{"id":256298,"date":"2023-04-03T15:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-european-union-france-and-ethiopia-signed-a-32-million-euro-financial-support-agreement?lang=en"},"modified":"2023-04-03T15:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:13:48","slug":"the-european-union-france-and-ethiopia-signed-a-32-million-euro-financial-support-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-european-union-france-and-ethiopia-signed-a-32-million-euro-financial-support-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"The European Union, France and Ethiopia signed a 32 million Euro Financial support agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/thumb\/4811e9fd72d9e3d\/600\/418\" alt=\"Ministry of Finance, Ethiopia\" \/><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/africarc\/loganalytics?press_id=248565&amp;press_source=Ministry of Finance, Ethiopia\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Union (EU), France Development Agency and Ethiopian government&nbsp;signed a 32 million Euro Financial support agreement at a ceremony held in Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The financing agreement is intended to the project Food security and Agriculture Rehabilitation measures in Conflict-Affected Regions of Ethiopia which is funded 18 million Euro by AFD and&nbsp;14 million Euro by the EU respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The project will be implemented by the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Transformation (ATI)&nbsp;in northern Ethiopia especially in the areas affected by the conflict in Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions providing farmers with the necessary resources to restart production and rehabilitate the service infrastructure in order to avoid an unprecedented crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The project has two components:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Addressing the most urgent needs by reviving agricultural production in these areas, and<\/li>\n<li>Strengthening food self-sufficiency in Ethiopia. In the first phase, improved seeds will be provided (cereals, legumes and vegetables), as well as an improved breed of poultry, selected small ruminants, horticultural seeds and irrigation pumps that will benefit at least 533,000 households.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The financing agreement was signed by H.E Semereta Sewasew state minister of Finance, H.E Val&eacute;rie Tehio, AFD director in Ethiopia and&nbsp;Dr. Stefan Lock, Head of Cooperation at the EU Delegation to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Finance, Ethiopia.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"well well-sm\"><b>Media files<\/b><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/f219683f2cd6b7b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/f219683f2cd6b7b\" alt=\"Ministry of Finance, Ethiopia\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/f219683f2cd6b7b\">Download logo<\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU), France Development Agency and Ethiopian government&nbsp;signed a 32 million Euro Financial support agreement at a ceremony held in Ministry of Finance. The financing agreement is intended to the project Food security and Agriculture Rehabilitation measures in Conflict-Affected Regions of Ethiopia which is funded 18 million Euro by AFD and&nbsp;14 million Euro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-256298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/the-european-union-france-and-ethiopia-signed-a-32-million-euro-financial-support-agreement.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}