PACT

The program aims to decrease poverty and enhance rural resilience through sustainable development and resilience enhancement, fostering inclusive and equitable development.

• To empower 7,430 rural HHs in selected landscapes to improve their incomes, food and nutrition security, and resilience to external shocks.
• To ensure all community members benefit from interventions, improving well-being, resilience, and quality of life, contributing to poverty reduction and sustainable development.

Component 1: Community-Led Climate-Smart Productive Landscapes

• Community-led climate-resilient development and natural resource management (NRM).
• Climate-resilient infrastructure development.
• Market-oriented, nutrition-sensitive, and climate-resilient food production and productivity.

Component 2: Agribusiness Development Subcomponent

• Market access linkage support.
• Tailored business and finance linkage to young men and women agripreneurs.

Component 3: Institutional and Policy Strengthening

• Institutional strengthening and policy support.
• Programme coordination and implementation support services.

• Alignment with national strategic frameworks.
• Promoting gender equality and women's empowerment.
• Creating jobs for young people, including those with disabilities.
• Community-led initiatives, sustainable use of natural resources, and improved agricultural productivity.

Federal Level

Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is the lead organization. The Federal Steering Committee is chaired by the Minister.

Regional Level

The Regional Bureau of Agriculture provides leadership through its head and a Regional Steering Committee.

Woreda Level

A Woreda Steering Committee is chaired by the woreda administrator and meets four times per year.

Kebele Level

A Technical Committee is led by the Kebele Administrator.

Landscape Coordination Committee

Coordinates work across landscapes spanning multiple kebeles.

The regional line sectors engaged in implementation include:

• Bureau of Agriculture (BoA)
• Bureau of Finance
• Irrigation Agency
• Authority of Forest and Environment
• Bureau of Water and Energy / Irrigation
• Bureau of Women, Children and Social Affairs
• Bureau of Labor and Skill
• Bureau of Trade and Market Development
• Bureau of Livestock Development
• Land Administration
• Cooperative Agency
• Planning and Development Commission
• Agriculture Research Institute
• Zonal Agriculture Offices

• Sidama Region PACT program
• Sidama PACT FFS Group
• Facebook: Sidama PACT (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61587934528940)

• Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)
• Lersha
• VITA
• Rabo Bank
• Research centers
• JICA
• FAO
• Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE)
• University

June 2023 to December 2030 (seven years).