The Building Resilience in Ethiopia – Technical Assistance (BRE-TA) facility supported federal, regional and sub-regional governments to strengthen their life-saving humanitarian response capability. The purpose was to reduce the effects of climatic and humanitarian shocks on vulnerable people and the economy by reducing the depth (severity) and length (duration) of a shock, thereby saving lives and protecting livelihoods.

Our work with the government focused on creating systemic and sustained improvements to the way disaster risks are managed. The support to government helped move critical reforms around the policy cycle, achieved by working on the issues the government wanted help with at their pace. The graphic below captures how we strengthened government’s capacity to prepare for and respond to climate and humanitarian shocks by preparing applied policy research, developing policy options and supporting implementation across the policy cycle.