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What else is exciting more than supporting the poor & alleviating their root cause problems? Project Proposal on Ecotourism Development and Generation of Livelihoods around Tebbi Dam in Mekdela Woreda of South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia Prepared By: Mr. Gashaw Abebe (BA)-PSNP-PWs P/M&E Specialist Mr. Misganw Kelemework (BSc)-Natural Resource Expert at Mr. Seid Mohammed (BSc) - PSNP-PWs Natural Resource Specialist Contact Address, 251910119384-251334500236/38/39 Mekdella-Masha, Ethiopia May 2014 (Revised)

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Project Proposal on Ecotourism Development and Generation of Livelihoods

around Tebbi Dam in Mekdela Woreda of South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia

Prepared By:

Mr. Gashaw Abebe (BA)-PSNP-PWs P/M&E Specialist

Mr. Misganw Kelemework (BSc)-Natural Resource Expert at

Mr. Seid Mohammed (BSc) - PSNP-PWs Natural Resource Specialist

Contact Address, 251910119384-251334500236/38/39

Mekdella-Masha, Ethiopia

May 2014 (Revised)

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Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge Mekdela Woreda

Administration Counseling and Agriculture Development

Office for their logistical and valuable ongoing support to

effectively get end the project document. It is our gratitude to

Mekdela Woreda Natural Resource Experts in the agriculture

development office who provide us the necessary data and

critical suggestions in building the project contents.

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Executive Summary

Entitled by the project name locally, “Akababihin Bezelakinet Adin” (Save your Environment

Sustainably-SYES) with the title of the project; A Project Proposal on Ecotourism Development and

Generation of Livelihoods around Tebbi Dam in Mekdela Woreda. The project is located at a distance

of 11km in the North West direction of Masha Town the capital of Mekdela. The project site has an

altitude of 2782 m above sea level and an average rain fall of 891.23 mm.

The primary aim in which this project has been launched is to save “Tebbi Dam” sustainably by

participating poor households (land less youths, female headed families, HIV/AIDS Orphans and very

vulnerable to poverty part of the societies) and land holders of the dam beneficiaries to make better soil

and water conservation activities on their farm land in order to minimize soil erosion that fills the dam

with siltation and introducing lodges& hotels around the dam to empower & food secure the local

communities. To make it achievable the project focuses on the field of Ecotourism Development intervention in

Tebbi Dam of 012 kebele under the province of mekdela woreda of South Wollo Zone since 2014.

Lodge and hotel building around the dam is the complementary intervention of the project that intends

to create income and employment opportunities for more than 270 unemployed youths of the kebele.

Though, it is not functioning well up to now constrained by inadequate beginning capital, tools&

equipment, before this, Mekdela Woreda Administration Counseling Office (local administrator) had

been built lodges around the dam. Improving the function of these lodges is therefore additional attempt

of the project. If the dam has been sustainably saved directly, the project will also benefit more than

617 household heads of land holders around the dam.

The project intend to recommend land holders of the dam beneficiaries to plant exotic and fast growing

indigenous plant species on soil& water conservation physical structures that will be made around the dam and

hence to make the area the field of biodiversity and/ or the diverse source of fauna and flora as well as microbial

resources. Definitely, the project aims to make the area the center of paradise where tourists take breath after

they have visited all the natural and artificial historical sites of Mekdela. Simultaneously, the project strengthen

the link between environmental development and tourist attraction sites and therefore to provide positive

experience for both visitors and hosts. Therefore, the project significantly needs 124,679,635 of ETB

(6,361,205.87 US $) to entirely run its deal.

NB.

The effort of the project that intends to link environmental development and tourist attraction sites makes

it unique beyond the significant contribution of its positive experience for both visitors and hosts.

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1. Introduction

1.1. Background Information

One of the rural woreda of ANRS of S/Wollo Zone establishing its capital town Masha at distance

of 152 km in the West direction of Dessie is Mekdella Woreda. It is delimited by woredas of

Dawunt&Delanta in the North, Saint in the South, Tenta in the East and Gaint in the West.

Mekdela, the place where the 1860s Ethiopian Emperor TewodrosII the time heroic leader managed

ever than before to unit Ethiopia had suicide himself rather than giving his hand to British armies.

