Abstract:
This volume contains proposals for the expansion of EPID
during the period 1975/76 - 1979/80, referred to as EPID
Phase II, It is anticipated that also during its Phase II
EPID will be supported by the same donors as at present„
i.e. IBRD/lDA, SIDA, USAID, r. NIDA/FAO, ODA, However, these
proposals are prepared primarily with regard to the future
support to be given by SIDAo The current agreement between
the Ethiopian and the Swedish governments for support to
small farmer development programmes, i.e. to CADU and EPID,
expires at the end of the 1974/75 fiscal year. The intention
is that a new agreement may be negotiated on the basis
of the present proposals made by EPID and of those made by
CADU, and that this new agreement will dovetail with the
former and thus come in force with the 1975/76 fiscal year.
To date SIDA has provided both technical assistance and
budgetary support to EPID's Minimum Package Programme. Since
the Minimum Package Programme from the 1973/74 fiscal year is
being financed mainly by IBRD/lDA, and since a request for a
second loan from this source will be prepared in due course,
it is not envisaged to request further budgetary support
from SIDA to this Programme. It is rather intended that during
EPID Phase II the emphasis of SIDA's support to EPID be
placed on the Co-operative Marketing Division planned to be
established in 1975/76, In support of the Minimum Package
Programme only technical assistance will, therefore, be requested
from SIDA.
Part 1 of the volume contains EPID's own internal evaluation
of its first few years of operation, Part 2 presents those
policy guidelines the project would wish to follow in its
expansion, and the proposals for assistance from SIDA to
EPID Phase II are given in Part 3.
