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Livelihood Project Agreement
Livelihood Project Agreement
FUNDING AGREEMENT
Between
And
106-2021
Article 1. Preamble
This Funding Agreement is made this October 6, 2021, between Muslim Aid USA (hereafter referred to as
MAUSA), as represented by Executive Director of MAUSA, And Mizan Peace and Development
Association (hereafter referred to as Mizan)
Whereas Muslim Aid USA is a registered 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States
located at 1616 International Drive Suite 600 McLean, VA 22102, with a Mission “Meeting the needs of
humanity through passion and compassion driven by our faith”. And
Where Mizan Peace and Development Association is an indigenous, nonprofit, and non-governmental
organization. It is registered by the Ethiopian Civil Society Agency with bearing certificate no. 4502 in
October 2019. The main objective of the association is to create a capable society that can able to solve
endogenous problems and challenges. Moreover, the association adds more hands to the effort of
government in enhancing development and peace initiatives through mobilizing resources. The
association plans to work on broad ranges of activities such as social, economic, and cultural issues Now,
therefore, the parties to this Funding Agreement hereby agree as follows:
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Muslim Aid USA, 1616 International Drive Suite 600 McLean, VA 22102T: (+1) 866-606-2827
Article 2. Subject Matter of the Contract
2.1 MAUSA shall make a financial contribution to Mizan Peace and Development Association to the
amount of $106,503.69 in support of the projects titled; (Drilling and Construction of Deep water well
project) undertaken by Mizan Peace and Development Association
2.2 Program details and a budget breakdown can be found in the approved Project Proposal Submission
Form in Annex 1.
3.1 MAUSA shall contribute to Mizan Peace and Development Association for purposes of implementing
the project mentioned under Article 2 in the period, starting October 10, 2021, ending on February
28,2022
3.2 Expenditure made by Mizan Peace and Development Association outside the specified
implementation period is not liable for subsidy from MAUSA.
70% of the total amount equal to $74,552.58 will be paid upon singing of this agreement on the basis
of the project proposal form submitted by Mizan (Annex 1)
30% of the total amount equal to $31,951.11 upon submitting the completion report
Payment will be made by MAUSA as transfers to the following account held by Mizan Peace and
Development Association
Mizan Peace and Development Association
Account Number: 1000357848257
Bank Name: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
Branch Address: Somali Tera, Gambia Street, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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4.1 Mizan Peace and Development Association undertakes to make use of the grant in keeping with the
project application and solely earmarked for implementation of the project referred to under Article 2
of the contract and corresponding to the financial budget outlined in the approved Project Proposal
Submission Form (Annex 1). In doing so, care must also be taken to ensure that the funds are used in
an economic and thrifty way.
Article 5. Termination
5.1 Each of the contracting parties shall be entitled to terminate the contract with 10 business days
advance notice. Termination of contract must be made in writing.
5.2 If one of the contracting partners in accordance with article 5.1 terminates the contract without notice,
the grant awarded in accordance with Article 4 shall be immediately repayable.
Article 6. Liability
6.1 Mizan Peace and Development Association will monitor implementation of the project through its
partner in Ethiopia
6.2 Mizan Peace and Development Association shall exempt MAUSA from all liability with respect to
third parties.
7.1 Mizan Peace and Development Association shall be obliged in an appropriate manner to acknowledge
the support received from MAUSA and other funding partners. Please see Muslim Aid Distribution Image
guidelines presented in ANNEX 3
7.2 Mizan Peace and Development Association agrees to give MAUSA access to all media used to
document, including but not limited to pictures, videos and testimonials of the beneficiaries
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Article 8. Reporting
8.1.1 Mizan Peace and Development Association undertakes to submit to MAUS the final narrative report
by March 30, 2022, the final report is to be accompanied by professional grade photographs and videos.
The photographs and videos should not be edited, and should be submitted as shot. MAUSA will compile
this material into marketing collateral. Templet is attach ANNEX 2
8.2.1 Detailed information must be provided as to the use made of the funds by Mizan Peace and
Development Association. Attention must be paid to the principles of generally accepted accounting
principles.
8.2.2 Mizan Peace and Development Association undertakes to submit to MAUSA a final financial report
on March 30,2022
9.1 MAUSA shall have the right to check the status and results of the implementation of the project at any
time. This right shall also extend explicitly to local field visits.
9.2 Mizan Peace and Development Association shall be obliged, at the request of MAUSA, to make the
required project documentation available.
Article 10. Amendments
10.1 The present Funding Agreement may be amended or revised by mutual agreement of the parties. Any
changes must be in writing.