Mekdela Woreda has been established as an independently province since 1991. It is alienated from

the former “Tenta Awuraga” for administrative purpose. Currently, Mekdela is inhabited

by154561peoples of whom 75419 are males and the other 79142 are females. There are 37410

house hold heads. Total area of the woreda is 152100 hectare with diverse landscape features of

which 35288 ha cultivable, 8271 ha irrigable, 9641 ha grazing, 45455 ha forestry and bush, 4228 ha

institutional buildings & residential lands, 1254 ha perennial crops and 59962 ha of land which will

be used for agricultural production in the future. The average farmland holding size of the woreda is

0.97 ha of which 0.71ha of land is suitable for crop production and the rest uses for grazing

purpose. Topography of Mekdela is partitioned in to 41.5% undulating, 23.25% mountainous, and

35% plane/flat surface/.This ridged terrain topography of the land has its own contribution for its

chronic food insecurity. Its altitude ranges from 1500-3200m a.s.l. owing to its agro-ecological

zone of 28% ``Dega``, 26.4%``Wina Dega``, 44% “Kolla”and 1.6% “Wurich”. It has an average

rain fall of 916mm per annum and has the temperature of 3.10c-25.50c.

Twenty-nine rural peasant associations of which 4 kebeles produce during “Belg” season on 4848ha of

land, 20 in “meher” that produce on 23876ha of land and the rest 4 kebeles produce in both seasons on

689ha of land and one urban kebele encompass Mekdela. The main area wise crops produce in Mekdela

are Teff, wheat, barley and sorghum. Crop production is the leading economic activity of the woreda.

Livestock production is the major subsidiary income source of the agrarian communities further than

being a means of better social status. There are 121150 cattle (38467 cows, 12098 heifers, 14898 bulls,

39282 oxen and 16405 calves), 214625 sheep and goats, 20276(2330 mules,2454 horses and15492

donkeys) back animals, 120955 poultries, and 10688 beehives. Almost all residences of the woreda get

their livelihoods from agriculture. An individual needs 2.19Ql of grain to meet his annual food need in

accordance of the standard of the woreda.

To further bring diversified income sources and afford employment opportunities for the local

communities of Mekdela Woreda currently, the Administration Counseling office has carried out

different development initiatives. Model Lodge project launched at a distance of 11 km in the North

West direction of Masha town in 012 kebele-around Tebbi Dam is among the different development

initiatives.

However, the office has started to carry out the above project; it could no longer be able to widely

achieve the objective in which the project has been embarked. On the other hand, the effort made by the

government to provide income source and employment opportunity for youths/adult/ alone is not

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enough rather it deserves the cumulative effort of the community, NGOs, and the private sector to

defend them from economic dependence. Therefore, to bring considerable and sustainable economic

development, unemployed youths/adult/ should be supported by other on and off farm activities such as

ecotourism activities in which that this project stretches its hand forward to more than 270 youth/adult/

to create income sources and employment opportunities further than its strive to bring community

based sustainable environmental conservation/development.

2. Situational Analysis /Problem Justification/

Our country Ethiopia is endowed with varied natural and human made historical tourist

attraction sites. However, the country is not fully using its potential source of tourism economy

due to its inadequate capital to promote the tourism sector for both foreign & indigenous

visitors further than its long term reveal in civil war, boarder conflict, poverty, inaccessible

infrastructural facilities and backwardness. As compared to its abundant historical tourist

attraction sites, the tourism sector has insignificant contribution to the country’s GDP which is

not exceeding more than 8% and has limited employment opportunities.

For instance, in Mekdela, there are more than nine natural and artificial historical tourist

attraction sites of which only six sites are delimited& protected by local administrators from

animal and human interference.

Among the historical sites of the woreda the Gott Giorgis cave which is excavated from a

rock is the one immovable heritage of Mekdela. But its economic contribution due to

infrastructural and transportation inaccessibility is insignificant. Others like the hut of prince

Michael of Wollo which is built from forty-four oxen’s leather in 1880s is the other heritage of

the woreda. Similarly, at national level the well-known prophetic Sheikh Hussien Jibril’s grave

and his heritage are also found here, currently, it is visited by many local tourists. What makes

Mekdela unique is its richness in tourist attraction sites in both Christian and Muslim historical

heritages though infrastructural and transportation in accessibilities and near to none promotion

of these historical sites to the local and foreign visitors is the bottleneck to its development.

Now, this project has managed to promote and establish ecotourism activities to further

enhance and conserve historical tourist attraction sites beyond the introduction of natural

conservation and improving of local economy status of communities.

The concept of ecotourism has been defined by The International Ecotourism Society in 1990,

as responsible travel to natural areas that conserve the environment and improves the well-

being of local people.

