid.gov and caddis@usaid.gov

            Telephone: +251 929 929877

Name: Ms. Tigst Yifru

            Title: Acquisition & Assistance Management Specialist

            USAID/Ethiopia

            Email Addresses: tyifru@usaid.gov and caddis@usaid.gov

            Telephone: +251 929 929915

Thank you for considering this USAID initiative.

 The Pastoral AreasResilience Activity consists of core activities and crisis modifieractivities.  The core activities willtarget 250,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in 30 or more selecteddistricts (Woredas) of Oromia, Somali, Afar and potentially South Omo bytackling the root causes of vulnerability for lowlands households to improvetheir capacity to withstand and recover from climate and conflict relatedshocks and stresses. These include weak disaster risk management capacity atdifferent levels, limited livelihood diversification options, poor livestockand crop productivity and market linkages and low levels of nutrition.Implementation will focus on systems change, with a strong learning componentto ensure interventions are adapted per the latest analysis and research.  The Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity willbe one piece to the larger puzzle of building the resilience of Ethiopia’spastoral populations, and partnerships with other implementers, donors, the GoEand the private sector will be essential to reach the scale needed for realsystems change. 

The overall purpose of PARAwill be: to improve resilience to enhance food security and inclusive economic growth.  It has the following five interrelatedintermediate results:

Component 1: Improved Disaster RiskManagement Systems and Capacity;

Component 2: Diversified and SustainableEconomic Opportunities for People Transitioning out from Pastoralism;

Component 3: Intensified and SustainedPastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing;

Component 4: Improved Nutritional Statusof Targeted Households; and

Component 5: Crisis Modifier.

This multifaceted activityis expected to be a major component in USAID’s contribution to improvingEthiopia’s ability to withstand major shocks in the pastoral regions, acritical element on the journey to self-reliance.

 The Pastoral AreasResilience Activity consists of core activities and crisis modifieractivities.  The core activities willtarget 250,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in 30 or more selecteddistricts (Woredas) of Oromia, Somali, Afar and potentially South Omo bytackling the root causes of vulnerability for lowlands households to improvetheir capacity to withstand and recover from climate and conflict relatedshocks and stresses. These include weak disaster risk management capacity atdifferent levels, limited livelihood diversification options, poor livestockand crop productivity and market linkages and low levels of nutrition.Implementation will focus on systems change, with a strong learning componentto ensure interventions are adapted per the latest analysis and research.  The Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity willbe one piece to the larger puzzle of building the resilience of Ethiopia’spastoral populations, and partnerships with other implementers, donors, the GoEand the private sector will be essential to reach the scale needed for realsystems change. 

The overall purpose of PARAwill be: to improve resilience to enhance food security and inclusive economic growth.  It has the following five interrelatedintermediate results:

Component 1: Improved Disaster RiskManagement Systems and Capacity;

Component 2: Diversified and SustainableEconomic Opportunities for People Transitioning out from Pastoralism;

Component 3: Intensified and SustainedPastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing;

Component 4: Improved Nutritional Statusof Targeted Households; and

Component 5: Crisis Modifier.

This multifaceted activityis expected to be a major component in USAID’s contribution to improvingEthiopia’s ability to withstand major shocks in the pastoral regions, acritical element on the journey to self-reliance.

 The Pastoral AreasResilience Activity consists of core activities and crisis modifieractivities.  The core activities willtarget 250,000 households (approximately 1.5 million people) in 30 or more selecteddistricts (Woredas) of Oromia, Somali, Afar and potentially South Omo bytackling the root causes of vulnerability for lowlands households to improvetheir capacity to withstand and recover from climate and conflict relatedshocks and stresses. These include weak disaster risk management capacity atdifferent levels, limited livelihood diversification options, poor livestockand crop productivity and market linkages and low levels of nutrition.Implementation will focus on systems change, with a strong learning componentto ensure interventions are adapted per the latest analysis and research.  The Pastoral Areas Resilience Activity willbe one piece to the larger puzzle of building the resilience of Ethiopia’spastoral populations, and partnerships with other implementers, donors, the GoEand the private sector will be essential to reach the scale needed for realsystems change. 

The overall purpose of PARAwill be: to improve resilience to enhance food security and inclusive economic growth.  It has the following five interrelatedintermediate results:

Component 1: Improved Disaster RiskManagement Systems and Capacity;

Component 2: Diversified and SustainableEconomic Opportunities for People Transitioning out from Pastoralism;

Component 3: Intensified and SustainedPastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing;

Component 4: Improved Nutritional Statusof Targeted Households; and

Component 5: Crisis Modifier.

This multifaceted activityis expected to be a major component in USAID’s contribution to improvingEthiopia’s ability to withstand major shocks in the pastoral regions, acritical element on the journey to self-reliance.