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African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF)
The African Medical Research Foundation (AMREF) Canada is an international, not-for-profit, non-governmental health developmental organization with over 50 years of experience in Africa (1957-2007). AMREF has 18 partner offices in North America, Western Europe and Africa that work together to assist health development in Africa. It is the only international health development organization with its headquarters in Africa, in Nairobi, Kenya. It has programme offices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Southern Sudan, South Africa and Uganda.
AMREF in Ethiopia programmes target communities who are vulnerable to poor health, including women and children, youths, urban poor, low paid workers in the industrial areas, pastoralists and other underserved communities. Our projects focus on seeking lasting solutions to the prevailing health challenges: HIV/AIDS, malaria, blindness due to trachoma, safe water and basic sanitation and maternal health. AMREF's approach is guided by three strategic approaches - community partnering, capacity building and health systems research for policy and practice influencing.
AMREF in Ethiopia partners with communities to create empowered people who can demand better health services and be part of sustainable solutions to their own health problems. In relation to this, our research findings ensure we learn from what we do and have evidence to advocate and or influence better policy and practices that has a positive impact on the interface between communities and the health system.
Website: http://canada.amref.org
Care International in Ethiopia
CARE is an international non-profit, non-sectarian development organization founded in 1945 to assist in the post-war reconstruction of Europe. CARE International in Ethiopia started operation in Ethiopia in 1984 to respond to the 1984/85 drought and famine up on the invitation of the then Ethiopian Government to operate in West Hararghe, East Shoa and Borana Zones of the Oromiya Regional State. Since 1984, CARE Ethiopia has played a key role in Ethiopia's development in addressing the root causes of poverty and has earned a reputation for responsible and accountable program delivery.
CARE Ethiopia's 5 years (2007-2012) Strategy focuses on facilitating women's empowerment and human rights attainment, anchored by a unifying theme of reducing the grinding poverty that relentlessly crushes Ethiopian people. All CARE's efforts strive to empower people to overcome poverty and to promote social justice working in alliance with key development partners.
CARE Ethiopia supports ongoing efforts to strengthen good governance and policy implementation in areas (thematic and geographical), in the context of the Plan for Accelerated and Sustainable Development to End Poverty (PASDEP);Strives to be an organisation that applies its learning and impact, and commits itself to diverse national leadership at all levels, and competence in relation to CARE's evolving role; Focuses on rights and assets of women and girls in its program interventions, with particular focus on asset creation, protection and promotion; Works with its partners and facilitates processes of capacity building of support structures so that sustainable benefits and impacts are achieved.
CARE operates in the areas of Livelihood & Food Security, Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH), HIV & AIDS, Education, Governance, Water/Sanitation/Hygiene, & Emergency Preparedness and Response. CARE Ethiopia has 8 field offices in Oromiya, Amhara and Afar Regions and Dire Dawa Provisional Administration and Addis Ababa both in urban and rural areas.
Website: http://www.care.org, http://www.care.org.et
Christian Children's Fund of Canada
For over 20 years Christian Children's Fund of Canada (CCFC), has had the privilege of serving to help break the cycle of extreme poverty and replace it with a cycle of self-reliance for children, families and communities of all faiths in Ethiopia.
CCFC is a child-centered international development organization that was established in Canada in 1961. Since then our extensive experience has allowed us to address the root causes of poverty. Currently, in Ethiopia we have over 11, 000 children enrolled in 16 programs being run by 11 local partners.
We focus on five program community development sectors that bring an end to extreme poverty and the needless loss of life: Education, Health and Nutrition, Water and Sanitation, Micro-Enterprise Development, and Institutional and Organizational Strengthening.
Website: http://www.ccfcanada.ca
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Established in 1983, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a Canadian-based Christian organization that helps provide food and development assistance to people in need on behalf of our 13 Canadian church members.
Today, Canadian Foodgrains Bank ranks among the largest private food aid providers in the world. Donations made by Canadians have helped Canadian Foodgrains Bank and its members provide over 944,000 metric tonnes of food to people who are hungry throughout the world.