Taking this concept as a common definition of ecotourism this project is intended to be

established at the local district of Tebbi Dam in 012 kebele. The dam had been constructed by

CERAR project in 1991E.C. This dam is located at a distance of 11km in the North West of

Masha-the capital of Mekdela. It has an average height of 17.2 m and a volume of more than 2

million m3. It can irrigate more than 180 ha of land per a year. The dam beneficiaries are more

than 617 farmers. Before the establishment of the dam the surrounding farmers had got 7.4Ql/ha

of grain on average over the past five years. However, after the establishment of the dam, on an

average of the past five years, the farmers had got 29Ql/ha of grain on the same farm land.

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Since, irrigation makes easy and develop self-confidence to use modern agricultural inputs and

technologies the potential need of farmers to secure capital wealth to buy selected seeds,

agricultural technologies and inputs has shown progressive change ever than before. The dam

has been drastically improved lives and livelihoods of the beneficiaries. Some farmers have

bought mills& cars while most of the others have deposited certain amount of money in banks

in addition to building can roof houses. At the current moment the dam beneficiaries have been

producing vegetables products relatively in large amount than the other areas and supplying it to

the market to feed the market demand of Masha Town.

However, recently, the dam has been endangering of being filled in silts which adversely sets

back the livelihood and economic status of beneficiaries. Other than the different causes of

siltation problems the ploughing of farm lands near to the bank of the dam is the salient factor

that severely accelerates the distraction of the dam. Therefore, to halt this and other interrelated

problems this project intending to get on ecotourism project around the dam. The dam so far has

been used only for the purpose of irrigation development. Other agricultural complementary

activities like ecotourism development interventions were not visualized for the woreda as far

dating from the establishment of the dam.

Since ecotourism is an environmental friendly source of income generating scheme, it will play

incredible role to the local communities and youths in multiple ways.

The first principal need of ecotourism intervention is to enable land holders of the dam area ever

more to practice improved soil and water conservation activities in coordination with poor

households (land less youths, female headed families, HIV/AIDS Orphans and very vulnerable

to poverty part of the societies) on farm land so as to minimize the soil erosion and run of

water/flood/ that makes siltation on the dam. Biological conservation and planting on soil bunds

on the surrounding mountainous and farm land areas of the dam is the other recommended

measure of practices to save the dam from siltation. The project intend to advice land holders of

the dam beneficiaries to plant exotic and fast growing indigenous plant species on soil& water

conservation physical structures to make the area the field of biodiversity and / or the diverse

source of fauna and flora as well as microbial resources. Definitely, the project aims to make the

area the center of paradise/park/ where tourists take breath after they have visited all the natural

and artificial historical sites of Mekdela.

Despite the fact that the effort of the Woreda administration counseling office/local

administrator/ can be appreciated in building lodges around the dam prior to this, it is not

functioning well up to now constrained by inadequate beginning capital, tools& equipment.

Therefore, the other purpose of the project is to enhance and build lodges and hotel and other

complementary activities like fishing, pool house, Carrabolla, table tense, internet café, shop,

DS-TV and library/book rent/ around the selected areas of the dam which will generate income

and employ more youths in addition to consuming of local commercial farming products. This

further, will encourage& motivate the dam beneficiaries to produce commercial crops such

as fruits and vegetables to nearly supply it for the lodges catering and hotels. This

advancement will attract the focus of the local community sustainably to conserve the

dam.

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On the other hand, the effort of the government an alone does not enough to engage & employ

all active labor force in governmental institutions. Such community based productive assets

should be encouraged to absorb the significant portion of the labor force. In this case the

projected lodges and hotels have intended to employ more than 23 youths in this year and will

be improved by 35% each year and will be adjusted based on the investment return.

Similarly, the communities will not solely relay on a single income & employment opportunity

sources of agricultural products, rather they will be engaged on producing off farm activities

like pity trade, handcraft, beekeeping, animal fattening, wool processing, lumbering, Swing

machine, weaving, mate preparation, etc. These off farm products are the potential inputs of the

project which can be sold for tourists at the recreation center of lodges and hotels. In this case,

the project aims to technically support and encourage off farm producers to adequately supply

their products at the recreation center.

However, all the above interrelated and diversified ecotourism activities have indispensable

economic benefits to the home areas of the woreda; they can be materialized if and only if the

dam has been saved sustainably. Therefore, the project does not only requisite you (your

organization) to financially grant it but also your closer dimensional support and advice from

the point view of enhancing ecotourism development to bring community based and sounded

environmental sustainability.

