Max Foundation

Max is a Netherlands-based NGO, founded in 2005, which has reached over 2 million people to date with nutrition, clean water, adequate sanitation services, and safe motherhood support. It aims at full coverage, while targeting hard to reach areas and vulnerable groups such as the poorest (pregnant) women and children, with Programmes in Bangladesh and Nepal. Max has developed the evidence-based Max Healthy Village approach with a huge impact on child health. Max has demonstrated effective community strengthening, institutional embedding and sustainable market models, using a business-driven approach and involving local entrepreneurs. Max brings expertise in integrated WASH and nutrition programming, Baby WASH, sanitation marketing and entrepreneurial models to scale up supply and demand for improved sanitation.  In 2020 Max has registered and established an office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Plan International

Plan International Nederland is a Member of Plan International, an independent development and humanitarian organisation working in 51 countries; one of the world's largest organisations working for children's rights and gender equality, and WASH. In 2020 Plan reached 26.9 million girls and 24.1 million boys. Some Plan offices, including the Netherlands and Ethiopia, also have nutrition and food security experience. Plan will add value through a gender transformative approach; expertise with implementing CLTS; and Multiple Use of Water systems (MUS) for improved food and nutrition security in Ethiopia. Between 2010 and 2018, Plan International Ethiopia reached 2.8 million people with WASH and Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) services.

Healthy village Programme (HVP)

Consortium of Max Foundation and Plan International Ethiopia have developed an innovative five-year (2020 – 2025) integrated Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), food and nutrition security programme called the ‘Healthy Village Programme’ (HVP) to reduce stunting and water- and faecal-borne diseases in a sustainable manner, jointly with the Government of Ethiopia. The Programme aims to reach approximately 400,000 people, who are the most vulnerable or do not yet have sufficient access to clean water and sanitation, are food insecure and/or have poor nutritional status.

The Healthy Village Programme (HVP) is being implemented in three Seqota Declaration woredas in Amhara region, Shebel Berenta, Goncha Siso Enessie and Enebssie Sar Midir woredas in East Gojjam Zone. As one of the cross-cutting issues which is climate change resilience of the HVP, it envisages to assess and analyse the Climate change vulnerability and resilience (CVR) assessment in the above-mentioned areas.

Objectives:

• The CRV assessment will analyse climate risks that could affect the programme from current climate conditions and trends for the agriculture, health, gender, and water sectors, as well as more long-term projections.
• It analyses and assesses the IWRM and hydrogeological review along with the CVR of those given localities.
• The study is also to propose the resilience and adaptation mechanisms as to be part of activity-output- outcome level implementation in the aforementioned sectors.
• It will also provide the basis for guiding subsequent actions, which will ensure that the program is carried out taking into account any climate-related risks and adaptation needs and options. These suggested actions should be clearly detailed in the report in the form of an action plan, which also highlights the trade-offs, risks, expected costs and expected impact where relevant.