Local partners

Sudan Development Association
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Sudan Development Association (SDA) is a national non-governmental organization established in 1990. Its mission is to empower women, marginalized communities, and poor groups, and to promote gender equity through participation and awareness-raising. SDA registered with the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in 1996. Currently it has 16 staff members based in its Khartoum and Gedaref offices. Their program areas include integrated urban development, literacy, peace building, hygienic water supply and sanitation, capacity building of local groups to manage and control their own development initiatives, and the encouragement of alliances and networking in relation to SDA at local, national and international levels. In line with its partner capacity building initiative, Oxfam supported SDA in preparing a strategic plan workshop to design operation plans of the organization for the coming two years. In addition, SDA was supported with funding to reduce vulnerability and poverty of Darfur conflict-affected people through promotion of community livelihood systems and empowering women groups.

Sustainable Action Group (SAG)
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Now known as the Sustainable Action Group (SAG), this group was established and formally registered in the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs in August, 2001 by the name of Sudanese Agency for Environment and Development Service (SAEDS). Since its establishment, SAG has implemented several projects in health, income generation, environmental conservation, support for internally displaced people, and assistance with basic household SAG has an office in Khartoum and In El Fasher. Oxfam works with SAG to protect displaced people from gender-based violence, to improve their household food security, and to protect and rehabilitate the environment. Oxfam also provided additional funding for a workshop to review SAG's strategic plan for the next three years.

Water Aid / WASH Ethiopia Movement
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WaterAid is an international charity dedicated to helping people escape the stranglehold of poverty and disease caused by living without safe water and sanitation. WaterAid works in partnership with local organizations in 17 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific region. WaterAid also works to influence governments' water and sanitation policies to serve the interests of vulnerable people. WASH, hosted by WaterAid in Ethiopia, is a coalition of representatives from government, non-government- and faith-based organizations, UN agencies, the media, and the private sector. Together they work to gain political and social commitment to addressing the water, sanitation, and hygiene issues affecting the country. Oxfam's support to Water Aid /WASH Ethiopia focuses on mobilizing the society to place WASH firmly on the public agenda.

Women Development Group
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The Women Development Group (WDG) was established in the Bahr el Ghazal state of southern Sudan in 2000 during the war situation. Its objectives include helping vulnerable families through skills training in handicrafts and the supply of agricultural inputs. Since that time, the WDG has been actively engaged in fund raising, food security, peace building, and income generation projects in collaboration with other international non-governmental organizations.

Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union
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Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (YCFCU) was established in 2002 and has 22 member cooperatives representing 43,794 households. The cooperatives are located in Gedeo administrative zone in southern Ethiopia which is home to coffee with a truly unique flavor. Five of the member cooperatives are certified by the Fair Trade Labeling Organization. The union mainly focuses on coffee export, quality production, and processing coffee collected from primary cooperatives to maintain standardized quality in its organic form for sustainable marketing in the world.

Action for Development
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Action for Development is a registered local non-governmental organization established in 1997 to promote integrated and sustainable rural development in Ethiopia. AFD has ample experience in the area of implementing sustainable human development programs. It evolved from the Freedom from Hunger Campaign/Action for Development (FFHC/AD), a United Nations-supported program which implemented an integrated rural development program in partnership with community organizations and government agencies. Over the last few years, AFD has been implementing integrated rural development programs in the North Omo and Borana zones focusing on basic education, dry land agriculture, income generation, livestock development, training and capacity building, water development, pastoral development, and women in development.

Ajaweed Organization for Peace and Reconciliation
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Ajaweed Organization for Peace and Reconciliation (AOPR) is a local Darfur-based non-governmental organization established in February 2002 and registered in July 2002 at the state state level at El Fasher town. The main area of AOPR intervention is peace building through indigenous mechanisms. Ajaweed came from the term (Judiya) which is an indigenous mechanism of conflict prevention, management and resolution developed over hundreds of years. As young tribal, administrative leaders and intellectuals became important actors in the current Darfur context, AOPR is promoting an indigenous Judiya mechanism and working to include new actors and issues such as youth and women. AOPR and Oxfam America have participated in and organized several workshops, meetings and small group dialogues with different groups in Darfur including displaced people, youths, tribal leaders, women?s groups, civil society, and political parties.

