EDITOR’S NOTE: World Bank, the best friend of dictators and the primary source of Africa’s misery, approves more money to be given to the terrorist regime in Ethiopia led by tribal dictator Meles Zenawi. If and when a government that stands for the interest of Ethiopians comes to power, one of the first things it needs to do is to kick out the World Bank and IMF out of the country.
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World Bank Press Release No:2008/342/AFR
Washington, May 29, 2008 – The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved US$ 80 million International Development Association financing (of which US$56.6 million as grant and US$23.4 million as a credit) to the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in support of the second phase of the Pastoral Community Development Project.
The project will be implemented in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in 57 woredas of the Afar, Somali, SNNPs and Oromya Regions. About 600,000 rural households or approximately 45% of pastoral and agro-pastoral woredas in Ethiopia will benefit from the PCDPII project.
The objective of the Pastoralist Community Development Project II is to enable pastoralists to better withstand external shocks and to improve the livelihoods of targeted communities. The project will empower local communities by increasing their engagement in woreda processes and local development decision making. It will also provide them increased access to social services; and better access to support for savings and credit activities. In addition, the project seeks to improve and expand the pastoral early warning system and the responsiveness of the disaster mitigation and contingency funds.
‘PCDP II represents a great opportunity for the Government of Ethiopia to realize its commitment to decentralized development in pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Ethiopia,’ said Ingo Wiederhofer, World Bank Task Team Leader for this project. According to him, the Project will support an approach to local development in which citizens are empowered to determine and implement their social and economic priorities. It will also help to expand and institutionalize systems that will enable the country to better identify and manage disaster risks in these fragile areas in a proactive manner adapted to pastoral livelihood systems.
The project has the following four components:
The Sustainable Livelihoods Enhancement component will further strengthen decentralized and participatory planning at the community/ kebele and woreda levels. Women and men in pastoral communities will identify, prioritize, design, and implement micro-projects that reflect their local development priorities. The Community Investment Fund (CIF) subcomponent will finance micro-projects related to water supply, micro-scale irrigation, health care, education, rangeland management, etc. The Rural Livelihoods Program (RLP) sub-component will finance income generating activities identified by beneficiary community groups, and will help to extend savings and credit cooperatives systems to pastoral areas.
The Pastoral Risk Management component will support the expansion of the participatory Early Warning and Response Program to all pastoral and agro-pastoral communities. The system will provide information to trigger early non-food responses to declines in the welfare of pastoralist communities using the proven Household Economy Approach. In addition, technical assistance and staff capacity building will be provided to support the development of regional Disaster Preparedness Strategy and Investment Programs in four regions.
The Knowledge Management and Participatory Learning component will support Participatory Action Learning pilots in selected woredas to develop methodologies for demand-driven approaches to participatory knowledge generation and innovation development. In addition knowledge management and information exchange will be supported at federal and regional levels.
The last component will support overall Project Management.
The World Bank will support the Pastoral Community Development Project II in partnership with the International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD). Implementation of the project will be overseen by the Federal Project Coordination Unit of the Ministry of Federal Affairs, with regional governments playing a key role.
For more information on the World Bank in sub-Saharan Africa visit: www.worldbank.org/afr
For more information on the World Bank in Ethiopia visit: www.worldbank.org/ethiopia
For more information about this project click here.
Contacts:
In Washington: Aby Toure +1 (202) 473 8302
[email protected]
In Addis Ababa : Gelila Woodeneh (251-1) 662 77 00
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12 thoughts on “World Bank approved $80 million for the Meles dictatorship”
Again worldbank is saving the Woyane’s ass. they do it as if they are helping Ethiopians but the aim is to save Woyanne from the crisis they are in. They are talking about pastoralist but the urban dwellers are dying from hunger, high life costs. Somali region is deliberately by Woyane devastated instead of arresting the criminal gang they reward them $80.000.000. This prolongs the life of Woyane. I hope when the Democrats (Obama) come to power things would change. If the Republican (Macain- wins then we have a problem. the Woyane lobbyst is a good friend of this vietnam veteran.)
bye guys
Woyane had been reaping the world bank in the name of Ethiopia. Where is all the money they have been taking all these years. The Economic Development they have been boasting is proved to be bogus, as the recent famine exposed their cheating.
