Funded by the U.S.
Agency for International Development (USAID) and Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Ethiopia mission, seed relief
complemented international and
national food aid, helping farm families to quickly grow crops after several seasons of erratic or failed rains in Ethiopia and the catastrophic 2015 - 16 El Niño droughts.
The new automated loan review system rolled out in May, which
complements the loan defect taxonomy, «is supposed to ensure that lenders won't be severely penalized for small errors and address the uncertainty of enforcement actions,» Kevin Stevens, director of the FHA's Home Mortgage Insurance Division, said in a speech earlier this month at a
National Council of State Housing Finance
Agencies conference in Washington.