Our Partners

Donor

Norway has a long history in Ethiopia through politics, development aid and missionary work that goes back to World War II when strong ties were formed between Emperor Haile Selassie and the Norwegian royal family. In 1995 Norway signed an agreement for bilateral cooperation with Ethiopia and the embassy in Addis Ababa is currently Norway’s largest foreign station in Africa.

Sponsor

Farm Africa is an international organization working to build a resilient rural Africa where people and the environment thrive. We help farmers to increase their harvests, build their incomes and sustain natural resources, partnering with governments and the private sector to find effective ways to fight poverty.

Farm Africa reduces poverty by unleashing the ability of farmers across eastern Africa to build their incomes in an environmentally sustainable way. Since its establishment in 1985, Farm Africa has been working in eastern Africa to combat poverty by developing small-scale agriculture. Farm Africa works in five countries namely Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and DR Congo. Farm Africa has worked in Ethiopia since 1988. The first project focused on helping widows living in poverty make a living from rearing goats. To date Farm Africa has undertaken a total of 121 projects in Ethiopia.

The office now implements programmes in different parts of the country focusing on safeguarding the environment, developing agricultural expertise, and boosting business engagement. For more information, please visit our website www.farmafrica.org

Sponsor

SOS Sahel Ethiopia is a humanitarian and development entity started work in Ethiopia since 1989 as a country program of SOS Sahel International/UK. Since 2005, the organization is registered and licensed as a Local Organization and currently operating in Oromia, Sidama, South & Central Ethiopia Regional States of the country in close collaboration and partnership with relevant government offices, community institution and other civil society organizations. The organization has Head Quarter in Addis Ababa and Field Offices in the three regional states it is operating in.

SOS Sahel Ethiopia is dedicated to improve living standards of smallholder farmers and herders pastoralists through actions that enable them exercise their right, create fair access to resources and service, and reduce the inequalities and power imbalance they experience and enhance the sustainability of the fragile environment on which they depend. Its primary mandate and major operational focuses are enhancing food security, improving livelihoods, sustaining the environment, strengthening access to market, reducing vulnerability to disaster, saving lives, and influencing policy and practice.

SOS Sahel Ethiopia envisions a world without poverty. Its key mission is improving the living standards of smallholder farmers and marginalized pastoralists through better management of their environment and improved access to fair and sustainable agricultural markets.

SOS Sahel played a crucial role in the rural development of Ethiopia tackling the root causes of poverty and social injustice. Our projects have changed thousands of rural lives through an approach that integrates policy dialogue, action research and implementation of innovative field interventions. We supported and invested in smallholder farmers and herders to fight poverty though better management of their environment. Integrated watershed management, participatory forest management, usufruct procedures promoted by the organization transformed conventional, government-led natural resources management towards a community-based approach enabling local people secure their rights. Our interventions in value chains development created new income opportunities for the rural poor by strengthening their access to market. Farmers and pastoral business associations supported through our market linkages initiatives have gained sufficient technical, and management skills and institutional capacity to run viable business enterprises.

Stakeholder

PHE EC, initiated at the Integrated Development for East Africa conference in 2007 and formally established in 2008 in Ethiopia with a focus on population, health and environmental issues, has grown significantly in both size and influence over the past 15 years. Since 2008, PHE EC, together with its 99 member organizations and its international and national partners, has successfully facilitated the implementation of multi-sectoral integrated interventions in over 70 woredas (districts) in Ethiopia and has directly engaged with over 800,000 community beneficiaries across the country. As a local CSO consortium, PHE EC also plays a unique and vital role as a bridge between many diverse actors. In its ability to work in partnership with communities, CSOs, academic institutions, government organizations, private sector and the media is focusing more on a comprehensive approach to sustainable development in Ethiopia.