I am sure, this fund will end up in the so called “Investors” hand to build swiming pools for the shark woyanes.
It is a joke, as world bank officers knows it well.
Elias, minu new yanadedeh? Legeter limat genzeb mesetetu yihen yakil yaskefah lemin yihon?
Benegerachin lay, ke ETN gar baderekew wuyiyit lay yanten misil bemayete anten bemaweke amesegnalehu. Edaw wondimawi mikir, lemindin new yetachignawn kenferihin yan yakil mekera yemitabelaw? Min yakil nech endehone atayewm? So, please take action as soon as possible, otherwise you will lose it early.
Elias, you must be hallucinating. Get rid off your evil thoughts!!
IMF keep pouring all this money because Meles, their Mobutu Sese Seko version of 21 century, is doing a good job in messing up Ethiopia! IMF is basically financing the murdering of innocent Ethiopian people and prolonging the suffering of our people just like what they had done with the Mobutu Sese Seko of Congo!
This is good News for ethiopian ,but Bad news for Ethiopian enamy like you Elias. What can you do EPRDF is leading this country effientelly and effectively .
Thanks Melse,
Spend the money and bath in wine, While bombing and occupaing a neighbour country (Somalia and Ogaden) I tell you this. This will not last for long time. Enjoy the time. When the day of revenge come. Even the United state can help you. All countrys in East Africa wants to get rid of Meles. He puts the whole region down in everlasting poverty and wars. Useless nigger slave.
I am always surprised by the contrast I see in your comments Elias. Some times you seem thoughtful but most of the times you are such an ignorant!!!
Oh, my God, what a jerk are you! You do not like it when pastoralists are benefiting? you do not like it when the poor go to school? you do not like it when roads are built? And also you want to kick WORLD Bank and IMF out? You remind me of the Dregue’s “imperialism yewudem(down with).
Please get your self some enlightenment man!
How much of these dollars do you think is going to the Ethiopian people? Zero and if there is any it will go to Meles, Azeb, Seyoum Mesfin, Mebrahtu G/hiwet, and the rest of the weyane thugs. Thank to the 21st century now we know who kept Africa and Africans in the dark for so long. Wake-up my Ethiopian people.
Victorious Meles Seitanawi (Zenawi) has come home with $80 million as a reward for his servitude for Washington under George W. Bush, his mentor and protector, and the money is to help the Oromia regions purposely to silence the Oromia Liberation Movement and to enervate it.
Would the $80 million solve Meles’ problem with Somalia, Ogaden, Amhara, Oromia, and Eritrea, or would it feed the 3.4 million hungry Ethiopians? If it were $80 million, it would help the Ethiopian poor, but running a big country, like Ethiopia, with donation money is not going to solve the root cause of poverty in Ethiopia – greed created by the Woyanne’s political leaders addicted to open bribery and blackmailing.
Meles will continue to run the country with the help of World Bank and with the psychological support from Washington. Of course, if Meles does not get help, he would sell some parts of the country, and he still will be in power until he has nothing left to sell.
Dictators all over the world now have one economic resource, putting their subjects in bondage for a long time to come. This economic resource of theirs is the World Bank, so our fight from now on should include the World Bank that supports dictators, the source of corruption and oppressions.
In theory, citizens have the authority to prioritize their economic needs when they received the money from the World Bank; in practice, however, the citizens are empowered to be silent, not to say any thing how Meles is going to spend the $80 billion; he would spend it the way he wants to, and no one is going to hold him accountable for the money he got from the World Bank, enemy of the poor and friend of the dictators.
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