Website: http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca
CHF
CHF is a non-profit organization dedicated to enabling poor rural communities in developing countries to attain sustainable livelihoods. CHF is a pragmatic, non-sectarian, and results-oriented organization.
Headquartered in Ottawa with field offices in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia, CHF has more than 45 years of experience designing and implementing over 800 projects in close to 40 developing countries.
Poverty reduction is the principal focus of CHF's work and participatory and community-led development is the engine of our programming. Working primarily in rural communities, CHF engages local organizations and individuals as partners in development, supporting them to achieve locally-defined results. CHF's development practice is grounded in two core approaches: the sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) and organizational capacity building.
In Ethiopia, CHF is currently implementing the Partnership for Food Security project in partnership with ORDA (Organization for Rehabilitation and Development Amhara). The project aims to achieve food security and sustainable livelihoods for 42,000 beneficiaries in Bati Woreda. CHF is also coordinating a country-wide study entitled Ethiopia: The Path to Self-Resiliency, which aims to provide insights on how best to promote self-resiliency for the chronically food insecure at both household and community levels
Website: http://www.chf-partners.ca
Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief
CPAR-E is a Canadian international voluntary organization founded by a group of Canadian Physicians in 1984/85. It started operation in Ethiopia during the 1984/85 famine. CPAR-E has implemented various development projects in two project sites, located in Oromia and Benishangul/Gumuz regions.
CPAR-E works in partnership with government line departments, non-governmental organizations and local communities. Its programs include health, water (potable water and small-scale irrigation), agriculture, natural resources management, environment, agriculture, education, saving and credit and rural development with the aim of providing long-term benefits for the low income and disadvantaged people. The programs are community-based and aim to achieve self-reliance. During major disasters, CPAR-E also provides for basic needs. Work has recently begun in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and advocacy on Good Governance.
Website: http://www.cpar.ca
Food for the Hungry International/Ethiopia (FH/E)
Food for the Hungry International/Ethiopia (FH/E) is a Christian relief and development humanitarian organization whose international headquarters is located in Phoenix, USA with support offices in six countries, including Canada (CFH).
The worldwide goal of FH is to reduce hunger and poverty with a focus on increasing food security via increased agricultural production, and improved health and nutrition. Its twenty years (1984-2006) of operation in several intervention areas throughout Ethiopia has given FH/E a wealth of knowledge to formulate and implement sustainable grassroots development projects.
FH/E is currently working in the Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, Oromiya, SNNPR, and Somali regional states of Ethiopia.
Website: http://www.FHCanada.org, http://www.fh.org
Handicap International
Handicap International is an international organization specialized in the field of disability. It is a non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and non-profit making organization. It works alongside people with disabilities, whatever the context, offering them assistance and supporting them in their efforts to become self-reliant. Since its creation 27 years ago, the organization has set up programs in approximately 60 countries and intervened in many emergency situations. It has a network of eight national associations (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, UK, and U.S.A) which provide human and financial resources, manage projects and raise awareness of Handicap International's actions and campaigns.
Handicap International (HI) has been present in Ethiopia since 1986. For twelve years, it provided physical rehabilitation services for Somali and Sudanese refugees and Ethiopian local communities living around Jijiga and Gambella and for several years implemented community based rehabilitation programs to other regions of the country. As a continuation of activities in this sector, HI set up physical rehabilitation units in 11 hospitals, in 5 regions together with its local NGO partners.
HI had opportunity to diversify its intervention based on immediate needs and its operational capacities: mine risk education for 90,000 Somali refugees, returnees and Ethiopian surrounding population in Somali region (1998-2001); support to local associations to eradicate elephantiasis disease in Walayta Sodo and surrounding zones (2001-2003); support to pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the zone of Shinile in improving water access and livestock conservation (2002-2006).
