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Results
- Milk and milk products
The monopoly that dominated the Addis Ababa supply market of pasteurized milk and processed milk products has been broken by new milk processors having entered the market. Not only has the number of private sector processors increased but we are also up scaling geographically, in Sululta (30 km north of Addis Ababa), Addis Alem (40 km west of Addis Ababa), Debremarkos (300 km north-west of Addis Ababa) and Jimma (300 km south-west of Addis Ababa). The production and sale of milk is showing an increasing trend. As an example, milk production in the Sellale Dairy Cooperative Union increased by 1000 litres per day, and the rate of rejection has reduced to 1% as compared to 3% last year and 13.5% in 2006. The union is now paying its members 4.6 Birr per litre as compared to 2.25 Birr in 2005.
- Honey value chain
On February 11th, 2008 Ethiopia has, for the first time, been added to the list of countries with an approved residue monitoring plan (EU decision 2004/432/EC concerning Approved Residue Monitoring Plans), paving the way for the first export of Ethiopia to the EU. Eight honey processors are now operating or are in the process of opening company apiaries in the production areas. SNV Ethiopia helps in the skills improvement of their outgrowers, and supports acquisition of HACCP & ISO certification to improve the company’s market positioning. The first export of honey to the EU is under way and more requests are coming in from EU importers and Norway. The projected contracts accommodate the production of up to 10,000 smallholder beekeepers. With the experience for Ethiopian honey, a blueprint for EU Third Country Listings of any animal-based product is in place and can be used by local operators in many of the countries where SNV operates to prepare EU accreditation requests.
- Oil seed value chain
SNV successfully introduced a sector-wide market information system providing actors with up-to-date market prices and information. All supported oil millers from the Addis Ababa Oil Millers Association have stopped offering crude oil. A Public-Private Partnership was successfully established in March 2008 and the strategy of the partnership has been laid out in a Memorandum of Understanding. Five projects are already approved in this MoU; one additional one was approved following discussions in the taskforce and among the Partnership Committee members.
- Apple value chain
In Chencha, where SNV Ethiopia supports the Highland Fruits Marketing Cooperative, tree husbandry and disease control has significantly improved the appearance of the apples, resulting in more of 1st and 2nd grade apples being marketed. Membership has increased by 224 (bringing the total number of members to 580) as a result of a cooperative management principles training and the formation of competing cooperatives. Traded volumes of apple at the Addis Ababa market increased by 43%. Revenues from seedling sale, which is in fact the most thriving business for small farmers in the area, reached a record high of 5 million Birr.
- Mango value chain
Business-to-business linkages have been established for three cooperatives with Etfruit and Addis Ababa wholesalers, resulting in a 65% increase in membership and increased trade and income for producers and cooperatives.
- Pro-poor tourism
SNV’s support to Konso Special District (southern Ethiopia) resulted in linking of the Konso Special District with the Sustainable Tourism-Environmental Protection (ST-EP) Foundation, which has granted part of the project fund. The District has recognised the potential of tourism in income-generation and assigned a team of experts fully dedicated to tourism work. Tourism revenue-sharing among the communities of the seven villages in the district (7200 residents) has been agreed upon, certified local guides are now self-employed, collaboration among the different actors is strengthened and community accommodations for tourists are under construction.
- Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
In 2008, SNV Ethiopia’s intervention in 7 woredas (districts) in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS) helped increase access to and use of safe water for 58,000 people at household level, and access to and of use clean latrines for 35,000. In addition, the number of pupils with access to and use of safe water, sanitation and hygiene increased by 10,200. SNV contributed to these achievements by: (1) enabling 5 woredas to establish multi-stakeholder forums that promote collaboration and joint action, (2) assisting 7 woredas and 6 local capacity builders in adopting and implementing community-led total sanitation so as to increase access to and use of latrines in villages and schools, (3) introducing the hybrid distance learning programme and guiding the Awassa Technical and Vocational Education Training Centre in implementing the programme, thereby upgrading the water, sanitation and hygiene knowledge and skills of on-the-job woreda WaSH staff, (4) enabling 7 woredas to generate, share and use reliable water, sanitation and hygiene baseline data to plan and monitor implementation of their activities, (5) enabling woredas to link and lobby for increased water, sanitation and hygiene financing from local revenue and from donors, and (6) training the Water Resources Development Bureau in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPRS) and enabling it to use the acquired knowledge and skills to focus on the water policy in 24 woredas. | |
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