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|  | | Sodo II Project, Ethiopia | | | Area Profile | | Location: | Sodo Woreda of Gurage Zone, Ethiopia | | Population: | 87,264 | | Farm Families: | 12,500
| | Average land holding: | 0.75 hectares | | Project Timescale: | 2007-2011 | | Project Manager: | Menghistu Mekonnen |
| | | Project Profile
| Self Help's Sodo II project started in late 2006, seeking to extend the development work undertaken during Sodo I to 24 districts not reached in the first development programme in the area.
An area that has experienced frequent droughts, the Sodo region is one which has traditionally experienced low crop yields and poor livestock productivity, which has suffered widespread depletion of natural resources, and where access to education is limited, literacy levels are low, and primary health care services weak.
Improving access to better quality seed stock, measures to promote crop diversification, together with support for local seed multiplication systems, irrigated horticultural production, and strengthening of veterinary services at local level are amongst the programme activities being undertaken to improve agricultural productivity in a region where communities are heavily reliant on small scale farm production.
The production of drought resistent crops such as enset, of valuable cash crops like coffee, and support for savings and credit co-operatives - to enable women to begin income generating activities, are amongst a range of other activities being carried out by the project, which will invest upwards of €1 million in the programme over its five years time frame.
Additional funding and in-kind support valued at nearly €800,000 will be invested in the Sodo II project by the local Ministry and communities in the area, over the same period.
Surveys carried out prior to the project found that only 10% of households in the area being covered by the Sodo II project produce adequate food to meet their needs for the entire year.
The intervention strategy in Sodo II focuses on local resources and indigenous know-how, promotion of innovative ideas and practices, |
|  | | Drip irrigation systems have been introduced to optimise the use of water for farm production |  | | Fuel efficient cooking stoves are being produced |  | | Increasing access to water is a key priority | | |
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| creating linkages with Government and Non Governmental Organizations, and measures to build the capacity of local communities to meet the challenges that they face.
The overall objective of the of the project is to: increase crop and livestock production and productivity through diversification and intensification, rehabilitate and conserve natural resources, and improve access to basic social services in a sustainable manner. | | Related Topics | | | | |
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| | | | | Self Help Africa is a limited liability company. Company number: 105601 Charity No. 6663 (Ireland)
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