Linkage and Integration into Development Interventions.
DCG Report 32
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Dawit Kebede and Solomon Retta
The purpose of this study is to address the challenges that HIV/AIDS and gender inequality pose to development efforts in relation to food security in Ethiopia. The study focuses on the links between gender and HIV/AIDS and food security, particularly on the coping mechanisms related to food security among men and women, suffering from HIV/AIDS.
The study considers three objectives: to raise awareness on how gender and HIV/AIDS are linked to food security; to give recommendations regarding how HIV/AIDS and gender issues can be integrated into development interventions; and to improve the mainstreaming of gender and HIV/AIDS issues in development interventions in the study area.
The areas under study are Dahana and Kiltawlallo Woreda. These areas (woreda’s) have been subjected to frequent episodes of drought through the last decades, leading to food insecurity. The increasing population has increased the pressure on the available land; besides, the land has been degraded and has lost its fertility, producing very low crop yields, not enough to feed the family for the whole season. This has left the people dependant on food aid for the last years.
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