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Donor: The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, UNESCO, UNDP, UNDP-Spain MDG Achievement Fund for Culture& Development

Background:
The MDG-F achievement fund for culture & development thematic window is among the major joint programs funded by the Spanish Government for Harnessing Diversity for Sustainable Development and Social Change. The Project duration is 3 years, and has a total budget of $ 5million USD. It will be implemented by the Government led agency: MOCT & BOCT at federal & regional levels respectively together with participating UNCT agencies: UNESCO & UNDP.
This program is an integrated multi-sectoral and multi-agency program addressing sustainable development and social issues. It seeks to harness the rich heritage and cultural creativity of Ethiopia for economic development & social progress. It will give due emphasis for the protection, promotion and channeling of Ethiopia's rich and diverse culture as an engine for development. The joint program is in line with the national priorities identified by the GoE in the PASDEP (2006 - 2011) and, also in line with UNDAF (2007 - 2011).

The program will focus on the following objectives:-
-     Strengthening intercultural/religious to foster mutual understanding of heritage and the sharing of common values with a view of contributing towards social progress and social cohesion.
-     Development & implementation of policies as well as legal frameworks for the protection and safeguarding of Ethiopia’s natural and cultural heritage
-     Harnessing the potential of the cultural and creative industries, particularly heritage based activities such as handicrafts, cultural tourism for income generation, economic development and poverty alleviation
-     Enhancement of indigenous knowledge and practices of natural heritage management as well as strengthening the link between nature and culture based sustainable development.

The project/program will be implemented in six regions namely:  Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, Harar and Southern Nation Nationalities and Peoples Regional State. The major beneficiaries from the Program are: Community members, Culture and religious institutions, faith based organizations, Government institutions at all levels, cultural enterprises and Cultural associations. Special emphasis will be given to elders, women, children and youth.

Outcome of the program:
Strengthening Intercultural/religious dialogue to foster mutual understanding of heritages and the sharing of common values with a view of contributing towards social progress and social cohesion  

Output of the program Component 1:
To improve/strengthen the capacity of the national and local stakeholders in intercultural/religious dialogue

Output of the Program Component 2:
To enhance the capacity of the government and civil society in identification, management, and protection of cultural heritage

This international juice factory took over an Ethiopian state farm near Nazreth (Ethiopia) recently. The employees of the factory are living in three farming areas around the factory, existing out of a variety of smaller villages. The factory management states that obvious improvements in the people's livelihoods need to be made, by creating an outgrowers program. The assessment needed to be conducted on a short term (3 days) and needed to provide a clear overview of the population (male/female/children), health facilities, water supplies, educational facilities and others. 

africa JUICE Tibila Share Company is implementing an outgrowers project, that will include smallholder farmers of the surrounding communities. In order to develop the business, the facilities in the surrounding communities need to have a minimum standard. For this purpose a baseline assessment has been conducted which makes an inventory of the health facilities, educational facilites and the situation of potable water in the communities.This assessment will function to attract some donor organisations to implement community development programmes that will work parallel to the outgrowers project.

Teachers are provided with an on the job training to implement student centered teaching, this is done through participatory approach. In the training attention will be given to timemanagement, reflective teaching, lesson planning, active learning methods, observation/feedback, including modern teaching materials in classrooms, curriculum development and continuous assessment.

During the three months training of the teachers, various observations have been done and information had been collected. Based upon this a report had been produced for the school management to support the development of a strategy that improves the quality of education at the school. Quality of education is based upon three indicators: capacity of teachers, teaching materials available and how managment processes are supporting the educational processes. The report was worked out into detail including an action plan and a presentation for the board and various interested stakeholders (e.g. parent committee).

A basic study of the organisation concerning mainstreaming needed to be done to prepare the gender mainstreaming analysis. The mainstreaming needed to be connected to the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation process of the organisation. This implies a real assessment in the field, including a stakeholder analysis, implementing appropriate tools that can be reused by the organisation, conclusions and recommendations.