Ethiopia - Institutionnal Support to Valley development

The project aims to acheve the following : - To build up the Ethiopian Valleys Development Studies Authoriry's (EVDSA) insitutional framework through the provision of urgently required technical assistance, training and infrastructures ; - To review the activities proposed to come under the mandate of EVDSA in relation to the activities of other existing institutions ; - To review EVDSA's internal organisational structure and management and its linkages with other agencies, in order to set up a strong and cost-effective organisational foundation for the Authority which will enable it to carry out its mandated functions ; and - To develop long term strategies and action programmes for EVDSA as a whole and for its internal fonctional units.