Afar Community Initiative
Sustainable Development
Association(ACISDA)
ACISDA Afar Ethiopia
ACISDA is legally registered as a national non- governmental organization (NGO)
in November 2007 with a registration number 2290 that focused on charity works and activities in Afar National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia.
ACISDA is one of the leading national humanitarian organizations headquartered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with a project coordination office at its program operational areas of Afar region Semera town.
ACISDA is concerned to improving the life condition of most marginalized and hard-to-reach Afar pastoral women and girls’ in terms of gender equality, economic empowerment of women and girls, ending all forms of violence against women and girls (EVAWG) and including harmful traditional practices (HTPs). maternal neonatal health improvement, addressing access to quality education for Afar pastoral children’s particularly focusing on girls education and children with disability (CWD), facilitate to enhance the engagement of women and girls in peace building conflict mitigation, and emergency preparedness and response programs.
The organization has an excellent working relationship with its communities, funding partners, local government officials, and various stakeholders.
Our Core Beliefs
Let’s build on global commitments at a serious time to support vulnerable girls and young women to stay School at Northern Ethiopia, Afar Region.
Mission
ACISDA mission is improving the life condition of most marginalized and hard-to-reach Afar pastoral women and girls’ through implementing its projects focusing on gender equality, women rights, elimination of gender based violence GBV and including harmful traditional practice (HTPs), maternal neonatal health improvement, sexual reproductive health rights, and addressing access to education for Afar pastoral children’s with promoting inclusive education focusing on girls education and children with disability (CWD)
Vission
ACISDA vision: We are committed and ensured to create women and girls to be strong and independent society without inequalities and any form of discrimination, and enjoys their fundamental rights and equal opportunities.
ACISDAs Guiding Principal
Utilization of local wisdom and resources. Encouragement of innovation and creativity. Prioritizing quality. Enhancing coordination and networking. Accepting challenges
Core Values
Accountability
Promote and practice forward accountability at grass root level and within our stockholders and will practice the Community Reflection Review Process /CRRP/ which means forward accountability. In addition, ACISDA consistently works in a spirit of mutual trust, honesty, transparency and accountability.
Courage
ACISDA promotes and exercises a courageous culture within the organization leadership role as well as grass-root level implementation. Encourage and make relevant assistance for our employee to make our vision and values to be realistic.
Initiative
It’s a part of Afar Community initiative ACISDA try to address their problem by itself. Strengthen social structure that working together in our implementation. As an Afar indigenous NGO trying to make respond local problem by local solution and identify their priority need, implement with them through project planning up to end of the project life.
Sustainability
Seek sustainable results, by acting to identify and address underlying causes of poverty and rights detailed, we develop and use approaches that ensure our program results in lasting and fundamental improvement in the lives of the poor and marginalized with whom we work.
Development
Seek sustainable results, by acting to identify and address underlying causes of poverty and rights detailed, we develop and use approaches that ensure our program results in lasting and fundamental improvement in the lives of the poor and marginalized with whom we work.
Acceptability
ACISDA takes pride in being the native indigenous local NGO working in Afar pastoral community that oriented to women and girls equality in any development and humanitarian spheres. As indigenous Afar people local (NGO), we are respected positive social norms of the community and facilitate community participation to create ownership feeling in each project implementation in order to ensure target beneficiaries acceptance
What We Do?
Empowering Women and Girls
- Economic Empowerment: Providing women and girls with skills and resources to increase their economic independence.
- Leadership & Advocacy: Training women to take leadership roles in their communities and advocate for their rights.
Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (EVAWG)
ACISDA aims to carry out all-inclusive interventions that will address all forms of violence and including harmful traditional practices (HTPs) against women and girls throughout their life cycle and ensuring preventative measures, are in place.
- Awareness Campaigns: Raising awareness about the harmful effects of gender-based violence (GBV).
- Support & Advocacy: Providing safe spaces, legal aid, and counseling for survivors of violence.
Equality and Inclusion
Promoting Education for Children, Especially Girls and Children with Disabilities (CWD)
Access to quality education is a fundamental human right. ACISDA works to improve educational opportunities for children, with a focus on girls and children with disabilities (CWD), ensuring that no child is left behind.
- Inclusive Education: Creating accessible learning environments for children with disabilities.
- Girls’ Education: Encouraging families to send girls to school and supporting girls in completing their education.
SEXUAL REPRODUCTYIVE HEALTH RIGHTs (SRHR)
Facilitating to full, free, and informed choice regarding all aspects of sexuality and reproduction through promoting human right based approach (HRBA), expanding access to information and services related to contraception, safe abortion and post abortion care, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, cervical cancer, and more
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE (GBV)
Addressing and preventing GBV incidence’s, and supporting survivors of women and girls through facilitating comprehensive GBV services in light of Survivor-centered approach, building the capacity of health care providers and health facilities to ensure survivor-centered GBV services, increasing multi-sectorial stakeholder’s engagement to prevent and response the upcoming SGBV incidences, enhancing the livelihood condition of GBV survivors, and working with communities to address harmful gender social norms .
FORMAL AND INFORMAL EDUCATION
Focusing on access to education for girls, young mothers, and children with disability (CWD) through improving their educational barriers, ensuring that education services and policies are gender-responsive in emergency and humanitarian settings, with specific attention to girls and young women needs and risk of dropping out of school, promote menstrual hygiene and reproductive health education, and strengthen grass-root level girls agencies and social media girls education activists to fulfill their dream
PEACE BUILDING AND HUMANITARIAN PROGRAM
Facilitate to create a safe environment for women and girls to participate and actively engage in peace building processes and emergency response program. Make sure with a particular attention of women and girls participation in any peace building and humanitarian response actions. Create livelihood opportunities, and social protection, and special attention should be dedicated to support women and girls in conflict-affected areas, women refugees and IDPs.
Beneficiary Feedbacks
Beneficiary 1 Ekeram Kassahun Ademsaid
Beneficiary 2 Seada Ali Gudele
Beneficiary 3 Zahara Wuhibe
Beneficiary 4 Keyreya Jemale
OUR PARTNERS
Awards
Currently ACISDA is received a global grant award-winning local (NGO) from Feminist Malala Fund in order to implement the project entitled (Addressing the Education Barriers of Pastoral Girls through Improving Social norms, Promoting Gender Inclusive Education, and upgrading Inadequate Learning Conditions for Girls). In addition, ACISDA is Medallion Award Winner of Afar Region in early 2015 as best NGO performing in Afar Region, and similarly received recognition certificate from different Woredas/Districts local government offices on GBV and girls education.
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ACIDA is a locally registered an indigenous non- governmental organization (NGO), legally registered that focused on charity works and activities in Afar National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia, in November 2007.
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