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Beekeeping is vitally important for the livelihoods and security of local communities across the Amhara Region of Ethiopia and has been s...

Beekeeping is vitally important for the livelihoods and security of local communities across the Amhara Region of Ethiopia and has been so for decades. However, excessive pesticide application on crops has caused a decline in honey bees and other beneficial insects, forcing beekeepers to abandon their trade. Beekeepers spoke with the Bees for Development Ethiopia team during field discussions and expressed their concern, prompting Bees for Development UK and Bees for Development Ethiopia – together with colleagues from Pesticide Action Nexus Ethiopia – to conduct multiple studies into the ill-effects of pesticides on bees, and possible solutions. This assessment indicated the need to build the understanding, knowledge and skills of government extension workers and smallholder farmers in alternative crop pest management and beekeeping – so, the ‘More Bees’ Project was designed and launched. This Project aims to deliver multiple benefits for people and biodiversity, drawing on synergies between agriculture, sustainable development and ecosystem service provision. The Project entails implementation of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques at two sites in Amhara; these techniques will use fewer harmful pesticides and make use of natural insect enemies to control pest populations. This will lead to an increased population of beneficial insects, including bees, with knock-on benefits for beekeepers and smallholder farmers. The Project is funded predominantly by the Darwin Initiative, and technical support is provided by Bees for Development and Pesticide Action Network UK to partners in Ethiopia: Bees for Development Ethiopia, Pesticide Action Nexus Ethiopia and Bahir Dar University. The Project will benefit 3000 smallholder farmers, from June 2022 to 31 March 2025.

Investing in conservation actions for sustainable livelihoods’ is a reforestation project being implemented in Alehuay Kebele in the West...

Investing in conservation actions for sustainable livelihoods’ is a reforestation project being implemented in Alehuay Kebele in the West Gojjam Zone of the Amhara Region. The Project was launched by Bees for Development Ethiopia in January 2022 and will run to December 2024. The Project aims to address three core issues in this region:

Land degradation and soil erosion, caused by over-grazing and tree cutting.
Insufficient employment opportunities for marginalised groups like youths, landless women and people with disabilities.
Lack of strong community institutions and enforcement of community by-laws.

The expected outcome of the Project is to improve the resilience and capacity of 3,127 people, including 1,690 women, to adapt to climate change and reverse natural resource degradation.

The first two years of the Project saw the following achievements:

56 hectares of degraded land have been identified for restoration, 127,796 indigenous tree seedlings have been planted, dam construction is ongoing, and 28 villagers have been trained in community-based watershed management.
Training has been provided to 100 community members, including 44 women, on beekeeping as a sustainable income generation and natural resource conservation tool. 49 trainees were instructed in different types of hive construction, 89 in honey harvesting and colony management, and 90 were provided colony management support.
Six village-level savings and loan groups have been created and provided with savings kits, and 18 group leaders have been trained in financial literacy, leadership, gender equality and disability inclusion.

The Mass Youth Employment in Apiculture (MaYEA) Program is a nationwide Youth Employment Program implemented in three implementation hubs...

The Mass Youth Employment in Apiculture (MaYEA) Program is a nationwide Youth Employment Program implemented in three implementation hubs: North and Northwest Hub (Amhara, Afar, Tigray and, Benishangul Gumuz, regions), South and Southwest Hub (Oromia, Sidama, SNNPR, and Southwest, Gambella regions) and National Hub (implementing crosscutting functions across the two hubs). The implementing partners will collaborate to create a success story in the value chain through a carefully managed consortium approach that demonstrates practice and influences policy in the sector.

The MaYEA program aims to transform Ethiopia’s Apiculture industry to reach 1,860,000 young people and enable 1,050,000 unemployed young people to access wage and self-employment through skilling and access to finance. The program will engage in interventions: 400,000 new beekeepers, 350,000 existing beekeepers, and 400,000 prioritized value chains’ participants.

Goal and Outcomes

The program goal is to enable a million young people (80% women) to find dignified and fulfilling work through strengthened and expanded markets in apiculture-centered agribusiness. The program’s long-term outcomes are:

· Increasing national honey and beeswax production

· Improving honey quality to meet International and national standards

· Enhancing market-driven value addition and product diversification

· Enhancing integration of apiculture with other complementary value chains

· Improving the Enabling Environment for the youth and apiculture sector development

Theory of change

To realize a transformed and commercialized apiculture sector that provides dignified and fulfilling work opportunities for young women and men in Ethiopia, interventions must not only focus on short-term results but also on larger systemic factors that influence the sector’s growth. As a result, the program’s theory of change (ToC) recognizes the complex nature of the sector’s constraints and has designed interventions that empower individuals, communities, and systems to effect transformational change. By engaging new beekeepers, strengthening existing beekeepers, improving the product quality assurance and grading, integrating Apiculture with other value chains, and strengthening the enabling environment, we can contribute to creating a transformed apiculture sector in which young enterprise owners flourish and thrive sustainably.