CST NEWS 1 April -June 2012 Volume 3 No. 1 CST for Good Practice Patricia Wall, CST Country Representative, received certifi- cate of appreciation from Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister, Ato Halilemariam Desalegn, on NGO Good Practice Day or- ganized by CCRDA C ST received certificate of appreciation from Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister, Ato Halilemariam Desalegn, for the support it has been rendering for wider civil society development in the country and for the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA) for many years. Charities’ Good Practice day was organized by CCRDA on 7th of June 2012 to bring to light charities’ contribution to the development of the country. The forum also created opportunity for linkages between the civil societies and government officials. Best practice competition among NGOs was the main event of the day where 10 NGOs received award for their exemplary work in the country.
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• Recovery in Borena ................................................ 2• Value Chain Training in Mekele ................................. 3• Trad for Trócaire in Ethiopia ......................................4• Annual Partners Meeting in Addis .............................5• On the right track! ..................................................6• CST Partner in the Thirst for Change.......................... 7• SPHERE training in Hawassa..................................... 7• TRADE Launched ................................................. 8• Update ................................................................. 8
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CST News is a quarterly newsletter produced by the Joint Ethiopia Programme of CAFOD, SCIAF and Trócaire. If you wish tosend feedback email [email protected]
Patricia Wall, CST Country Representative, received certifi-cate of appreciation from Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister, Ato Halilemariam Desalegn, on NGO Good Practice Day or-ganized by CCRDA
CST received certificate of appreciation
from Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister, Ato Halilemariam Desalegn, for the support it has been rendering for wider civil society development in the country and for the Consortium of Christian Relief and Development Association (CCRDA) for many years.
Charities’ Good Practice day was organized by CCRDA on 7th of June 2012 to bring to light charities’ contribution to the development of the country. The forum also created opportunity for linkages between the civil societies and government officials.
Best practice competition among NGOs was the main event of the day where 10 NGOs received award for their exemplary work in the country.
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Recovery in Borena
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Berako Golduma, 56, is one of the people ben-efited from the drought recovery projects funded by DEC in Teltele.
A year after the 2011 East African drought, which caused huge loss
of livestock assets, communities are still struggling to get back to their feet. CST and partners are implementing recovery projects in seven districts to facilitate communities recovery from the devastating effect of the drought. The EU Instrument for Stability funded Drought Recovery and Resilience Partnership project aims to supports recovery, strengthening resources available to communities and enhancing the human and social capital of affected communities. The project is operational in Teltele, Arero, Yabello, Dhas, Dire and Miyo districts. Local partners: SOS Sahel, ACORD, GPDI and AFD implement the 18 month project, which was officially launched on the 12 July 2012The other recovery project is implemented in Moyale by CIFA with the funding from DEC (Disaster Emergency Committee). This 18 months project focuses on Livestock restocking, marketing support, rehabilitation of water points and range lands.
Immediate response In addition to the recovery projects, CST is planning immediate emergency response to address the food needs identified during the rapid needs assessment that was conducted in April 2012. (Summary of the finding is presented on page 3.) The assessment report indicates that the last year drought coupled with delayed and poor main rain in 2012 created severe food insecurity. Emergency response project addressing immediate food needs are on the pipeline.
Last year, CST and partners provided immediate support after the drought. Berako Golduma, 56, is one of the people benefited from the drought recovery projects funded by DEC in Teltele.
He says, “We didn’t have milk and no food in the house. We were in deep problem. We had to sell six of our cattle just to buy food. “I participated in the pond work, which has helped me to keep my remaining cattle. If I was not involved in the project, I would have had to sell more. At least I would have to sell three to feed my family. In stead I used the money I got from pond to buy grains, clothes and other materials.”
Hundred people took part in the rehabilitation the pond in Teltele through cash for work scheme, ad the pond serves the community up to 5 months in the dry season.
