Ethiopia Country Programming Paper

This second phase of the Country Programming Paper is a revision of the first phase of the intervention with the overarching objective of including the contemporary and outstanding both the national and regional issues. Accordingly, thorough discussion and consensus was made among
the IGAD Member States on the second phase of the program intervention areas and thereby identified eight Priority Intervention Areas (PIAs), Namely Natural Resource and Environmental Management; Market Access, Trade and Financial Services; Enhance Production and Livelihood
Diversification; Disaster Risk Management; Research, Knowledge Management and Technology; Peace Building, Conflict Prevention, and Resolution; and Coordination, Institutional Strengthening and Partnership and Human Capital, Gender and Social Development. Like the previous paper it addresses very important issues that can contribute to building resilience capacity of community to shocks to end drought emergencies in the Horn of Africa.