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Agency
Intervention
Food Security Coordination Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Voluntary Resettlement Plan
Timeframe since 2003
Main areas
Objectives
Activities
Target
Sites
Food security
Enable up to 440,000 chronically food insecure households to attain food security
through improved access to land.
In response to chronic food shortages, the government has initiated a pilot resettlement
(access to land) program. Resettled families receive loans for inputs and receiving
communities are to receive health and other infrastructure. About 45,000 households
have been voluntarily resettled in Amhara, Oromia and Tigray regions in the year
2002/03. Resettled families remain within their region of origin.
Chronically food insecure households
National
Roles definition Federal entity with extension to regional and woreda levels.
Partners
Training
Tools
developed
Challenges
Sustainability
None
Provides training to development agents on nutrition advocacy and growth monitoring
None
Coordinate delivery of services in time for families and livestock. Basic health, water, and
sanitation infrastructure needs to be provided before communities are resettled.
By design, families that resettle should have a sustainable livelihood
Lessons learnt People can establish better livelihoods in new resettlement sites; more people can be
included in the programme. Interventions that allow asset creation through labor-based
public works can be instruments to establish physical and social infrastructure in and
around settlement areas.
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