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Food Security: delayed and poor March-May Ganna rains following last year’s drought have created conditions of severe food inse-curity throughout Borena Zone. There are people receiving sup-port from government but many more urgently require assistance, Livestock: herds of cattle, were significantly reduced through death as a result of the 2011 drought. If Ganna rains are insufficient, pasture shortage is imminent. Communities voiced their fear of massive livestock death due to disease in two to three months time as livestock body conditions weak. Agriculture: many communities have not planted crops in antici-pation of poor rains, preferring to conserve already reduced seed stocks, or eat seeds rather than
waste through failed cultivation. In most agro-pastoral woredas cultivation has also been low due to lack of access to draught ani-mals because of massive livestock death in the past drought. Health and Nutrition: Pneu-monia, malaria and diarrhoea are among the top five causes of child mortality in the zone. Accurate child mortality figures across the zone were unobtainable. Asses-sors observed an increase in child mortality cases due to decreased resistance to disease as a result of food shortage and malnutrition. Water and Sanitation: A gen-eral increase in the number of malfunctioning water facilities was observed. Across the zone over a fifth of all modern ground water facilities (69 bore holes, 6 springs and 54 hand dug wells)
are non-functional. Majority of ponds empty as Ganna rains have not covered the whole area. Poor sanitation was observed in all the areas, increasing the risk of con-tracting water-borne diseases.Education: 182,300 students have dropped out of school in 2012 due to shortages of food, and lack of drinking water. Many schools were damaged during heavy winds last year and have not yet been repaired. Most reservoirs in schools are malfunctioning due to inadequate installation.Vulnerability: vulnerable groups identified by communities includ-ed older people, women, disabled people, critically ill people and children. Access to basic services such as water, food, health care and sanitation and hygiene, for these groups is very limited.
Borena Rapid Assessment Finding, May 2012
Value Chain Training in Mekele
20 Partner staff attended the Value Chain Development training organ-ized by CST in Mekelle.
CST organized value chain development training for 20 partner staff in Mekelle from 5 to 10 June
2012. The participants were from Relief Society of Tigray, Daughters of Charity, Adigrat Dioceses Catholic Secretariat and Cooperative and Market offices of woreda. The training aimed at enhancing partners capacity on value chain concepts and its linkages with livelihoods. After the training, participants are mainly expected to easily understand value chain analysis and development, and synchronize the value chain concept with their livelihood projects. Joint Ethiopia Programme Staff, Askale Aderaw and Teshale Endalemaw delivered the five day training.
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Trad for Trócaire in Ethiopia
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A Trad for Trócaire team visited the CST supported projects
in Gamogofa and Borena from 12-16 June 2012. The team comprised of three traditional Irish musicians: Paula Hanley, Triona Brady and Muireann Banks, an association member: Brendan McAleer and Trocaire Staff: Karen Casey. Trad for Trócaire is set out to promote and encourage musicians, venue owners and Trad fans to organize, play in, host, and support a traditional music session in Ireland and beyond to raise funds for Trócaire.
The visit was organized to help the team have first hand experience of the Trócaire and Partners work in Ethiopia, and discuss with communities and to see the impact of the projects in the people’s lives.
The team played the Irish traditional music and dance for communities in Borena and Gamgofofa. The events created a successful cultural exchange between the Ethiopian and Irish culture. The team returned to Ireland promising to organize, support and play at a Trad for Trócaire sessions.
Triona (L), Muireann, Paula: ‘ It has really impressed me to see the people feel com-fortable enough to voice the problem that they see, the issues that they have and they are able to raise their issues. They are able to come up with the solutions together and Trócare are more the facilitators in making things happen and working together with the communities.’ Muireann
Paula: ‘We have seen first hand the amazing work and the amazing difference it is making to people’s live here, not just in Ethiopia of course in all the countries across the world where Troacaire and partners are working.’
Triona: ‘There have been many things that I have seen and things that I didn’t ever expect to see and Trocaire are ac-tual doing it here. One of the things that impressed me most was the work that the communities are do-ing together so they are not just reliant on
one or two people. Everyone is helping each other to better themselves and as with community and with Trocaire support they are able to do this with encouragement.’
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Annual Partners Meeting in Addis
Joint Ethiopia programmes held annual partners meeting with the different programme
partners in April and June 2012 at Embilta Hotel in Addis Ababa. The Annual Livelihood partners meeting was held from 24-26, April 2012. A total of 33 participants attended the livelihood meeting , which presented the achievements and challenges of the livelihood programme in 2011. The meeting also established a reference group for the programme evaluation and design. 26 April, 2012 was dedicated for Humanitarian partners. Nineteen staff from nine partner organizations were present in the meeting, which
discussed lessons from the 2011 humanitarian response and downward accountability.The meeting with HIV partners was from 13-15 June 2012 and it included a Project Cycle Management training . The main meeting, focused on topics which leads to improvement on the quality and effectiveness of the HIV interventions. Civil Society programme partners meeting was held from 20-21 June 2012 focusing on validation of programme evaluation and facilitating for partners and stake holders to reflect on key issues and recommend key strategies for future action.
Partners share their experience at a Market Fair dur-ing the livelihoods meeting.
