DanChurchAid in Ethiopia

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Business development support empowers refugees to be financially stable.

The small business development activity engages those who already have skills and ideas but need additional support to strengthen their businesses.

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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.

Ethiopia

From Danger to Dignity: Humanitarian Mine Action in Ethiopia

DCA Ethiopia work to address the immediate and long-term risks posed by explosive remnants of war.

Ethiopia

Empowering Households in Ethiopia through Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance

DCA work with consortium partners to empower communities with decision making through cash assistance

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Project Archive

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.