RFA: RIPA Stimulating Commercial Goat Aggregation Enterprise
RFA-C301
Background:
Resilience in Pastoralist area- North (RiPA-north) program is a five-year USAID funded FtF program that aims to improve the resilience capacities of households, markets and governance institutions across 22 woredas in the Somali, Afar and Oromia regions. The program has four components with integrated activities across intervention geographic areas. These components are:
1. Improved Disaster Risk Management (DRM) Systems and Capacity.
2. Diversified and Sustainable Economic Opportunities for People Transitioning out of Pastoralism (ToPs) particularly youth and women.
3. Intensified and Sustained Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Production and Marketing
4. Improved and Sustained Nutrition and Hygiene Practices
In addition, gender and peace building are embedded as crosscutting for each component. RiPA program designed and implementing following a market systems development approach to stimulate sustainable systemic change at scale. This will involve multiple actors from the private sector and government along the market system (i.e. core, supporting and rule/norm functions).
Simulating commercial goat production and marketing intervention will be implemented in three regions of the RiPA program targeted. The Somali region intervention is planned to implement in collaboration with the ‘Strengthened Socio-Economic Development and Better Employment Opportunities for Refugees and host Communities in the Jigjiga Area (STEDE)’ program being implemented by Mercy Corps with funding from the European Union through the EU trust fund. The first round call for application from STEDE program focused Fafan Zone of Somali region was released and this round call is for application from the USAID funded RIPA-North project. This intervention is planned to implement in collaboration with the STEDE program to minimize the duplication of efforts and resources particularly
in Somali region. RiPA- will manage the Afar and Oromia region intervention north only.