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Over the years, the border zone between Kenya and Ethiopia experienced increased intra ethnic conflicts, animal health, and livestock marketing bottlenecks. This led to CIFA Kenya (established in 2000) to facilitate the establishments of cross border initiatives in 2004/05. Through these initiatives, CIFA gained recognition from the Ethiopian communities and authorities and in 2005 this led to the setting up and registration of CIFA Ethiopia as a National NGO and re-registered again on April 11, 2016 with the Federal Charities and Societies Agency via certificate number 1012.

The CIFA Trust (www.cifauk.org.uk), an independent charity registered in UK, was established in 2006 to broaden CIFA’s international outreach, particularly with regard to advocacy on behalf of the marginalized pastoralists, and also to strengthen CIFA’s capacity and long term sustainability in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Our strategic position in Borana Zone and linkage to several cross border partners and sister organization – CIFA Kenya gives us a big opportunity to work on cross border related issues

One Health and Development Initiative One Health and Development Initiative (OHDI) is a global nonprofit organization advancing One Health and Sustainable Development through integrated action across human, animal, plant, and environmental health.

We recognize that the health and wellbeing of people, animals, plants, and ecosystems are deeply interconnected, and that achieving lasting impact requires holistic, collaborative, and evidence-based approaches. Guided by this understanding, OHDI promotes education, advocacy, research, and practical solutions that bridge sectors and disciplines to build healthier, more resilient, and sustainable communities.

Through our programs, research initiatives, policy engagement, technology-driven solutions, and communication platforms, we apply the principles of One Health to real-world challenges. Our work fosters collaboration, strengthens local and global capacity, and drives innovation that improves health, wellbeing, and sustainable development for all.

CHADET is a charitable organisation registered in Ethiopia (Reg. no. 0234) that works for the protection and welfare of children found under difficult circumstances. The establishment of CHADET coincided with the period when the HIV/AIDS pandemic was on its highest peak in Ethiopia. Hence, most of the projects launched by the organization during that time focused on educating the community about protection and mitigating the impact of AIDS on children and families infected and affected by the epidemic. In this regard, CHADET was able to train and deploy peer educators who were conveying educational messages for children and young persons and home care providers who were supporting individuals and families on voluntary basis. CHADET launched its first project in one of the most congested parts of the city of Addis Ababa where there are large numbers of street connected and working children, migrants and children exposed to physical and sexual exploitation. The area, which is also known as ‘Merkato’, is the largest commercial centre of the city. Expanding its operations in the country, CHADET currently implements different projects in thirteen Woredas/districts of South Wollo and South Gondar Administrative Zones in Amhara Regional State as well as in Arsi and South West Shoa Zones in Oromiya Regional State. It also implements different projects in Addis Ababa. CHADET has shown remarkable progress in terms of enhancing its capacity and addressing more and more marginalized children in different parts of the country since the time it has began operation. It has currently five field offices and three service delivery centers in the regional states and in Addis Ababa.

Vision for Ethiopia is a local development and humanitarian organization established in 2006 with registration number 0311. The organization is dedicated to transforming communities holistically by working with Children, Youths, and Women to provide compressive development, humanitarian and relief projects in Amhara, Oromiya, Tigray, Diradawa, and Addis Ababa city administration. We are deeply committed to improving society’s quality of life by fulfilling societal needs, such as Protection, Education, Health & Nutrition, WASH, Gender equality, elderly support and providing emergency support for internally displaced people and refugees in Ethiopia.

MCRC was established by Mrs. Jutta De Muynk in 2006. It was legally registered in 2010. MCRC was initiated to help the needy children going to a church school at Aware Area. However the founder though the course of her work realized that poverty and violence are the underlying causes of the problems and sufferings of the children and their mothers. And thus the mothers were included in the program.

Partnership For Pastoralists Development Association [PAPDA] Is a legally registered humanitarian, National nongovernmental organization striving to improve the livelihood of poor pastoralists and Agro pastoralist communities in Ethiopia. PAPDA was established in June 2006 by people who hail from pastoralists areas of Oromia, Somali, and Afar regional States and is re registered (No 0355) with the Agency for Civil Society Organizations.

Catholic Relief Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to serve World War II survivors in Europe. Since then, we have expanded in size to reach more than 200 million people in more than 100 countries on five continents.

For over 80 years, our mission has been to assist impoverished and disadvantaged people overseas, working in the spirit of Catholic social teaching to promote the sacredness of human life and the dignity of the human person. Although our mission is rooted in the Catholic faith, our operations serve people based solely on need, regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity. Within the United States, CRS engages Catholics to live their faith in solidarity with the poor and suffering people of the world.

WEEMA International began in 2011 as “Mudula Water,” with the goal of bringing clean water to 10,000 people living in Mudula, a rural town in southwestern Ethiopia. The results were this project were quite profound- hundreds of girls no longer had to spend countless hours every day collecting water many kilometers away and could focus on their schooling, women had more time working on their farms and caring for their families, and fewer people were getting sick from diarrheal disease.

After this initial water project, Dr. Elizabeth McGovern, WEEMA’s founder, was inspired by meetings with individuals from Mudula who identified other related community needs. Community leaders identified that, in addition to needing access to clean water, there were huge gaps in terms of access to quality education, healthcare, and economic opportunities.

In 2013, we officially changed our name from Mudula Water to WEEMA International to reflect our expanded, more holistic community-led approach. We call ourselves WEEMA because the word in a local language means wholeness and fulfillment – core values we uphold and strive for in our work and impact. WEEMA is also an acronym representing the core areas of our work: Water, Education, Empowerment, Medical Care, and Agriculture.

Shamida Ethiopia was established to give hope to the lives of vulnerable women and children through deinstitutionalisation, care, support and development programs and to give them relevance in life.

In Ethiopia social problems have been increasing at an alarming rate due to poverty, HIV/AIDS, various diseases, drought and conflict. Among other social problems the number of orphans and vulnerable children is increasing rapidly. Shamida Ethiopia is a non-profit Ethiopian NGO that is working hand in hand with other NGOs in Ethiopia to complement their efforts and advance our projects.

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