The Ministry of Federal Affairs and Pastoralists Area Development says that about 4 million pastoralists have become beneficiaries of social and economic service delivery via Pastoralist Community Development Project (PCDP).
Project Coordinator with the Ministry, Seid Umer, told WMC that about 1058 projects of social and economic institutions were completed and started service delivery in Afar, Somali, Oromiya and SNNP regional states during the concluded budget year.
According to Seid, PCDP is implemented in 113 weredas and is able to make 4 million pastoralist community beneficiaries of potable water, human health services , animal health facilities , community road, water and soil conservation activities during the last fiscal year.
Seid noted that the government has designed and strived to implement the pastoralist community development project for about 15 years to realize equitable development in pastoralist areas of the country.
In addition, the PCDP has targeted to execute about 972 social and economic service institutions within 113 weredas of four pastoralist regions during the current budget year , Seid underscored.
The Ministry of federal affairs and pastoralist area development has allocated a total of 1, 911, 988,838 birr budget for implementation of the project this fiscal year, Seid stated. The international fund for agriculture development ( IFAD) and world Bank(WB) donated 932, 751 ,073 birr and 728, 955, 000 birr respectively.
The pastoralist community development project was launched in 2003 G.C and is expected to be finalized in 2018 G.C ,Walta learnt.