In order to complement our actions, capacity building activities and awareness raising programs were developed: setting up of Disability Awareness Clubs for the conduction of sensitization campaigns on disability and reduce stigma in and around schools (1994-1996), financial and technical support to 11 local associations of persons with disabilities in Addis Ababa to provide better services for their members (1999-2004), awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS for people with hearing impairments in Addis Ababa (2001-2002), raising awareness and combat sexual violence against persons with disabilities through legal rights promotion in Yeka district, in Addis Ababa (2006-2008).
Website: http://www.handicap-international.org/
HOPE International Development Agency
HOPE's mandate is to provide alternative technological and educational support to people in developing countries where environmental, economic, and/or social circumstances have interfered with the ability of local communities to sustain themselves by using traditional methods. Every project we do is initiated by requests from local representatives.
HOPE International Development Agency exists to extend compassion to the neglected poor.
HOPE has been working on different projects in Ethiopia since the early 80's. We currently work on an integrated health and sanitation project in Derashe Special Woreda in the SNNP Regional State, run an income generation project in the same area as well as funding an HIV/AIDS orphans project in Addis Ababa and Self-Help group project in Oromia.
Website: http://www.hope-international.com
International Development Enterprises (IDE)
IDE is an international non-profit organization which has the mission to create income opportunities for poor rural households. IDE believes that the way to reduce poverty and create wealth is to help smallholder farmers use their own resources (land, water, labor) to earn profit. We focus on disruptive innovation in technologies, affordability, or value addition to unleash human potential and change the status quo for the betterment of all. With small farmers comprising 70 percent of the world's 2 billion poor people, business as usual is not enough. Fresh, creative thinking on product and process design is required to transform rural livelihoods.
IDE's unique approach is focused on several components. First, we design, develop, and disseminate affordable, value-rich micro-irrigation technologies (MITs) that allow smallholder farmers to make a transition from rain-fed subsistence agriculture to irrigated commercial farming. Concurrently, IDE focuses on developing and supporting a private input supply chain to ensure that smallholder farmers have sustainable access to MITs, seeds, and fertilizer. IDE also provides agricultural extension training and support services to help farmers adopt improved farming practices. Finally, we facilitate smallholder farmers' access to output markets where they sell their goods.
Established in July 2007, IDE Ethiopia is one of IDE's newest country programs. We are working to achieve IDE's mission through a wide variety of activities in Oromia, Amhara, and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional States. Please visit our website for more information about the IDE Ethiopia country program.
Website: http://www.ide-ethiopia.org
Imagine 1 Day International Organization
Imagine 1 Day International Organization (imagine1day) is a nonaligned, nonprofit international development organization whose mission is investing in cutting edge self generating primary education in Ethiopia. It was established in 2005 in Vancouver, Canada and has been operating in Ethiopia since December 2007.
imagine1day focuses its efforts on addressing the Four Pillars of Education: Access, Efficiency, Equity and Quality. Without addressing each component, universal access to quality primary education cannot be achieved. imagine1day knows that simply enrolling children in school is not the answer to a sustainable future for a community. imagine1day also knows that a child's ability to attend school is linked to the poverty level of the community while reciprocally poverty is linked to a lack of education. Therefore, program activities are designed to create a sustainable livelihood for all while increasing access to quality education. Through our work children move out of open air make-shift classrooms and proudly take their seats in newly constructed schools made of locally sourced stones, cement and other materials. In contrast to the dirt ground and rocks to sit and balance their exercise books on, every child is provided a desk to call their own. Girls and boys enjoy privacy and hygiene in their new eight stall latrine and a clean, sustainable water point hydrates and nourishes the children as well as supplies irrigation to fruit trees and small gardens that are planted to generate income for the school. Fun and interaction is elevated in the classroom as teachers are trained and developed in student-centered approaches to learning and as children explore their new educational and recreational materials.
imagine1day realized that there was a need for an organization with a difference - one that connects people in donor countries to the issues and the solutions in developing countries. imagine1day's innovative web-based fundraising model inspires donors with our promise that 100% of investments fund the projects of their choice. No administration fees are kept. Combining the concepts of a gift registry and an interactive website, imagine1day created a system where donors could choose specific investments such as the roof of a classroom, the water system, or the desks and blackboards. Our model engages our investors on a personal level. It reduces overhead and allows for direct tracking and detailed multi-media reporting that offers complete accountability and transparency.
