Livelihood and Resilience
The Integrated Livelihoods and Nutrition Security Technical Programme (ILaNS TP) aims to address food and nutrition insecurity in the community by combining interdependent programmes such as Resilient Agriculture and Environmental Sustainability, Economic Development, and Integrated Nutrition. Our Energy Efficient Cook Stoves Projects have improved women's saving practices through cooperatives while also providing safety, protection, fuel, and time savings. In FY 23, our projects transferred ETB 54,620,296 to 320 energy-efficient cooperatives. Also, in the same fiscal year, our environmental interventions contributed to a reduction of 410,090 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The interventions additionally enabled the sequestration of 60,592 tonnes of carbon dioxide and the transfer of 112,312 USD to cooperatives.
Under our Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) programme, we continue to use low-cost land restoration techniques to combat poverty and hunger among low-income farmers by increasing food and timber production and climate resilience. As a result, 168,644 ha of degraded land were restored, and 33,500 people began practising Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR). In the fiscal year, WVE implemented a variety of approaches to rehabilitate underweight children through development grants, emergency response programmes, and nutrition-specific interventions. Some of the approaches used include PD Hearth, Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF), severe acute malnutrition (SAM), and/or Moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) management, which includes Supplementary Feeding Programme (SFP), Outpatient Therapeutic Feeding Programme (OTP), Therapeutic Feeding Programme (TFP), and Targeted Supplementary Feeding Programme (TSFP) services. In FY'23, the interventions rehabilitated 851,585 underweight children using among other approaches, including PDH.
Through the technical programme’s advocacy interventions, 79,571 people were reached and addressed through environment and nutrition advocacy. A total of 996,832 USD in loan funds was mobilized by saving groups (S4T) members across the operational areas. Moreover, 206,926 S4T members benefited from financial inclusion (72% women).
