Since 2005, Global Communities has built a strong reputation in Ethiopia for community-based, integrated programming to build resilience in the face of environmental and conflict-related shocks.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia has been experiencing a growing frequency and severity of disasters due to long-term environmental degradation and shifting global weather patterns. As a country prone to recurrent droughts, millions of people are regularly at risk of hunger and disease when crops fail and rangelands dry up. For the country’s pastoralists, who migrate their animal herds in search of fresh pasture and water, changing weather conditions have disrupted traditional pasture growth cycles and significantly increased the costs of scouting for grazing areas and supplemental feed. These challenges have led to widespread livestock deaths from lack of food and water, leaving communities food insecure, malnourished, and vulnerable.<\/p>\n
Through innovative program platforms such as the AfriScout app, which combines satellite data and mobile technology to help pastoralists find pasture and water, and the Women Empowered social and economic empowerment model, we are implementing innovative approaches that are carefully integrated with customary institutions and proven grassroots approaches, leveraging indigenous knowledge and traditions.<\/p>\n\t
Throughout Ethiopia, we are dedicated to partnering with local governments and communities to manage uncertainties while addressing root causes of these vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n
IntraHealth International, a Global Communities Partner, has also worked in Ethiopia for decades, including with pastoral and migratory communities to improve their access to health information and maternal, newborn, and child health services. Other IntraHealth programs have focused on assisting the Ministry of Health and local partners to make progress in specific areas of need including improving the country’s health workforce information system, strengthening the capacity of local organizations to receive donor funding, preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and addressing Ethiopia’s high incidence of obstetric fistula.<\/p>\n
Almost 70% of Africa’s grasslands are degraded or severely degraded and the 250 million pastoralists (nomadic and semi-nomadic herders) that steward these rangelands lose significant numbers of livestock because they’re challenged to find pasture or water for their herds.<\/p>\n
Together with indigenous communities, AfriScout has mapped over 60 million hectares of traditional grazing lands across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania to create community-defined digital grazing maps overlaid with near real-time satellite vegetation and surface water data. This information is displayed in the AfriScout app and supported on the ground by local field agents. Users can post geopositioned alerts on disease, conflict, predators, forbidden grazing areas, water availability, and other information that amplifies traditional practices of sharing information to improve rangeland management.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n\t
To actively regenerate grasslands across Southern Ethiopia, sequester carbon, and protect biodiversity, AfriScout’s Regen projects help communities plan, monitor, and implement community grazing plans for themselves and visiting pastoralists. Collaborating with 70 communities representing more than 250,000 pastoralists, and a collective herd of more than 1.2 million cattle, shoats, and camels, the project delivers significant and long-term social, livelihoods, and environmental impact at landscape scale. The project is registered as a carbon project under Verras VM0042 standard enabling AfriScout to guarantee long-term sustainability of the project, and to deliver significant additional impact through benefit sharing agreements with participating communities.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\tBuilding Community Resilience in Pastoral Lowlands \t<\/h4>\n\t
Global Communities (formerly PCI) embarked on a five-year, USAID-funded initiative to improve resilience to withstand and recover from climate and conflict-related shocks in some of Ethiopia’s most vulnerable pastoral regions. Through the Resilience in Pastoral Areas (RiPA) project, Global Communities, in collaboration with implementing partners GOAL and iDE, worked to address many of the root causes of vulnerability for pastoral families, such as poor livestock and crop productivity, limited access to markets, poor nutrition and limited options for livelihood diversification. Through RiPA, Global Communities supported building community-managed disaster risk management capacity, improving pastoralists’ ability to locate green pastures to sustain their herds through the AfriScout app, increasing access to livelihood opportunities for individuals transitioning out of pastoralism (particularly women and young people), empowering young women and mothers through Women Empowered social and economic empowerment groups, engaging the private sector to improve crop and livestock production and marketing, and improving health and nutrition outcomes for women and children through proven behavior change strategies.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\tPast IntraHealth Programs\t<\/h4>\n\t
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IntraHealth past programs (selected)<\/li>\n
Ethiopia Digital Health Activity (USAID), 2019-2024<\/li>\n
Promoting Quality of Medicines Plus (PQM+) (USAID), 2019-2025<\/li>\n
Accelerating Support to Advanced Local Partners (ASAP) (USAID), 2019-2022<\/li>\n
TRANSFORM (USAID), 2017-2022<\/li>\n
Global Health Supply Chain-Procurement Supply Mechanism (GHSC-PSM) (USAID), 2016-2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t
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CapacityPlus (USAID), 2009-2015<\/li>\n
Community Prevention of Mother-to-Child<\/li>\n
Transmission (USAID), 2009-2014<\/li>\n
Fistula Care (USAID), 2007-2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n\t\t\tImpact\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t
1,113,741<\/h2>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
individuals reached from 2020-2025 (RIPA South)<\/p>\n\t\t\t
21,000<\/h2>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
pastoralist households adopted regenerative grazing practices across 1,197 million hectares of land (RIPA South)<\/p>\n\t\t\t
7,815<\/h2>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t
people transitioning out of pastoralism received technical value chain training from 2020-2025 (RIPA South)<\/p>\n
Partnering for Resilience: Community-Led Solutions Across Ethiopia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":53379,"template":"","tags":[],"gc_area_of_expertise":[],"regions":[446],"resources_type":[],"class_list":["post-5808","country","type-country","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-africa"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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