About the Program
Program Objectives
- Generate policy research results to fill key knowledge gaps on a needs basis that would help strengthen the design and implementation of Ethiopia's rural development strategy
- Build a stronger and more integrated knowledge support system within the country to underpin future food policy analysis and to help inform key rural development strategy decisions
- Strengthen the capacity of Ethiopian policy research institutions through active collaboration in applied rural development policy research and through targeted training programs
- Contribute to the design and implementation of a national monitoring and evaluation system for the rural sector to track progress against goals and to provide feedback on how the strategy and its implementation can be improved over time
Program Structure
The three major pillars of the program include:
- A rural economy knowledge support system (REKSS) to integrate knowledge and to conduct analyses on the rural economy, and to track the impact of rural investments and activities
- Actionable applied research to improve or fill gaps in knowledge on rural development, and
- Policy analysis capacity strengthening through targeted training and related activities.
Program Office
The program is located on the main IFPRI-Ethiopia office on the ILRI campus in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The program also has an active research and outreach base at EDRI, where it works closely with national collaborators and research partners from the various government and research agencies. The REKSS, including the GIS laboratory, is housed in EDRI. Similarly, training workshops, seminars, and other capacity strengthening activities are based in EDRI.
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