Livelihood partners meeting was concluded with the establish-ment of reference group which is going to actively participate in the programme evaluation and design.
Civil Society Partners reflected on the CST Civil soci-ety programme evaluation finding and recommenda-tions.
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Women driving tractors in rural Ethiopia is not a common scene. However, this is changing in Tigray with the establishment of
mini tractors rental cooperatives through the innovative livelihoods project with Relief Society of Tigray (REST). Mini Tractor Rental is a new initiative for responding to the needs of smallholder farmers with little or no access to oxen to plough. Seven cooperatives are formed by the project and each group is given a mini tractor and accessories including trailers to help them start providing rental service. Each group has 15 members and 33 out of the total are female.The initiative has also proved to be a good source of income for the women and youth who do not have other source of income. It also helps to overcome labor shortages at crucial times in the agricultural cycle.
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Amlesu received a mini tractor drivers training and pleased to provide service to her community
Almaz is one of the min tractor cooperative members: The cooperative in Adigudem started to give service even beyond Tigray. In Afar they plough 100 ha of land which earned the cooperative over EUR 2580
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CST Partner in the Thirst for Change
In addition, the Trailers create access to transport inputs and produces. Looking that women driving tractors has also become a source of inspiration in the rural community.The livelihood project was implemented over three year’s period from 2009 to 2012 with the funding of €936,954 from European Union and CST. It has targeted 2,500 community poor and vulnerable families including land-less youth and women headed households in Adua and Hintalo-Wajerat woredas of Tigray.
On the Right ...!
Lemlem Berhe, water engineer of, Adigrat Diocese Catholic
Secretariat (CST partner), made a successful contribution to the CAFOD’s Thirst for Change campaign in London. Thirst for Change campaign calls UK government to end water poverty, urging other world leaders to raise their ambition and make clean water and safe sanitation a top priority.Lemlem helped with the submission of CAFOD’s 60,000 campaign actions to the UK government going to 10 downing street together with CAFOD director, Christian Bain and four other campaigners on 15th May 2012. She met with MP Andrew Mitchel England’s Minister of International Development. During her visit, Lemlem spoke to thousands of supporters about CST supported the work in Adigrat going to various parishes, schools, colleges and events in nine different dioceses in England. She was also interviewed by radio stations and Catholic Times, a weekly newspaper, featured her article.
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SPHERE Training in Hawassa
CST facilitated a four days: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
in Humanitarian Response (SPHERE) training in Hawassa from 14-17 May 2012. Seventeen staff from 10 partner organizations participated in the training.
The training was designed to make the technical aspects of the SPHERE project more accessible to the participants and help them confidently deal with the various standards and indicators of SPHERE.
Insight were given on issues related to Water, Sanitation, Hygiene Promotion (WASH), Food Aid, Nutrition, Food Security, Settlement, Shelter, NFI (Non Food Items) Distribution and Health. Birhanu Waka certified SPHERE trainer facilitated the training together with Dejene Fikre, CST Humanitarian staff. CST NEWS
17 staff of parnters attended SPHERE training in Hawassa.
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1. Cat Mahoney, CAFOD. 2. Gwen Barry, CAFOD 3. Mark Cumming, Trócaire4. Julian Waagensen, Trócaire 5. Paula Hanley, Trócaire6. Triona Brady, Trócaire7. Mureann Banks, Trócaire8. Brendan McAleer, Trócaire9. Karen Casey, Trócaire10. Philippa Bonella, SCIAF11. Robert Angove, SCIAF12. Rosemary Heenen,Trócaire 13. Peter McGeachie, CAFOD 14. Lilian Mori-Nyaim, CAFOD 15. Emma Crompton, CAFOD16. Louise Davis, CAFOD
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TRADE Launched
European Union
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1. Changing Lives in Tigray2. Innovative Livelihoods
Comic Relief funded TRADE :Towards a Resilient and Diverse Economy, project was launched
on 26 June 2012 in Yabello. Community representatives, traditional leaders, government officials and implementing partners attended the event. The project helps over 13,000 Borena pastoralist households to diversify their livelihoods and increase their access to markets and credit. It places a strong emphasis on working with primary and secondary producers, traders, cooperatives and Saving and Credit Cooperatives Organizations (SACCOs) and local government to ensure sustainability. TRADE project was delayed by five month as signing of the project agreement took longer than expected to due to confusion related to the civil society law between regional and federal governments. The launching workshop was followed by a three days value chain development capacity building training of partners in Moyale town.
Community representatives, traditional leaders, government officials and im-plementing partners participated in the launching workshop held in Yabello.
