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21 November 2006
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has been the major beneficiary of the assistance being provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to African countries, USAID/Ethiopia Mission Director said.
Gleen Anders told ENA yesterday that the Agency has been undertaking various projects aimed at improving the livelihood of low income community members in various parts of the country at a cost of close to 260 million USD.
USAID has been providing support for the implementation of ongoing educational and health service expansion programmes in the country, in particular in reproductive health, capacity building of teachers, which has a significant share in ensuring the quality of education as well as in the efforts to contain the spread of HIV/AIDS, Anders said.
It has also been providing support for raising the quality of coffee, hides and skin as well as honey, he added.
According to Anders, the Agency has offered capacity building and finance administration training to strengthen the decentralized administration system being implemented by the government with a view to building democracy and good governance in the country.
The Director furtherer said that the Agency supports Ethiopia’s efforts to be a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Pastoral Livelihood Initiative Programme, designed to prevent drought caused disasters, was one of the successful projects carried out by the USAID, he said.
The Agency is a US external policy designed by John F. Kennedy, who was President during the 1960s, with a view to improving the livelihood of low income community members in developing countries across the world.
People living in various African, Asian and Latin American countries have become beneficiaries of the policy.
(ENA)