Description

This one-year project, aiming to propel the previous project's impacts, is designed to serve as a seamless exit strategy while driving and sustaining the positive impacts and lessons learned from two previous Packard Foundation-funded projects that were implemented in the Illu Ababora and Buno Bedele Zones of the Oromia region. The first phase, titled "Engaging Rural Young People in Tree-Based Value Chains and Cascading of the Watershed and Agroforestry Platform," ran from 2020 to 2023 (34 months), while the second phase, titled "Promoting Youth, Women, and Smallholder Farm Intensification, Entrepreneurship, and Multi-stakeholder Platforms Project," ends by December 2024.

The goal of this exit grant is to foster ownership and commitment from the outset, ensuring sustained project outcomes and impacts beyond the project completion. This is achieved through a collaborative approach involving key stakeholders and the local community to gradually transferring complete responsibilities to communities and local stakeholders to own and integrate project outcomes into the broader programming and initiatives. Extension officers, experts, local level decision makers, and other relevant stakeholders will benefit from training, knowledge, and lesson sharing occasions.