THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD
$15,000,000.00 CAD
- Department
- Global Affairs Canada
- Program
- —
- Recipient country
- Ethiopia
- Fiscal year
- 2010-2011
- Agreement period
- January 10, 2011 – January 31, 2011
- Project status
- Closed
- Reference
- CA-3-A034242002
Published purpose
The Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transition (MERET) program operates in 72 highly vulnerable and chronically food-insecure districts throughout Ethiopia. Each year, approximately 122,000 people in crisis-prone food-insecure communities benefit from the project. Participating households provide labour in exchange for food rations on initiatives such as a tree planting, the construction of structures designed to reduce soil erosion and increase water retention and the enclosure of these treated watersheds to prevent grazing from free-range livestock. A total of 131,987 hectares of severely degraded land was rehabilitated with previous CIDA support in 2008 and 2009. By providing new resources to expand on these impressive results, this project helps more vulnerable Ethiopians achieve long-term food security and withstand the effects of climate change. All CIDA disbursements for this project have been completed.
In plain English AI-generated
This project supports the UN World Food Programme's MERET initiative in Ethiopia, which helps vulnerable communities rehabilitate degraded land and improve long-term food security through labour-for-food programs and environmental restoration.
Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada
Based on the published description. See how AI categorization works — the linked official record is authoritative.
Community tags
Tags are applied by readers, not by this site. One tag per person per record.