Center for Development Initiatives
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Center for Development Initiative is a local not-for-profit voluntary organization established in 1997 to promote integrated rural development with its main focus being children, women, and marginalized community groups in Ethiopia. CDI has implemented education programs in Siraro district as well as programs for household food security and women in development in the Shashemene districts in East Shewa zone. For its program implementation, CDI has 12 staff members and volunteers. It also has an active board and members who support, participate in, and closely follow the day-to-day progress of the organization. In addition, CDI is a member of the Christian Relief and Development Association (CRDA), an umbrella association which has more than 200 national and international non-governmental organizations as members.

Community Based Development Concern
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Community Based Development Concern (CBDC) is a non-profit and non-governmental organization engaged in promoting integrated development activities in Oromia as well as other regions of the country. It has register with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Ministry of Justices on July 4, 2007, and signed an operational agreement with Federal Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency. Subsequent to this, the organization has signed a five-year project agreement focusing on agricultural livelihoods, women?s empowerment, health, education and child rights with the Oromia Bureau of Finance and Economic Development. The work will be implemented in the Nansabo and Dodola districts of the West Arsi Zone of Oromia National Regional State. Oxfam works with CBDC and its focus on improving the livelihood of small coffee farmers through the production and marketing of quality coffee.

Community Development Associations
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Community Development Associations is a Darfur-based non-governmental organization, which was founded in 1997 to support the people living in Abu Souroug village, but switched its focus to peace-building after conflict erupted in Darfur in early 2003. It carries out projects involved in peace building, encouraging education for girls, and advocating for human rights and gender equity. In addition, it also provides services in the form of digging wells, supporting basic education, improved stove training, and food security projects. CDA's direct involvement in peace initiatives includes building the capacity of local leaders and participating as a gender expert during the Abuja negotiations.

Dar El Salam Development Association
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Dar El Salam Development Association (DDA) is a partner of Oxfam America as well as a member of and partner with other humanitarian institutions. It is an umbrella organization to 32 community based organizations in Dar Elsalam and El Fasher localities. Its vision is to work in a participatory and transparent manner with partners at the grassroots level. Oxfam supported DDA in organizing a strategic planning and technical capacity building workshop to review the current strategic plan and to develop technical institutional tools for long term activities in its work with Ajaweed Organization for Peace and Reconciliation (AOPR). Additional funding was provided to reduce the poverty and suffering of Darfur conflict-affected people living in Shangil Tobai municipality.

Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency
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Darfur Development and Reconstruction Agency (DRA) was established in 1995 in El Fasher and registered in July 2007. DRA's vision is "a Darfur free from suffering and human injustice, with the people enjoying the fruits of peaceful co-existence, social tolerance, and economic prosperity." The current membership of DRA provides a wealth of experienced practitioners in the humanitarian sector with unique standards currently leading humanitarian work in Sudan. They possess sound interpersonal and managerial skills in assessing, designing, implementing and evaluating humanitarian responses. To date DRA has implemented one program of cloth distribution to displaced people in El Fasher and it is currently working with Oxfam to restore and protect the livelihoods of displaced households.

El Medina Centre for Gender (MCG)
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El Medina Centre for Gender (MCG) is a local non-governmental organization dedicated to preparing Darfur women for leadership, to enhance women's participation in the public sphere, and to promote their social awareness. It was established in south Darfur state and registered at Humanitarian Affair Commission (HAC) in 2003. Its office is in Nyala in South Darfur. Since its establishment, MCG has implemented five training courses on gender mainstreaming in conflict and post-conflict situations in Nyala, Kass, Zallinge, and El Fasher. The courses have been supported by Development Alternative DAI. In addition, with support from UNFPA, the center has trained women on how to prevent conflict in South Darfur. Oxfam works with MCG to promote inclusiveness in the Darfur peace-building process and to ensure that women's views are reflected.

