Human Rights our Collective Responsibility measures. The process was participatory as the people of the areas concerned and other stakeholders, including the Nyangatom and Selamago Woredas found on the left side of the Omo River and also the people of Bacha, Dime, and Berayle who live on the left bank of the project area were consulted. 245. In the agricultural sector, the Respondent State submitted that it is implementing the Agricultural Growth Programme, which was designed to help increase agricultural productivity and market access for key crops and livestock in 83 districts, including the SNNPRS. The Respondent State submitted that both the Gibe III dam and Kuraz were borne out of a necessity to end the cycle of poverty and underdevelopment in Ethiopia and help lead the agricultural transformation in the country. 246. The Respondent State also submitted that the CDP is a water centered settlement scheme for people, livestock and crop production, which displaces no one. The Respondent State claimed that the primary reason for the CpP's existence is to boost food security and address the difficulties associated with making socioeconomic services available to people who live in highly dispersed settlement, make agricultural extension work possible, and health facilities, school, veterinary clinics, flourrnills, and water supply more accessible. The Respondent State submitted that the CDP, which is a programme started in 1997 in the Benishangul regional state and now extended to other pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, is a purely voluntary programme. 247. The Respondent State further submitted that the Government has also started the Pastoralist Communities Development Project (PCDP). The PCDP, the Respondent State submitted seeks to establish effective models of public service delivery, investment and disaster management in the arid and semi-arid Ethiopian lowlands that address pastoral communities' priority needs, improve their livelihoods, alleviate poverty and reduce their vulnerability. The Respondent State claims that the PCDP follows the principle of community demand-driven development where the beneficiaries of the project identify their own needs and contribute in cash and kind towards realizing them. And through the establishment of the Pastoralist Affairs Bureau in the SNNPRS, the Government is able to focus on issues that affect pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the state, improve their lives, address the economic and social problems that affect them, and unlock their economic potential.