PASTORALIST AREAS RESILIENCE IMPROVEMENT THROUGH MARKET EXPANSION (PRIME) PROJECT

PRIME was a five-year, USAID-funded initiative designed to support resilience among pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, and thus enhance prospects for long-term development in Ethiopia’s dry land where the pastoralist livelihood based on.

FSA was one of sub grantees of Mercy Corps and CARE-Ethiopia as one of partners in PRIME project works in Afar National Regional State, zone 3, in 5 Woredas (Argoba especial Woreda, Dulessa, Awash-Fentale, Amibara and Gela’alo Woreads).

The intermediate results that FSA was focussed on were: - developing alternative livelihood methods for household’s transition out of pastoralist through “Integrated Functional Adult Literacy (IFAL)” Program (IR3) and Improved nutritional status of targeted households improved through targeted, sustained and evidence-based interventions (IR5).

After successful completion of the project, market-mapping assessment was conducted collaboratively with Mercy Corps for two consecutive weeks. Currently FSA is implementing an extension of PRIME (PRIME-Nutrition/IR5) for an eight-month extension period. The extension is aimed as a transition project bridging for second phase of PRIME project, PRIME-II. PRIME-Nutrition/IR5 extension period targets to improve nutritional status of targeted households through targeted, sustained and evidence based SVCC interventions.