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- Mercy Corps
Led by Mercy Corps and implemented by a consortium of national and international organisations, PRIME interventions helped strengthen the systems that pastoralists operate in so that they can earn higher incomes and be more resilient to climate change shocks that exacerbate chronic poverty and recurrent food insecurity.
The programme ran from 2012 - 2019. Summary of impacts:
- Increased household income 78 per cent
PRIME households income increased on average to an equivalent of $2,287 USD per year. - Positive impacts in food security
Despite record droughts, PRIME-targeted households showed only 4 per cent decline in food security compared to 30 per cent in others. - Marginalised people have greater resilience
2,252,404 people benefited from PRIME were enabled to better withstand shocks and stresses.
About PRIME
Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion (PRIME) was a USAID-led Feed the Future programme in Ethiopia from 2012 - 2019. It included a markets based and adaptive management approach to help pastoralists strengthen systems to simultaneously address economic needs and climate adaptation to increase resilience capacities.