Envision Beyond Basic Needs Association
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Envision Beyond Basic Needs Association (EBBA) is a national non-governmental organization established in 2006. EBBA works to fulfill the basic needs for the entire population of the country in general and the marginalized and vulnerable groups in particular. EBBA?s strategy for program implementation is based on recognizing the indigenous knowledge and traditional wisdom that exists in the community. Program focus areas of EBBA include availability and access to basic needs and services, diversification of economic opportunities and livelihoods, drought mitigation and early warning systems, rehabilitation and conservation of natural resources, and building the capacity of the communities to be self-reliant, advocate for their human rights, and empower them to decide their own destinies.

Ethiopian Red Cross Society
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The Borena zone's branch office of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society is a humanitarian organization operating through the Borena and Guji administrative zones. Oxfam has been involved in numerous relief and rehabilitation projects with ERCS including capacity building workshops, cross-border information exchanges, providing access to water, and making first aid available in remote areas. We are also working together on disaster and disease prevention methods as well as utilizing traditional practices in resolving local conflicts.

Gayo Pastoral Development Initiative
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Gayo Pastoral Development Initiative is an indigenous non-governmental organization established in 2003 by a group of concerned professional people from the Borena zone. GPDI works with the pastoral community in the Borena lowlands to improve their livelihoods through various programs including clearing of brush, providing emergency assistance in the form of water, veterinary services, and pastures, and providing destitute pastoralists with camels. Currently, GPDI is collaborating with Oxfam and the Harvard Health Initiative to set up an early warning surveillance system to be able to identify and prepare for future humanitarian crises in the Borena zone.

Girga Integrated Rural Development Association
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Girga Integrated Rural Development Association (GIRDA) is a non-governmental, non-profit, secular, and non-political humanitarian organization founded in 2005 to support the poor, marginalized, and vulnerable people of the Gujii zone of the Oromia region. GIRDA aims to see a prosperous, economically self-reliant, and educated community that can play a role in the development of the nation. Focus areas of GIRDA are health promotion, basic education, food security, and infrastructure development.

Goh Child Youth Women Development Organization
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Goh Child, Youth and Women Development Organization (GCYWDO) is an indigenous, secular, non-governmental, non-profit, and non-political humanitarian organization founded in 1996. GCYWDO aspires to alleviate poverty by addressing the crucial problems facing particularly destitute children, girls, and female-headed households. Organizational aims of GCYWDO are provision of institutional child care services for orphaned children and community-based child care services; provision of seed capital for destitute and economically marginalized families; and undertaking HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and support activities.

Gudina Tumsa Foundation
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Gudina Tumsa Foundation (GTF) is a national Ethiopian non-governmental organization established in 1992 to carry on the vision of the late reverend Gudina Tumsa. The vision is: "To see empowered communities that perceive themselves as capable human beings equipped to actively engage in all aspects of spiritual and physical human life." GTF has been working with pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in Fantalle District of the East Showa zone of Oromia Regional State since its establishment. The current work with Oxfam focuses on reducing the existing risks, vulnerabilities, human suffering, and animal death resulting from recurrent drought and conflict through community access to water supply development, community institutional capacity building, and policy advocacy interventions.

Initiative Africa
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Initiative Africa (IA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Ethiopia which brings together practitioners and their organizations to improve and innovate governance and development practices in Ethiopia and Africa. Through locally driven development programs and activities, IA promotes the study of public and private governance, strengthens collective empowerment, and facilitates dialogue and knowledge sharing among a wide range of actors. IA was instrumental in Oxfam's coffee initiative in communicating the message of coffee farmers to the public through films, music, roundtables, and art exhibitions.