Building Ethiopia's future The Sida-Amhara Rural Development Programme

The Sida-Amhara Rural Development Programme aimed to improve food security and reduce rural poverty in Amhara, in northern Ethiopia. This book presents some of the programme’s most successful interventions, and offer numerous lessons and insights that can be applied by other development initiatives:

• Support for land tenure security – introducing a land administration system, and providing landholders with certificates to their land to encourage them to invest in it.
• Improving agricultural productivity and natural resources management – introducing new crops, livestock breeds, farming techniques and small scale irrigation together with innovative approaches.
• Economic diversification – supporting the development of non-farm enterprises and creating new sources of income for local people.
• Developing infrastructure and social services, such as roads, bridges, drinking water supply schemes, irrigation systems, schools, health posts and centres.
• Promoting gender equality and mainstreaming HIV/AIDS into programme activities
• Decentralization and capacity building – enabling local governments and communities to make decisions that concern them, and ensuring that government staff and local people have the skills and resources they need to promote development.

The Sida-Amhara Rural Development Programme ran from 1997 to 2010. It served East Gojjam and South Wollo Zones in the Amhara National Regional State. It was implemented with the Regional government, with funding from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and technical and management support from ORGUT Consulting AB.

This book is intended for government institutions, development agencies, non-governmental organizations and others interested in rural development in Ethiopia and elsewhere in Africa.

Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• It’s market day
• Providing secure land tenure
• Improving farming methods
• Creating jobs and income
• Building and maintaining infrastructure
• Promoting equality for women and men
• Responding to the threat of HIV/AIDS
• Decentralizing decision-making
• Managing the SARDP programme
• Analysing SARDP’s achievements
• Appendices

Published 2010 by the Sida-Amhara Rural Development Programme, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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