By Mulatu Tadele
It is disclosed that Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA) is under construction of tissue culture technology centre in Bahir Dar City with an outlay of 13.5 million Birr secured from NORAD (a Norway based nongovernmental organization).
Currently ORDA is on the verge to complete the Center including construction of green house, laboratory and office infrastructures in Bahir Dar city, Amhara Region. According to Dr.Yeshanew Ashagre, Development Extension & Research Program Director, the center is intended to providing services including multiplication of planting materials for highly demanded species of trees, horticultural and other field crops.
According to his explanation the institute can be used for teaching and research purposes and is expected to be completed and start providing services with in the coming few months.
The major expected beneficiaries include farmers, governmental and non-governmental and research institutes, individuals engaged in agriculture and natural resources as well as business organizations engaged in development of horticulture and floriculture and beneficiaries of the institute-constituencies, Dr.Yeshanew notifies.
Bahir Dar Urban Sanitation Project to start in 2013
By Fasil Wolde Michael
Mrs. Ursula Langkamp, Country Director for Welthungerhilfe in Ethiopia, announced in the interview held recently that the Organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara /ORDA/ will
start to implement Urban Sanitation Project in Bahir Darin January, 2013.
The Country Director stressed that ORDA and Welthungerhilfe are always taking up very innovative approaches as practiced in the MDG WaSH and the Biodiversity projects. She also unveiled that the long lasting partnership is now going up for Urban Sanitation, which is new for both of them.
Mrs. Langkamp also mentioned a lesson that partners of ORDA and Welthungerhilfe can learn from them: “With ORDA we never got stuck; there is always progress and development. This is the most important aspect of our partnership.”
The Country Director also made clear how both partnership relations is: “We fully have to rely on each other’s capacity and responsibility; reliability is ORDA’s strength. We are very satisfied with the cooperation.”
The project will be implemented with the budget estimated over 3.3 million Euro funded from the Welthungerhilfe, the European Community and the Ethiopian Government, which will have over 100,000 beneficiaries, she revealed.
Having started their partnership 20 years ago in emergency and rehabilitation projects, ORDA and Welthungerhilfe are accomplishing development projects focusing on food security and WASH, she noted.