Currently, imagine1day is working with 30 communities in the Hinatlo Waejirat Woreda of the Tigray region.
Website: http://www.imagine1day.org
Lutheran World Federation
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is a global communion of Lutheran churches, founded in Lund, Sweden, in 1947. The LWF now has 140 member churches in 78 countries representing over 66 million of the world's 70 million Lutherans. The LWF secretariat is located in the Ecumenical center in Geneva. The LWF acts on behalf of its member churches. Central to the LWF's task is to aid persons and churches in many different political, socio-economic, cultural and religious contexts, to strive in faith for a strong evangelical witness and for the realization of sustainable life, justice, peace and the preservation of creation.
At the request of the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) to assist famine-affected people in Gojam, LWF's department for world service (DWS) had a temporary office in Ethiopia from early1971. As a result of another request from EECMY, DWS again opened an office in October 1973. LWF/DWS have been implementing joint LWF/EECMY projects ever since.
Our areas of involvement are: Integrated Community Development Projects, Food Security Water Projects, Soil and Water Conservation Projects and HIV/AIDS Prevention Projects. Our vision is to see people of the world living in just societies in peace and dignity, united in diversity and empowered to achieve their universal rights, to meet basic needs and quality of life.
Website: http://www.lutheranworld.org
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA)
Creating business solutions to poverty
For more than 50 years, MEDA has been designing and implementing innovative and effective market-driven economic development programs that improve the livelihoods of millions of people living in poverty around the world.
Founded by a small group of service-oriented business people, MEDA has grown to become a large, dynamic international organization comprised of thousands of members and supporters across North America and Europe.
MEDA believes its work is not done until it is proven to be sustainable, replicable, scalable and measurable.
We are a recognized leader for establishing best practices in financial services, investment fund development, market development and solving poverty by responding to each population's unique needs. MEDA's competitive edge is to solve issues of poverty through business solutions that integrate all three of our areas of strength.
Our professional, committed staff have grassroots experience, a business orientation and the ability to work at large-scale development issues.
Website: http://www.meda.org/web/
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) began in 1920 as a relief organization to help Mennonites in Russia during a famine. MCC's programs expanded greatly after WWII to provide relief, and later development, assistance in Europe and then later in other parts of the world. Today MCC continues to work in relief and development but also works in peace and justice (which includes advocacy), health and education around the world.
MCC was invited to Ethiopia after WWII by the Emperor Haile Selassie to do mostly relief and development work. MCC had a short 2 year presence at that time (Mennonite missionaries, separate from MCC, continued the development work over the next couple of decades as well as nurturing a new church which eventually became Meserete Kristos Church [MKC]). MCC was invited back to Ethiopia in 1976 by MKC and has maintained a continuous presence since then.
Today MCC acts as a funding agency to our 12 partners and 25 programs. Meserete Kristos Church is the main partner with programs in development, HIV/AIDS, education, peace and women's ministry. MCC also partners with Canadian Food Grains Bank (CFGB) in 3 large food security projects, one in the south near Awassa, one in the north near Debre Markos and one in the city of Addis Ababa, an urban food security project.
Website: http://mcc.org/
Oxfam Canda
Oxfam Canada's vision is to expand and reinforce civil society space and empower the most disadvantaged people. Our starting point is strengthening civil society organisations committed to ending poverty, with a focus on people empowerment, community building and gender equality. Oxfam Canada focuses on 4 main "rights": to a sustainable livelihood, to life and security, to be heard and to an identity. With local partners, Oxfam Canada has developed a variety of different methodologies to strengthen the capacity of organisations, both to deliver services of benefit to people living in poverty and to defend their interests.
