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Digital Green
The New Alliance ICT Extension Challenge Fund is a multi-donor fund managed by USAID, that receives financial support from USAID, UK DFID, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and IFAD to improve agricultural productivity among targeted food crops by smallholder farmers in 6 selected countries in Africa, through the use of Information and Communications Technology…
Read MoreIn this project Digital Green and its consortium partners, Awaaz.De, Dimagi, and Farm Radio International (FRI), were increasing the Ethiopian public extension system’s reach and effectiveness by institutionalizing its use of ICT-enabled approaches at national, regional, zonal, district and local levels. The consortium combined locally-produced video, radio, interactive voice response (IVR) and human-mediated facilitation to…
Read MoreFRI Ethiopia is fostering partnerships with key partners in the public, private and non-profit sector, including the Ethiopian government. We offer an unprecedented means to reach farmers at the field level, achieving scale which is only possible thanks to the ubiquity of radio sets in rural areas as well as our unique approach to radio…
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