Ireland's overseas aid: Irish Aid in Ethiopia

Food and agriculture

• Ethiopia depend heavily on agriculture
• Droughts are becoming more common => crop failure => poverty
• People need humanitarian aid
• Irish aid => new technology + seeds
• Work for food programme

Equality issues

• Irish aid supports gender equality
• Ethiopian Women’s Lawyers Association => free legal aid to women
• Ethiopian Centre of Disability => helps people with disabilities

HIV/AIDS

• 7% of Irish Aid’s budget spent to tackle HIV/AIDS epidemic in Ethiopia
• 700,000 people live with the disease
• 1 million children have been made orphans by the disease

Governance

• 6% spent on Governance issues
• Makes sure Irish aid actually get to people who need it