Our capacity-building efforts ranged from supporting institutional development and planning such as strategic plans, marketing and fundraising training (diversification strategies) and support, asset-based community development training and community-based risk management training.
Website: http://www.oxfam.ca
Plan Ethiopia
Plan is an international humanitarian, child-centred, development organisation, without religious, political or governmental affiliation. Child sponsorship is the basic foundation of the organisation.
Plan Ethiopia works in five program intervention areas with specific implementation objectives; (1.) Child Survival and Development Program (2.) Quality Universal Learning for Life (3.) Food and Nutrition Security (4.) Child Participation and Protection (5.) HIV/AIDS
Plan Ethiopia was established in 1995, and is currently working with partner communities (organizations) in four program units: In three Sub Cities of Addis Ababa Administrative Region; In Lalibela area of Bugna Woreda in Amhara National Regional State; In Shebedino Woreda of Southern Nations and Nationalities Peoples Region [SNNPR]; And in Jimma Zone of Oromia Regional state;
Website: http://www.plan-international.org/wherewework/eastafricaeurope/ethiopia/
Right To Play
Right To Play uses specially-designed sport and play programmes to improve health, build life skills, and foster peace for children and communities affected by war, poverty, disease. Working in both the humanitarian and development contexts, Right To Play has projects in 30 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Right To Play is the only global-scale implementer of Sport for Development and Peace programmes and takes an active role in driving research and policy development in this area and in supporting children's rights. We focus on four strategic program areas: Basic Education and Child Development, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Peace Education and Community Development and Participation.
Right To Play Ethiopia works with children who are directly affected by acute poverty and who may not have a chance to otherwise partake in sport, health and play activities: orphaned children, street children, children with a disability and in and out of school children from disadvantaged neighbourhoods. The Right To Play program directly supports the United Nations Convention Rights of the Child, the government's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper objectives, as well as the Millennium Development Goals.
Website: http://www.righttoplay.com/site/PageServer?pagename=canada
Save the Children Canada
Save the Children Canada has been working for over 80 years both in Canada and overseas to bring immediate and lasting improvements to children's lives through the realization of their rights. Save the Children Canada is a non-political, non-religious organization committed to long-term development at the grassroots level through partnerships with local communities, government bodies and international organizations. Save the Children Canada is a member of the International Save the Children Alliance with 28 members and operational programs in over 110 countries, the Alliance is the world's largest global movement for children. Save the Children Canada has been active in Ethiopia since 1997 and strategically interested in Amhara, Benshangul Gumuz and Oromiya Regions.
Website: http://www.savethechildren.ca
Street Kids International
Street Kids International is a non-profit agency founded in Canada that develops and disseminates strategies and tools to give street kids around the world the skills and opportunities to better their lives. We team with youth workers to develop locally relevant, innovative workshops using award winning animations that engage kids about sexual health, drug use and youth entrepreneurship. Having reached more than two million street kids in over 60 countries, Street Kids International has been recognized by the United Nations as a global best practice leader in youth work.
Street Kids International's workshops are geared toward front line youth workers active in entrepreneurship, health, and rights-based programming. Through our workshops, we engage youth practitioners with a powerful and transformative belief system wherein youth are seen as capable catalysts for change in their own lives.
Website: http://www.streetkids.org, http://whatsupstreetkids.org/
World Vision Ethiopia
World Vision began its firs relief project in 1971 in Ethiopia to the Nuer tribe refugees from civil war with Sudan. National office was established in 1975. Relief, rehabilitation and small community development projects dominated the decade that followed. During the 1984-85 drought, lives of millions were saved through relief operation. Following the rehabilitation of people affected by the drought, Area Development Program (ADP) model began in 1990 to bring about sustainable development. World Vision Ethiopia is working in Addis Ababa, and six regions: Afar, Amhara, Benshangul Gumuz, Oromia, South Nations Nationalities and People's State (SNNPS), and Tigray regions. The programs being carried out by World Vision Ethiopia in 2007 are benefiting a total of 12,495,724 people.
Website: http://www.worldvision.ca