Our Program
Program Implementation Approach
PIDA will continue to implement the above mentioned programs using Suitable procedures and rights based on approach of engagement with our beneficiaries. The approach shall among other issues embrace:-
- Community involvement in all stages of project cycle
- Lobby and advocate for favorable government policy
- Reduction of extreme poverty for the vulnerable households
- Right based approach to program implementation.
Pastoralist child education
Education plays an important role in human development through the process of empowering people to improve their well-being and participate actively in nation building. However, the pastoralist areas, particularly the education is low in this part of the country and conditions for vulnerable students are even worse, many of them drop out of school before finished the primary due to a host of factors including early marriages, FGM, pregnancies, low community participation in education of their children , insecurity, nomadic lifestyle. Access to quality educations, retention and completion rate has remained very low in the regions despite free and compulsory policies adopted by the government. To achieve meaningful results there is need to build the capacity of the communities to appreciate not only education but also the fact that development and the future is in their hands.
PIDA has developed strategies to address these issues and hopes to achieve the following key results:-
- Increased enrolment, retention, performance and completion in primary schools;
- Enhanced opportunities for girls enrolment,
- Enhanced community capacity for lobbying and advocacy
- Provide innovative approaches, with opportunities for scale up that are sustainable.
WASH(Water & Sanitation)
Program aims at increased access to sustainable safe water, sanitation, and hygiene through rehabilitation /construction of water points, health, sanitation, awareness and education.
Expected results are as follows:-
- Increased access to safe water for human and livestock consumption for drought relief and livelihood support.
- Strengthen capacities of communities through training in the management, maintenance and sustainability of water systems and conflict mitigation.
- Mobilized communities with improved hygiene and sanitation through latrine construction, water source protection and public awareness on hygiene promotion education.
Health and Nutrition
The Health and Nutrition programme seeks to promote the health and nutrition status of vulnerable people in south-eastern Ethiopia and especially the women and children. Optimal nutrition ensures proper development of a child’s brain and body cells, enabling them to grow into productive adults who can contribute to the development of their society. The health and general well-being of pregnant women and those in their reproductive years determines the health of the children they will bear.
Key issues supported include:-
- Prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition
- Promotion of appropriate Maternal Infant and Young Child Nutrition
- Micro nutrient supplementation
- Health and hygiene education promotion
- Support to the Expanded Programme on Immunization {EPI}
- Integrated out reaches in hard to reach areas
- Capacity building of health personnel as well as the community health workers (CHWs)
- Coordination mechanisms at both national and regional/zonal levels
Food Security & Livelihoods
The sector focuses on environment and sustainable livelihood development; a priority area of work includes:-
- Rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and lands
- Sustainable improved livestock and crop production
- Promotion of sustainable and environmentally friendly production practices (adaptive to climate change)
- Livelihood and economic diversification
- Capacity developing trainings provided to pastoralist/women group members to build their capacities on kitchen gardens/ demo farmers, cooking, nutrition education and hygiene, seeds and seedlings production techniques, agro-based livelihoods, food processing, prevention techniques, group dynamics, marketing and entrepreneurial skills.
Women, Youth & Children Empowerments
The empowerment of women and girls is not only an important for an equitable society, it is essential to build stronger economies, achieve internationally agreed-upon development goals, and improve the quality of life of women, men, families, and communities.
PIDA promote Women’s Empowerment by offering them opportunities for leadership and full participation. Our programs advance these aims through:-
- Delivering basic literacy, numeracy, and training for pastoralists women and girls
- Promoting Women’s leaderships in marginalized communities of south-eastern Ethiopia
- Improving the economic empowerment of women by developing their business skills and increasing their employability;
- Educating family and community members on the important role of women in the workplace and community.
- Increasing number of pastoralists women and girls with capacity to use ICTs
- Psychosocial and economical support for women and girls with HIV/AIDS.