10.2 The amended or revised clauses shall become effective from the date of their adoption.
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All official communication related to this Funding Agreement shall be delivered to the offices indicated
hereunder:
MAUSA Nadera Shibly
1616 International Drive Suite 600 McLean,
VA 22102
(703) 220-2341
shiblyna@muslimaidusa.org
Mizan Peace and Development Association: Ahmed Jemal/Mezid Nasir
Vice President, Executive Committee
Wolkite, Ethiopia, Jimma Street,
155 KMs away from the capital Addis Ababa
Ahmedjemal2014@gmail.com
+251911015230/+251913757852
Both Parties agree that in the event of any controversy or dispute arising of or in connection with the
implementation of this present agreement, every effort will be made to amicably reach a settlement by
direct negotiation. Any dispute, controversy or claim between the parties not settled amicably may be
referred by either Party to arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in accordance with its
Optional Rules for Arbitration between International Organizations and Private Parties in force on the date
of this Agreement. The appointing authority shall be the Secretary General of the Permanent Court of
Arbitration. These provisions shall be in lieu of any other procedure for the settlement of disputes between
the Parties.
Any party that is unable to perform any obligation hereunder due to an event of Force Majeure shall be
excused from such performance to the extent and for the duration of such event; provided, however that
the affected party provides Notice within ten (10) days to the other party of the occurrence and effect of
such event and makes reasonable efforts to overcome the adverse effects of the event and resume the
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performance of its affected obligations as soon as reasonably practical. For majeure means, with respect to
any party, any act, circumstance, or event which:
(a) Is beyond the reasonable control of, and does not result from any fault or negligence of, the party;
(b) If foreseeable could not have been avoided by the exercise of reasonable efforts; and
(c) Renders the party unable to perform or otherwise comply with its obligation under this Funding Agreement.
14.1 This Funding Agreement contains the entire financial agreement of the parties and cancels and
supersedes any previous understanding or agreement related to the project, whether written or oral.
14.2 All changes or modifications to this Funding Agreement must be agreed in writing between the
parties.
16.1 The parties shall, at their expense and at all times, comply with all laws, rules, regulations, decrees or
official government orders that may, now or in the future, become applicable to its business, equipment,
or personnel. Within the framework of this Agreement, neither parties shall not engage, either directly or
indirectly, in activities that would violate any law, rule, regulation or official order, the occurrence of
which shall constitute a violation of this Agreement. If either party should engage in activities that would
violate any law, rule, regulation or official order, the other party may terminate this Agreement forthwith.
16.2 The present Agreement shall come into force on the date of its signature by both Parties and shall
expire as soon as all mutual obligations are fulfilled.
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16.3 Neither Party is or shall be engaged in any practice inconsistent with the rights set forth in the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, including Article 32 thereof, which requires that a child shall be
protected from performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or interfere with the child’s education,
or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.
16.4 Both Parties shall take all appropriate measures to prevent sexual exploitation or abuse of anyone by
its employees or any other persons engaged and controlled by it to perform any services under this
Agreement. For these purposes, sexual activity with any person less than eighteen years of age, regardless
of any laws relating to consent, shall constitute the sexual exploitation and abuse of such person. In
addition, both Parties shall refrain from, and shall take all reasonable and appropriate measures to prohibit
its employees or other persons engaged and controlled by it from exchanging any money, goods, services,
or other things of value, for sexual favors or activities, or from engaging any sexual activities that are
exploitive or degrading to any person. Neither Party shall apply the foregoing standard relating to age in
any case in which either Party’s personnel or any other person who may be engaged by either Party to
perform any services under the Agreement is married to the person less than the age of eighteen years
with whom sexual activity has occurred and in which such marriage is recognized as valid under the laws
of the country of citizenship of such Party’s personnel or such other person who may be engaged by either
Party to perform any services under the Agreement.
16.5 Neither Party nor any of its affiliated entities (if any) is or shall be engaged in the sale or manufacture
of anti-personnel mines or components utilized in the manufacture of anti-personnel mines.
16.6 Both parties to this agreement shall conduct themselves in conformity with the highest ethical
principles and standards of conduct and in a manner that at all times protects the interests of the other
parties.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have on behalf of the Parties
hereto signed the present Funding Agreement at the place and on the day below written.
