CANGO: Canadian Network of NGOs

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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

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.cfh.ca, http://www.fh.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 that works with the mission to create income opportunities for poor rural households. IDE was founded on the belief that the way to alleviate poverty and enable smallholder prosperity is to help these small farmers earn profit from their limited resources. We do this through a three-fold strategy: providing small farmers with access to affordable water technologies, by which they can irrigate their small plots of land; enabling them grow high value cash crops and creating connections to markets, where they can sell their produce to generate income. Our approach has been developed over more than 26 years by listening and responding to the needs of the rural poor.

In Ethiopia, IDE is working in Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP), Oromia and Amhara Regional States; with focus on fruits, vegetables, coffee, pepper and honey value chains.

IDE Focus Areas

Within the overall context of global poverty, IDE focuses on Rural Poverty because more than 70 percent of the world’s extremely poor people live in rural areas.

IDE focuses on increasing Income because a secure source of income provides the poor with a basis for addressing other poverty factors such as food security, health, housing, and education.

IDE focuses on increasing Agricultural Productivity because agriculture is the basis of rural economies and builds on the limited assets that the rural poor have already, i.e., small amounts of land and water plus their own labor and know-how.

IDE focuses on Water Access and Control as a primary entry point because its absence is the most important single productivity constraint facing millions of small farmers throughout the developing world.

IDE focuses on Smallholder Market Access because we believe that this leads to wider and more sustainable impacts and more efficient use of resources.

Website: http://www.ide-international.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

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

Partnership Africa Canada
Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) was founded twenty years ago, placing an emphasis on its work on strengthening African civil society organizations, seeing them as the cornerstone for building sustainable development. As a funding mechanism, PAC has supported hundreds of innovative projects throughout sub-Saharan Africa. More recently, as a research and policy-dialogue organisation, PAC has been able to help galvanise action on several urgent issues, in partnership with African and Canadian organisations.

The violence and exploitation that characterizes natural resources and diamonds in particular, has led PAC to play a prominent role in the ongoing international effort to bring an end to the "conflict diamond" phenomenon - the Kimberley Process. PAC also supports research and awareness-raising programmes on the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and African civil society's participation in it. PAC publishes the APRM Monitor.
Website: http://www.pacweb.org

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

Samaritan’s Purse
Samaritan’s Purse is a non-denominational evangelical Christian organization providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan’s Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine. Samaritan’s Purse began working in Ethiopia in 1984. It has been involved with a wide variety of projects including water point establishment (bore holes), children’s projects, education, vocational training, famine relief, BioSand Water Filters, church and pastor support, agriculture, and women’s assistance.

Samaritan’s Purse believes that the poverty situation of Ethiopia is so intricate and complex in nature that a single project/intervention cannot answer the development needs of a specific locality or woreda. Thus, addressing the need to tackle the development problem of target woredas in a more holistic and integrated manner is of paramount importance. Therefore, whenever Samaritan’s Purse enters a woreda, it will put its maximum effort to design and implement various projects that are pertinent to the community’s holistic needs.
Website: http://www.samaritanspurse.org/, http://www.samaritanspurse.ca/

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

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

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