2.1. Target Group Analysis

The project has been emerged with the aim of benefiting the communities in two ways i.e. the local

beneficiaries around the dam mainly including poor households (land less youths, female headed

families, HIV/AIDS Orphans and very vulnerable to poverty part of the societies) and youths who

will supply their labor force for lodges and hotels. During the beneficiary selection poor households

will be given priority based on their strive to breakout from vicious- cycle of poverty and they will

be selected and verified by the active participation of communities & kebele administrators.

3. project objectives/Goal/

The objectives of this project are:

To back up and support the effort of local communities in their endeavor to improve soil and water

conservation activities around “Tebbi Dam” to save it from siltation at least by 90 % by providing

them with the necessary materials inputs, financial resources and technical supports/advice.

To reduce food gap months of chronic & transitorily food insecure households through transfer

budget

To benefit the surrounding farmers of the dam by planting perennial crops which will reduce

frequent ploughing of the farm land especially at the upper catchment of dam.

To demonstrate and promote the development& expansion of other alternative sources of income

such as lodges and hotels around the dam which will generate income and employment

opportunities as a minimum for 270 land less youths/adults/ since 2014

To strengthen the link between environmental development and tourist attraction sites and therefore

to provide positive experience for both visitors and hosts.

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To save the dam sustainably by enabling land holders of the dam beneficiaries to make better soil and

water conservation activities on their farm land in order to minimize soil erosion that fills the dam with

siltation and introducing lodges& hotels around the dam to empower & food secure the local

communities beyond supporting food insecure households through transfer payment is the exact goal of

the project.

3.1. Project Inputs

Since, the project seeks to provide a long term response for the sustainability of the dam; it

needs a significant material, human and financial inputs which will cost 124,679,635 of

ETB (6,361,205.87 US $). Essential detail inputs to materialize the project are out lined on

table 2&3.

3.2. Project Out Puts

Some of the visible outputs of the project, which can be taken as indicators of the activities

attainment are beneficiary selection based on standardize food security assessment criteria,

construction of lodges & hotels, purchase of agro forestry seeds that will be planted around

the dam, farming tools and equipment, conducting training for beneficiary representatives

how to implement improved soil and water conservation activities and other complementary

activities.

3.3. Methodologies/Activities

To achieve the intended objectives & long term goal of the project the available facts and other

necessary figures are gathered, analyzed, and interpreted using qualitative and quantitative date

with some tabulation techniques.

Community representatives will be formed to closely follow up the day to day function of the

project as well as reflecting the interest of local communities regarding the ongoing benefits of

the project. These committees will successfully follow up physical and financial activities of the

project from planning, implementation to monitoring and evaluation.

The project will have stakeholders like Mekdela Woreda Agriculture Development office that

will technically support it besides its well-trained staffs that will be hired after the fund has been

available.

The project is also an open-ended to accept rules, regulations and recommendations of the

funding organization.

4. Project Site

The project is located at a distance of 11km in the North West direction of Masha Town the

capital of Mekdela in South Wollo Zone of Amhara National Regional state, Ethiopia. The

project site has an altitude of 2782 m above sea level and an average rain fall of 800mm.

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Geographically, the site is located at latitude of 37P 0501163 m East and longitudinally UTM

1240881 m North.

On the other hand, the possession of the land where the lodge and hotel is getting build is

communal land and holders of possession are voluntary for the purpose of this establishment.

Zero is a farmer who will be displaced in accordance of the project building site. The base map

of Tebbi Dam is illustrated as follows.

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5. Project Life/Action plan

Here are depicted the activities intended to be implemented and the time needed to carry out the

activities.

Table1.

Note.

The implementing period will be adjusted based on the despercement of the fund.

6. Implementation Strategies

To achieve the intended objectives the project will follow an approach ensuring the full participation of

the beneficiary representatives and all concerned stakeholders starting from financial reception to

implementation and monitoring & evaluation. Moreover, to follow up the day-to-day function of the

project six contracts Degree holders will be hired as a coordinator of the project in different fields of

specialization. Under them two other Hotel Management contract staffs one for the lodge and the other

for the hotel will be employed to manage the entire function of the loge and hotel. More than 23

unemployed youths who are selected based on the interest of the community will join the project and

they will get short term technical training on hotel management areas. Correspondingly, training will be

conducted for selected beneficiaries to uplift their potential knowledge on improved soil and water

conservation practices, biological conservation measures and ecotourism concepts.

A call for meeting will be undertaken quarterly among the beneficiary representatives and other

stakeholders to discuss regarding the effective functioning of the project and to fine-tune the work if

there is operational constraint.

No

.

Activities Implementing Period Remark

1 Submitting the fudging proposal to the concerned development partner Up to 12 June 2014

2 If the required fund is available: up to 25 July 2014

Formulating steering committees& community representatives From 10-23 August 2014

Awareness generation for the local communities & steering

committees about the aim of the project

From 25August 2014----

Conducting trainings for land holders around the dam on

improved soil and water conservation practices besides bid

posting to construct lodges & hotels around the dam

From l-20 September 2014

Purchasing plant seedlings and supplying to the selected

farmers that can be planted on soil & water structures.

From 25 October- 20

December 2014

Completing lodges& hotel building and running the project at

full scale level

On warding December 2014

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7. Organization and Management

At all level the project will have the necessary staffs & facilities /services/ to fully hold the

responsibility of managing and implementing project activities.

7.1. Linkage of Responsibility Sharing Bodies

To achieve the goal launched all the concerned bodies should involve vigilantly from

planning preparation to its implementation and hence play a significant role in monitoring

& evaluation system. Some of the concerning bodies and their considerable role can be

mentioned as follows:

I. The Community

The beneficiaries including the communities found in the dam area are required

to play a significant role by taking part on the following activities.

Taking active participation in planning, implementing, monitoring & evaluation

activities

Under taking soil& water conservation practices sustainably

Provision of free labor force when there is a public work that requires huge

amount of labor force e.g. reservoir and canal maintenance as well as road

maintenance that take tourists to lodges & hotels.

Identifying target group beneficiaries/ lodges and hotel servants/

Identifying difficulties for working environment

II. Project Coordination Office

Since, it is the main stakeholder and coordinator of the project; it mobilizes communities to be strongly

involved on all methods that make the project efficient and effective further than familiarizing the

project to all stakeholders and beneficiaries.

Enabling and developing the project ownership feeling of the communities

Coordinate local communities to fairly select poor households (land less youths, female headed families,

HIV/AIDS Orphans and very vulnerable to poverty part of the societies)/

Preparing the project plan & making it to be implemented

Awareness generation & capacity building for both implementers & stakeholders especially on soil and

water conservation activities.

Collaborating the effort of the communities to carry out improved soil and water conservation activities

around the dam

Providing integrated technical support by encouraging the effort of communities to maintain and keep

the dam sustainably by introducing biological soil conservation actives around the dam

Introducing fishing and commercial crops around the dam beneficiaries

Providing agricultural inputs, technologies and selected seeds of plant and perennial crops around land

holders of the dam beneficiaries.

Allocating & following up of financial flows

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Need to create conducive environment to lead, manage & implement activities including the supply of

electric power to lodges and hotels and road accessibilities.

Taking closer monitoring & evaluation practices and setting long lasting solutions if problems exist

Need to confirm the leveling of activities on the ground and the forthcoming of expected

impact/changes/

Submitting progressive M&E report to Donor representatives & other concerned bodies

III. Mekedella Woreda Administration Counseling and Agriculture Development Office

Facilitating the communities to actively participate on the project intervention

Need to create conducive environment for the supply of electric power and potable

water to lodges and hotels and road accessibilities.

Providing recognition for the project's contribution as a development partner

Settling disputes and conflicts that may raise around the project site

IV. Woreda Women, Child Youth and Small and Micro Enterprise,

Development Office

Identifying unemployed youths, organizing and training them in which the project needs

Organizing and building skills of youths to be engaged on off farm activities like pity trade,

handcraft, wool processing, lumbering, Swing machine, weaving, mate preparation etc and

encourage them to supply their product to lodges and hotels.

V. Donors

Timely despercement of the fund

Taking physical M&E assessment rather than report view

Providing advisory services

8. Encountering problems/Risk-Assumptions/

It is not as such smooth and easy, to get the goal at end, there may be some uncertainties such as:

Siltation

Drought and deforestation

Flooding and soil erosion

Traditional farming and need of the community to continue on adapted cereal crops

cultivation

Waste disposal from lodges and residents around the dam

Budget limitation & volatile pricing

9. Formulating Solutions Except the natural disasters;

Physical and biological conservation practices will be made at the upper catchment and

around the dam to prevent siltation

Waste deposal mechanisms will be employed to mitigate the matter

experience sharing and awareness generation will be introduced to adapt conservation

based farming system

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10. Good opportunities to run the project Since the project has several institutional stakeholders it gets a strong back up from each of them in

various ways. For instance, woreda agriculture development office will provide its multidisciplinary

expertise particularly in irrigation development schemes, natural conservation activities and crop

production mechanisms.

Similarly, at the time when the project fund comes to decline these offices will collaborate to

support the project materially, financially and technically.

11. Project Benefits

11.1. Economic Benefit

The project is the source of diversified incomes i.e. on and off farm activities

Improve the livelihood and income sources of local communities.

11.2. Social Benefit

Beyond the establishment of economically independent citizens the availability and accessibility of

lodges and hotel around the dam give substantial social services to the surrounding communities and

tourists.

Saving the dam sustainably and improving the livelihood status of farmers around it.

The recreation center will be used as leisure time spending area for youths, local communities and

tourists accordingly which reduces the negative impact of drug abuse and the incidence of

HIV/AIDS

11.3. Environmental Benefit

It develops community based biophysical soil and water conservation practices further than

improving the coverage of natural resources endowments/forest resources.

Adapting and promoting green environment projects that have strong link with tourism

11.4. Political Benefit

Filling food gap months of some sort of food insecure communities

Employing youths/adults/

12. Sustainability of the Project

Since the project entails participatory nature of planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating

activities, it gets a strong backup from Agriculture Development and Administration Counseling Offices,

further than Kebele Development Agents, Primary stakeholders and other concerned bodies who ensure the

sustainability of the project. On the other hand, the investment return/profit/ of lodges and hotels will be

used as an revolving fund to strengthen involvement and response of the project on different encountering

problems and alternative community development initiatives such as dam & road maintenance, to replicable

the project at other sites, to make broad components of the project or to include other interventions such as

fishing, animal fattening, beekeeping, etc.

13. Monitoring and Evaluation

The Project coordination office will undertake monitoring while evaluation is the joint function of donor

representative, coordination offices and the stakeholders. Different monitoring and evaluation tools such as

field visit, beneficiaries interview, meetings and workshops with the communities and stakeholders will be

used to assess the performance of the intervention. Furthermore, committee members will have a quarterly

meeting with the whole beneficiaries at each project site, present project achievements and bring feed backs

to the general meetings. This absolutely, enables us to track the ongoing function and performance of the

project and hence to make back on track implementation of the project activates. Achievement/Impact/ of

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the project will be evaluated twice a year i.e. on January 2015 to assess the project at output level and July

2015 to assess at outcome level. Progressive monitoring and evaluation reports will be submitted to the

funding organization and concerned stakeholders based on the term of the system.

14. Budget Estimation

This is clearly illustrated at Microsoft Excel Sheet on Table 2&3.

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Budget Breakdown for the up Coming Three Years in Ethiopian Birr (ETB) Table 3

Budget Breakdown for the up Coming Three Years in Ethiopian Birr (ETB) Table 3.

No Activity Types Unit Quantity Unit Price in ETB Total price=Quantity X Unit price X 3 Years Remark

I Admin Budget Allocation Birr 9,335,948

1 Stationeries (including computer with its full accessories) 1,750,948

2 Double Cup Toyota No 1 2,300,000 2,300,000

2.1 Vehicle maintenance, oil and lubricant 2,135,000

3 Human Resource Costs Salary per month

Total salary=Quantity X salary per month X12 months X 3 Years

3.1 Project Coordinator No 1 15,000 540,000

3.2 Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation Officer No 1 12,500 450,000

3.3 Natural Resource Officer No 1 12,500 450,000

3.4 Community Mobilizer No 1 10,500 378,000

3.5 Accountant No 1 12,000 432,000

3.6 Casher No 1 9,500 342,000

3.7 Driver No 1 4,500 162,000

3.8 Hotel Manager No 1 5,500 198,000

3.9 Lodge manager No 1 5,500 198,000

Sum Birr 3,150,000

II Capital Budget Allocation Birr

1 Hotel and lodge construction 3,500,000 This is to employ youths on hotel and lodge

2 Seed purchasing for nursery Dev't 4,747,895

3 Hand tools and gabion box 5,350,145

Sum Birr 13,598,040

III Transfer Budget Allocation No Quantity Salary per month

Total salary=Quantity X salary per month X6 months a year X 3 Years

Beneficiaries will work for six months from 01 January to 30 June since these seasons are suitable for biophysical soil and water conservation activities.

1 Total beneficiaries No 2500 64 86,400,000

IV Contingency Budget 15,345,647

Grand Total (I+II+III+IV) Birr 124,679,635 Equivalent to US$=6,361,205.87

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