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Executive
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Project Proposal
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SECTION 1: APPLICANT ORGANIZATION
Office Address
Wolkite, Ethiopia, Jimma Street, 155 KMs away from the capital
Addis Ababa
Country ETHIOPIA
Organization Website -
2.3 Project Duration: Start Date: October 10, 2021 End Date: February 28, 2022
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• To increase the incomes of women from small scale rearing
• To increased empowerment of women, which is perceived as the critical link that
translates income gains from increased production to a greater role for women in goat
and sheep rearing and improved well-being and status within the household and
community.
• To improved nutrition and health outcomes for women and their children,
• To reduce poverty in the community by improving women’s livelihood.
2.6 Expected Results:
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characterized by low production and productivity and is highly vulnerable to climate change.
Private sector participation remains weak. Rural development at the core of Ethiopia food
security and economic growth strategies. Agriculture is a livelihood source for about 86 percent
of rural women and men and provides employment for about 1.3 billion smallholder farmers
and landless workers. Women farmers perform up to 75 percent of farm labor, representing 70
percent of household food production in Ethiopia but hold only 18.7 percent of agricultural land
and head 20.1 percent of rural households. Their farms are smaller than men’s (0.9 Ha in
comparison to 1.03 Ha) and produce 35 percent less per hectare due to lower levels of input
use and less access to extension services. Only about 76 percent of rural women have control
over crop, land and livestock compared to over 90 percent of men, but even then, ownership
and decision making remains in the control of men, implying that economic shocks may have a
greater impact on women, who have diminished control over resources (Population Council,
2010). As women also perform laborious household chores, including looking for water and
firewood, they are more exposed to food insecurity as these might take them away from their
productive activities for long hours at a time.
Targeted groups:
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Who are able to fence the breeding land
160 poor rural women living below the poverty line and their household family members
(approx. 800 individuals) constitute the primary target group. The Programme will have a
special focus on women who are organised in groups. The 160 women would be made up of 10
women from each of the 16 Kebeles (smallest administrative units) in 16 woredas (districts) in
the targeted zone (Guraghe) to raise at least 50 sheep/goats each group. The intensity of
poverty varies at the household level depending on land size, its quality and productivity,
climate conditions and production technologies which affects men and women differently.
Most rural households have small land holdings of less than one hectare on average.
Agriculture is dominated by a low input, low output rain fed farming system, which increases
the vulnerability of rural households to the vagaries of nature. Frequent droughts and crop
failures can easily result in wide spread food shortages, household food insecurity and famine.
Because women lack strong asset base, they are often worse affected by natural and human
made calamities.
1) Investing in agriculture sector gender sensitive policy investment and strategic frameworks by
providing capacity building for agriculture key stakeholders on gender analysis and gender
mainstreaming tools throughout the planning, budgeting and monitoring stages. The government of
Ethiopia has demonstrated commitment by supporting the creation of appropriate policy conditions that
once in place will make work the investment of the different components of the Programme and in turn
to ensure the sustainability of the expected results. As the project takes hold, rapid benefits from
improving low income and marginalized rural women´s access and control overs assets and providing
agricultural services accrue to help increase the sector's productivity and competitiveness, and inclusive
economic growth.
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individual, community and institutional capabilities. Human and institutional development capacity
interventions encompass: rural women livestock production, nutritional habits, food storage,
entrepreneurship skills and sustainable agriculture techniques, as well as, management and leadership
skills and awareness on existing legal frameworks on family law and economic rights; financial and non-
financial service providers capacity to tailor their products to women needs deliver for women.
Community capacity to get acquainted and protect women’s and girls’ ‘rights using the successful change
behavior methodology ¨community conversations¨ that has proved to be easily owned and taken up by
communities once development assistance programmes withdraw from a targeted area,
3) Communities (ex.: groups of women that may be formed as unions) and institutions (ex.:
cooperatives) are actively involved in the planning and implementation of some of the components of
the Programme(ex.: building sheep/goat shelter and fencing the rented or owned land), which helps to
ensure ownership and the relevance of the interventions to the specific context.
4) Environmental sustainability
Regarding environmental sustainability, the project will be using Ethiopia’s environmental sustainability
strategy, which revolves around ensuring community led environmental protection and sustainable use
of natural resources. This way, women beneficiaries will work in greater harmony with the environment
as they carry out their goat/sheep breeding work. The initiatives will also include training women to
prevent environmental pollution, degradation and introducing technologies to rural women on water
harvesting, reforestation, composting, improved use of fertilizers, and diversification of fuels away from
reliance on firewood and charcoal. In terms of sustainability of results, the project will intervene at
different levels and has started by securing political buy-in through interventions aligned with national
policy priorities, and strong leadership from the government coordinating agency, the district Finance
and Economic Development office. Further, the joint programme will undertake a series of tailor-made
capacity building trainings and provide tool for service providers to deliver for women. The joint
programme, by demonstrating concrete results, can then be used to influence policy level mechanisms
to ensure gender equality in guidelines, products and interventions to support rural women’s access and
control. Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment at the core of the project. The programme is
focused on promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women. The design focuses on
addressing gender inequalities that deny women equal opportunities as men. It seeks to provide rural
women with the skills and to improve their social and economic standing, both by helping to address the
poverty of rural women and to strengthen women’s voices within their families, communities and rural
institutions. To support these changes on a sustainable basis, the Joint Programme will intervene at the
individual, community and institutional level. Women’s groups (in this project 10 women in each group)
are the core structure at the community level on which substantive activities are added (life and
entrepreneurship skills, sustainable agriculture techniques, leadership and management skills), and form
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the foundation of community-based capacity building. In this regard, Community Conversations (CC), a
government supported and tested evidence-based social behavior change strategy, with a large segment
of the targeted population, will be used as an important strategy to build an enabling environment for
girls and women. Improving the status of women rests in part, on changing the norms and attitudes of
the entire community, including husbands, fathers, and adolescent boys. The Joint Programme also
incorporates a thorough analysis on rural women ‘s constraints in translating their agricultural/pastoral
undertakings into economic empowerment and poverty reduction due to: discriminatory customary laws
and practices that favour men’s over women’s access to land and other productive resources; and lack of
control in decision-making processes (e.g. in the intra-household decision-making on income
expenditures). While the Joint Programme recognizes that some of these forms of discrimination are in
principle addressed by national policies and legislation, in practice, new policies and new or revised laws
have proven hard to enforce, with little tangible impact on women in rural areas. Translating women’s
agricultural/pastoral undertakings into economic empowerment requires transforming gender relations
at all levels – so that women are better represented and take part in the decisions which impact their
lives and livelihoods.
Participatory internal monitoring and evaluation of the project will be applied to ensure the
success of the project and to modify it to suit to the needs of the community. Day-to-day follow
up of the project activities will be undertaken by the assigned supervisors and experts.
Monitoring of the project will be undertaken focusing on the actual implementations. However,
evaluation of the project will be carried out by external bodies involving the beneficiaries to
assess the effectiveness and its impacts on the women and community. Moreover, we will
establish a committee of comprise from local government body, community representative and
Mizan representative to follow up the project on monthly basis. Their recommendation and
suggestions are considered in the process of implementation of the project.
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would be to ensure a balanced approach to agriculture sector development, in particular that
the important and strategic role of women is recognized and that appropriate gender-sensitive
approaches are promoted. women-headed smallholder, pastoral and agro-pastoral households.
The MoA implements the PIF through a number of flagship programs, including: The
Agricultural Growth, Sustainable Land Management, and Productive Safety Net/ Household
Asset Building programmes. In order to ensure gender equality is addressed, each flagship
programme has adopted gender mainstreaming approaches that are supported by guidelines,
training and in some cases the recruitment of gender officers at federal and regional levels. In
addition, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), which requires beneficiaries, men and
women, to participate in public works, has identified specific and detailed work norms for
women. The Woman’s Affairs Directorate of MoA has also assigned one expert to each flagship
programme but their engagement appears to have been ad-hoc. The project will be building on
the various national/government mechanisms to strengthen and sustain gender mainstreaming
within the agricultural sector, clearly the number one priority of government of Ethiopia, by
providing the sector with gender analytical tools and good practices on improving the lives of
poor rural women.
• The issue of visibility is also a question of transparency, where the local partners and
stakeholders of the projects have the right to be informed about funding sources which
make the projects possible. In this process, our funding partner MAUSA will be
mainstreamed in our formal and informal communications with government body as
well as beneficiary.
• Raise awareness of how the donor and the partner work together to support the funded
will be emphasized in different organized events and training sessions, monitoring and
evaluation programs.
• The logo of the donor will be advertised in periodic government reports and agreement
documents that emphasize partnership.
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• The logo MAUSA will be bannered in sheep/goat breeding area
• Tools for visibility and communication activities: like audio visual productions, press
releases, press conferences, Press visits, brochures, billboards banners and web sites,
Promotional items, public events and visits, Photographs, and Information campaigns.
Will be used to magnify donor visibility.
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C. PROJECT SUPPORT: (Enter any Administration cost, & travel expenses, utilities and other in-direct cost.)
Per
1 Oil and fuel expense 10,000 12 120,000 120,000 120,000
month
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