Building climate-resilient agriculture in Ethiopia: From training to investment

SCALA is a joint program being implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and FAO, whose goal is to support Ethiopia in achieving its climate adaptation and mitigation objectives within the agriculture and land-use sectors.

The three-day ToT workshop was specifically designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of local actors, including government experts, development agents, and frontline practitioners, on climate change fundamentals and climate-smart agriculture practices, business plan development, and the design of effective Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) frameworks. The Climate-Smart Agriculture Investment Plan (CSAIP) for Ethiopia, which was developed by the Alliance under AICCRA, served as a tool/framework for the training, whereby its methodology was adapted and applied within the SCALA Ethiopia program to guide the design of local-level climate-resilient business plans.

“The workshop aimed to equip participants to identify local investment priorities, develop tailored and finance-ready business plans to unlock finance from the SCALA program, and establish systems for tracking progress and scaling successful climate-resilient agricultural interventions”. Lydia Tesfaye, Research Officer II, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT