Group Photo: Partial view of the experience sharing event
Up on the invitation of the World Bank team, the HEAL team shared its experience to the Lowland Resilience Program (LLRP) of the Government of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa on July 25, 2023. The experiences shared among other things include:
1. Hydroponic Fodder Production
- Concept of hydroponics
- Advantages of hydroponic fodder production
- Procedures to produce hydroponic fodder
- Key achievements of VSF-Suisse
- Benefits that the pastoral communities witnessed and valued most
- Enabling environment for scaling-up the technology
- Lessons learnt.
- Link to the recording: https://vsfsuisse.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HEAL/ET-7AZcILvlAhDs_Awszc6gBhTzItxDieGNb03sdEif4tg?e=3A8WuF
2. One Health service delivery in the Horn of Africa (HoA) with a focus on:
- Horn of Africa situation: a glimpse
- HEAL theory of change
- Peculiar features of HEAL
- Institutional arrangement and partnership with the government of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
- So far accomplishments
- Results of client satisfaction surveys
- Evidence: a glimpse at success stories
- Challenges, lessons and way Forward
- Link to the recording: https://vsfsuisse.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/HEAL/EVXWUre9-Z1Irpq63QsUqvcBwSxe4ymmiARwLLKpOyLuQg?e=FWl6Kc
As a way forward, the World Bank and LLRP teams commended to partner with VSF-Suisse on Hydroponic fodder production with the ongoing LLRP phase-I program which will run up to 2025. The teams also commended to incorporate One Health (OH), Hydroponic fodder production and innovative feed and food solutions in LLRP phase-II program, which is currently on design stage.
Contributed by:
Metalign Ayehu
HEAL Regional Program Manager and MEAL Lead