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Main activities
Saving Lives
By responding to the emergent humanitarian needs of disaster affected households with a timely and appropriate response. DCA supports local structures to develop preparedness plans and collect and interpret early warning information.
Responding to the humanitarian needs of refugees and their hosting communities is the other main component of this programme area.
Building Resilient Communities
By improving the natural, financial, social and human capital of target households.
The main interventions include productivity focused land treatment and natural resource management; enhancing market linkage and value-chain development; promoting livelihood diversification; enhancing resilience through mainstreaming community-based Disaster Risk Reduction; and strengthening youth employment.
Fighting Extreme Inequalities
By emphasising women’s socio-economic empowerment and transformation of community norms in favour of vulnerable groups.
This includes enhancing the capacity of local actors (including government) for increased responsiveness to the needs of vulnerable groups; improving the capacity of community- and faith-based organisations and their leaders to serve as change agents and to fight HTPs; supporting establishment of self-help groups of women as economic and social agents; and promoting accountability throughout our work.
CURRENT PROJECTS
SPREAD in Ethiopia
The SPREAD project straddles the borders between Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan where more than a dozen different pastoralist and agro-pastoralist groups live. For Ethiopia, the project is implemented in South Omo.
SPREAD focuses on making sure that food production is sufficient while increasing the capacity for entrepreneurship and income generation. All activities in SPREAD have an inbuilt focus on conflict resolution and peace.
The primary target groups are women and youth, traditional leaders, national and local authorities, as well as small business owners in the area who form the backbone of the local economies.

DCA Ethiopia in numbers
6 offices (Addis Ababa, Bale, Gambella, Omorate, Semera, Waghimra).
13 local partners.
26 projects implemented across Ethiopia in 2024.
72 employees.
246,582 (123,675 F) people directly reched by DCA-ET in 2024.
8,565,489 EUR turnover in 2024.
- DCA Ethiopia Fact Sheet (PDF)
- DCA Fact Sheet (PDF)
Learn more about DCA in Ethiopia
Donors
DCA operations in Ethiopia are supported by Danida, US Department of State (BPRM), European Union, WFP, P4G, Carrot Aid, and Gain.
Contact DanChurchAid in Ethiopia
Head Office
Addis Ababa, Ethio-China Friendship Avenue
Kirkos sub-city, Woreda 02, House No 9999/1
Postal Address: 28772 Code 1000
Phone: +251 911 551 40 47
Fax: +251 911 552 78 14
Email: info-ethiopia@dca.dk
Country Director
Anne Hoff