Humanitarian Response

To reduce vulnerability and risks for emergency-affected individuals and families by providing effective, timely, and comprehensive humanitarian assistance, ensuring protection, basic needs, and access to essential services.

Targe Reach
  • Assisted 12,600+ IDPs, returnees, and host community members (70% women and girls) with protection, WASH, emergency cash, and nutrition services.
  • Supported 3,700+ conflict affected individuals with livelihood recovery initiatives.
  • Reached 11,790 GBV survivors with dignity kits, psychosocial support, cash assistance, legal aid, safe spaces, and strengthened PSEA mechanisms.
  • Constructed and furnished five classroom blocks in five refugee- and IDP-hosting schools, expanding access to safe and conducive learning environments.
  • Improved access to safe and inclusive primary education for over 4,000 displaced and out-of-school children in IDP and refugee camps through Accelerated School Readiness (ASR) and Accelerated Learning Programs (ALP), enabling them to successfully transition into the formal public school system.
  • Strengthened 224 teachers’ recruitment, retention, and professional development, supporting refugee and IDP teacher integration and benefiting 24,984 schoolchildren across seven learning centers.
Approach

We deliver multi-sectoral humanitarian interventions in both conflict- and climate-affected settings, including IDPs, refugees, returnees, and host communities. Our approach integrates:

  • Protection services to safeguard vulnerable groups, including children, women, and persons with disabilities.
  • Food and non-food assistance to meet immediate survival needs.
  • Education in emergencies to ensure continued learning for children and youth despite displacement (Accelerated School Readiness (ASR) and Accelerated Learning programs (ALP)).
  • WASH and environmental programs to provide safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and climate-resilient environmental support.
  • Skills training and livelihood support for youth and women
  • Community-based engagement to ensure interventions are context-sensitive, inclusive, and sustainable.
Target Beneficiaries
  • Internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees
  • Immigrants and returnees
  • Children, women, and other vulnerable groups in emergency-affected areas
  • Host communities impacted by crises
Key Activities
  • Distribution of food, non-food items, and emergency shelter
  • Child protection and psychosocial support for survivors of violence including GBV survivors
  • Establishment of temporary learning spaces and educational support
  • Provision of safe water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene awareness campaigns
  • Environmental restoration and climate adaptation initiatives
  • Economic reintegration through vocational and livelihood support for youth and young women

Contact Detail

 

Bole subcity, Woreda 3, Keble 03/05, Addis Ababa

Tel   +251 116 639776/78

e-mail: esdethio@gmail.com / esdeth@gmail.com 

Website: www.esdethio.org 

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