Ethiopians Motivating Enterprises to Rise in Trade and Agri-business (EMERTA)

To increasing sustainable employment and income generation for women and men in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

COUNTRY/REC Ethiopia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2022

PROJECT SITE Amhara

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Global Affairs Canada (GAC) 18,700,000.00
2 Mennonite Economic Development Agency (MEDA) 3,200,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 21,900,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 21,900,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To increasing sustainable employment and income generation for women and men in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia

Project Objectives

To strengthen the competitiveness and profitability of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)

Project activities

Increase in access to information

Incentives for innovation

Shared risk with financial institutions (matching grants) to stimulate lending

Linkages to business services and savings groups

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Women and men 16000
2 Small businesses 275
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system