In March 2022, the CSO community platform members in Wolaita Sodo held a community conversation on two thematic issues. The Sodo platform established and supported by British Counsel's implementing partner Emmanuel Development Association (EDA) is comprised of migrants, prospective migrants, and community representatives who are working to bring out grassroots voices on issues of migration of management. In the conversation, the platform members discussed ways of enhancing resilience through job creation in Wolaita Sodo to reduce irregular migration and ways to improve the operations of private employment agencies. U
EDA has donated medical equipment’s for 10 Health Centers and 2 Hospitals in Oromo Special Zone of Amhara Region with the grant assistance of Children Believe..
The donation has been made to address the damaged and looted health facilities due to armed civil war and hostilities occurring in the region since few months ago. The donation mainly contains biomedical equipment’s of laboratory materials, electronics and biomechanical equipment’s of items with twenty types such as delivery coaches, delivery sets, patient beds, examination coaches, infusion stands, microscopes, stethoscopes, electrical vacuums, weighing scales, autoclaves and so on.
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Brief profile
EDA Afghanistan is a global program initiative committed to addressing and empowering the Afghan grassroots society, particularly, marginalized children youth, and women to be vibrant members of the community so that to contribute to the national development and economy.EDA believes in Community participation, Collaboration with different stakeholders, and bringing sustainable and lasting development and Change in the lives of the society. EDA is headquartered in Ethiopia-Addis Ababa. The EDA Afghanistan is represented by a country director based in Kabul to manage and monitor the ongoing projects.
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June 2021 marks the tenth anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the globally recognized framework for State duties and business responsibilities in preventing and addressing business-related human rights abuse.
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Covid-19 support at Debrebirhan
Emmanuel Development Association provided over 208,000-birr worth of food and hygiene inputs to 89 vulnerable families and their 196 children affected by COVID 19 in Debre Birhan on December 29, 2020.
Among the 1000 targeted beneficiaries some of the families involved in the program have been affected by the COVID 19 epidemic and in collaboration with Menschen für Menschen Switzerland, this third round emergency support was provided to 89 families and their 196 children affected by the epidemic.
Depending on the size of the family, the distribution was provided and for a family with one child will get 15 kilograms of bread flour, 1 liter of oil, 3 pics of pasta, 3 kilograms of rice, 3 kilograms of beans, 2 soap and a face mask was provided
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Emmanuel Development Association in collaboration with MfM-Switzerland the Emergency response COVID-19 in Deberberhan, Amhara Region. Follow this link to read from the source EDA with MfM Read More:
EDA's READ II project supported by USAID from the reading camps in Wolayita Zone Humbo Woreda as model reading camps selected as a best practice. Please watch the video taken from the intervention area following this link. Reading Camps Video Read More:
Download and Read the annual Report following this link EDA 2019 Annual Report or you can find it from the Quick Download Section at the footer of this page. Read More:
Freedom Fund partner Emmanuel Development Association (EDA) is a frontline organisation in our Ethiopia hotspot. EDA seeks to raise awareness of safer migration, engage and build the capacity of local institutions to better address and prevent human trafficking, provide job training and support to women looking to work within Ethiopia, and assist aspiring migrant workers to comply with legal requirements for migration.
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