"We are now getting benefited from Meterey small scale irrigation scheme," Estie Woreda Recha kebele residents said.

                      
ORDA Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SFNS) Project financed with 55 million birr by Federal Ministry of Germany for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Welthungerhilfe and the Amhara Regional Government, is aimed at increasing productivity of farmers in various components.

The Project targets to improve the livelihood of 13,284 benefitiaries in selected rural kebeles of Farta, Estie and Fogera and Guna Begemidir woredas from 2018 to 2020.

The project supplies farmers improved crop varieties like, tef, wheat, faba bean, potato, cabbage, and onion in a clustered approach and livestock resources like improved washera breed and egg laying hens etc for better productivity.

The project delivers improved crop & livestock resources, construction of safe water supply & irrigation canals, establishing village economic & social associations /VESAs/, creating job (like fattening) for youths, forming value-chain, gender mainstreaming, protection, promotion and support of healthy maternal, infant and young child feeding, encompassing infant and young child feeding, micro-nutrients and women's nutrition, and food security programs for improving nutrition practices among pregnant and lactating mothers and children under the age of two.

Thank you very much for the funding #Germany people and the government, #BMZ, #WHH

Thank you so much - strategic partners of ORDA #Germany people and the government, #BMZ, #WHH