2. Once the idea is articulated and the PIW is submitted to the RDO, the RDO staff will work with the project originator and Content Team to prepare the Proposal Idea in Development form (PID). This form succinctly details major project elements. Content Team formed to assist the project originator with grant development, will meet to, discuss the originatorâs idea and complete the Project Idea Worksheet (PIW). The project originator will review and discuss the components of the worksheet with his/her supervisor and obtain their supervisorâs signature.
Its ancient capital, also called Aksum, was in northern Ethiopia. The Kingdom used the name Ethiopia as early as the 4th century. It is also the alleged resting place of the Ark of the Covenant and the purported home of the Queen of Sheba.overing parts of what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea, Aksum was deeply involved in the trade network between India and the Mediterranean (Rome, later Byzantium), exporting ivory, tortoise shell, gold and emeralds, and importing silk and spices.
The subsequent Aksumite empire, based at Axum (Aksum) from around the second century BC, appears to have been a Semitic Jewish kingdom that was formed at Axum by Jewish settlers who were escaping from Elephantine in Egypt after their temple was destroyed.