Ethiopia disaster mitigation: institutional strengthening project (ISP) phase II

The project purpose is to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Government of Ethiopia and other organizations to prepare for and mitigate food-gap disasters. The Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission (DPPC) is the structure for dealing with disasters in Ethiopia.

The project has three principal components through which it has helped strengthen the DPPC: Policy Familiarisation and Interagency Co-ordination (PF); Early Warning System (EWS); and, Employment Generation Scheme and Community Participation (EGS). The evaluation took place during three weeks in early 2001, near the end of the Year 3 of this four-year Phase 2. It was designed to assess the project results achieved to date and to provide guidance on the need for and suggested direction of an additional phase.