AFRICANEWS

Action for Development(AFD)

Action for Development (AFD), an Ethiopian NGO, was constituted as an indigenous organization in 1996.AFD began as the FAO-operated Freedom from Hunger Campaign/Action for Development (FFHC/AD).FFHC/AD began with the objective of channeling NGO assistance for rehabilitation in selected rural areas after the 1984 drought.It operated as a partnership among farmers' organizations, sectoral offices and bureaus, northern NGOs and the FAO. FFHC/AD programs primarily involved agricultural inputs and a revolving credit fund managed by farmers cooperatives. It operated in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia.

AFD continues this work in SNNPR and Oromia with plans to expand in those regions.Primary beneficiaries are farmers and pastoralists, and rural women and youth.AFD estimates that the most important benefits of its programs are "enhanced stability of production, awareness of improved land and farm management practices, improved access to resources and services, and increased local capability to implement programmes aimed at alleviating local problems."

An AFD profile states that in "partnership with the marginal segments of the population in its area of operation AFD believes that it can make useful contributions to the enhancement of initiatives for the attainment of food security and improved livelihoods at the grassroots level."

For further information contact:
Action for Development
P.O. Box 19859
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Telephone: 251 1 153142 & 185767
Fax: 251 1 515266

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Goal Ethiopia

GOAL Ethiopia is an international NGO undertaking development , rehabilitation and emergencyreal activities. It operates in eight countries around the world with its head office being stationed in Ireland. Since 1984 GOAL has been working with some of the poorest communities in Ethiopia and currently , it has implementedthree projects in the country in collaboration with the Ethiopian government. In East Shoa Zone of the Oromia Regional State, GOAL implemented a Primary HealthCare and Water Project for 30 000 Kereyou nomads in Fentale Woreda under five year project agreement which is to last until November 1999. The project includes:

• Provision of mobile outreach mother and child health services and health education classes. This is providedfor 14 semi-permanent village sitesin a monthly basis,
• Training of local traditional birth attendants
• Training of Kereyou community water and health management committees; and
• Training of three Kereyou Health Assistants and two nurses.

Prior to GOAL'sinvolvement in the area,Kereyou nomads had no access to basic health care and sources of safe water were extremely limited. In addition to this GOAL has constructed two health stations and staff Residences and Two water distribution systems for the people in the area and their animals. In October 1997, GOAL inaugurated the first health station ,staff residence and water distribution system and since then it has been providing health services for 10 000 people living in the vicinity of Illala Health Station and staff residence was handed over to the zonal health department in October 1998. The second health station staff residence and water distribution system at Turo village which is 36km away, will be inaugurated on September 1, 1999. After rendering services for one year, GOAL will then hand it over to the zonal health department. ( Reprinted from: CRDA News, October 1998)

For more information contact:
P.O. Box 5674, Tel 251-1-650100 Fax 251-1-652280
e-mail: crda@telecom.net.et
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia