THE LUTHERAN WORLD FEDERATION World Service LWF World Service Ethiopia member of ANNUAL REPORT 2016/2017 /Magnus Aronson
CONTENT Presentation 4 Who we are 5 Where we are 9 LWF s intervention in 2016/2017 10 Significant milestones of the year (2016/17) 14 LWF strategy 15 Financial Statement 19 Partnership 21 In memoriam 22 LWF staff 22 Dedication 23
PRESENTATION Dear partners, The years 2016 and 2017 were marked by multiple humanitarian crises, namely the El Niño and the Negative Indian Ocean dipole weather phenomena-induced droughts in 2016 and 2017 affecting millions of people and the ethnic and border conflicts displacing thousands starting in September 2017. LWF Ethiopia responded to these crises focusing on Bale and East Hararghe Zones in Oromia Regional State, in Fafan Zone in Somali Regional State as well as in North Wollo Zone, in the Amhara Regional State where LWF has existing presence, capacity and capabilities. At the same time, LWF continued to support host and refugee communities through long term development programming in Amhara, Oromia and Somali Regional States as well as refugee assistance in AwBarre/Sheder refugee camps in Jijiga in Somali Regional State, in Bambasi and Gure Shembola refugee camps in Benishangul Gumuz Regional State as well as in Jewi refugee camp in Gambella Regional State. We would like to extend our sincere thank you to the Ethiopian Government, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the ACT Alliance, national, international multilateral for their support and accompaniment. As we look ahead, the year 2018 is shaping up to be just as or more challenging as the past two years and trust that you will continue to walk with LWF as we seek to serve. Thank you. 4 Annual Report
VISION People in Ethiopian society meet their priority needs, and improve their quality of life. MISSION Inspired by God s love to humanity, LWF Ethiopia works together with communities for their empowerment, as agents of their own development, to practice their rights, and to live in harmony with their social and natural environment. OUR CORE VALUES Dignity and Justice Compassion and Commitment Inclusiveness and Participation Accountability and Transparency Annual Report 5
WHO WE ARE Lutheran World Federation (LWF) was established in Lund, Switzerland in 1947 and then moved its headquarters to Geneva. It is communion of 145 churches in 98 countries. LWF World service is the internationally recognized humanitarian and development arm of the LWF. LWF World Service Ethiopia/ LWF Ethiopia is one of the country programs under World Service. LWF became operational in Ethiopia in 1971 at the request of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), an LWF member church, to assist communities in Northern Ethiopia. EECMY s then President the late Emmanuel Abraham also plead for more support in 1976 for LWF to extend relief assistance to communities in other parts of the country that were affected by the natural disaster. 6 Annual Report
Through the Soil and Water Conservation Project, a number of irrigation water structures were constructed. 101 river diversions 12 micro-dams 14 spring development 341.7km of canals were constructed all before 2000. These structures enabled to irrigate about 31,600 hectares of farmlands and benefit about 161,300 agro-pastoral and pure agriculturalist households all over the country. During the last 47 years, LWF Ethiopia implemented a sizable number of relief and rehabilitation projects including soil and water conservation projects (SWCPs) focusing on small scale irrigation and integrated rural development activities. The SWCPs were characterized by a strong focus on dams, river diversion for small scale irrigation and agricultural and natural resources development. These community development activities intensified after 1995 but the soil and water conservation project was phased out in 2006 as a result of shift in the strategy of the organization. Annual Report 7
In light of the changing development approaches, the country program designed and started implementation of its second Country Strategic Planning and shifted its strategy to adoption of more sustainable community development projects as a prominent tool to further strengthen the sustainability and ownership of its development and rehabilitation interventions by the target groups. Besides, the country program has been intervening in Refugee Assistance Projects particularly for the Somali, South Sudanese and Sudanese Refugees. LWF Ethiopia has been engaged in refugee assistance and drought emergency responses. Up to 2011 and in 2017, various drought response activities were/have been carried out through the ACT Alliance appeal mechanism and through funding from other organizations. To meet the pressing needs of the Somali Refugees, LWF Ethiopia joined the humanitarian organizations working in the Teferiber and Sheder refugee camps in 2007 and 2008 respectively and later in Aw-Barre refugee camp. LWF Ethiopia has been implementing activities in WASH, environmental protection, Psychosocial Support, household energy and livelihood promotion in Bambasi, Gambella Aw-barre and Sheder camps. 8 Annual Report
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AND THEMATIC AREAS Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), emergency preparedness and response Sustainable livelihoods Quality and sustainable practices and programs WHERE WE ARE LWF Ethiopia with its head office in Addis Ababa had field offices in 5 National Regional states and two Regional Coordination offices in Jijiga in Somali and in Bale in Oromia National Regional States. MAP OF PROJECTS IN 2016/2017 Tigray Lasta & Lalibela ACT Drought Emergency Response Project (2016) Afar Lalibela Food Security Project Amhara Sudanese Refugee Assistance Project (Bambasi and Gure-Shembola camps, Assosa) Gambela Benishangul- Gumaz Addis-Ababa Dire Dawa Harari Gursum FSLP Gursum WEP Jijiga FSLP Fafan WASH Emergency Response Project (ERM) South Sudanese Refugee Assistance Project (Jewi Camp, Gambela) Hetosa SDSSF Project Gasera SLWE Project Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People Oromia Resilience Building Project (Rayitu and Dawe Kachen Somali Water Supply for refugees and host communities (Awbarre & Sheder Camps, WASH and Livelihood Jijiga) and Livelihood Support Rayitu and Dawe Kechen (2017) Somali Refugee Assistance Project (Awbarre & Sheder Camps, Jijiga) Annual Report 9
LWF S INTERVENTION IN 2016/2017 /Magnus Aronson
In 2016 and 2017, LWF continued operating in Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Oromia and Somali National Regional States implementing sustainable livelihoods and refugee response projects. Under the thematic area sustainable livelihoods, LWF implemented Food Security and Livelihoods (FSLP) projects in Amhara, Oromia and Somali National Regional States focusing on developing capacity communities in becoming food secure and in climate change adaptation and mitigation. In addition to FSLP, LWF Ethiopia launched the Emergency Response Project in Lasta district of North Wollo Zone of the Amhara National Regional State since March 2016 and later in Rayitu district of the Oromia National Regional State in July 2016. Overall, LWF Ethiopia supported 150,760 Ethiopians in its FSLP and drought emergency response in 2016 and 174,427 in 2017. TOTAL DIRECT BENEFICIARIES IN 2017 2016 2017 9% Sustainable livelihood 8% Sustainable livelihood 35% 32% Refugee response 56% Refugee response 60% Drought emergency Drought emergency LWF Ethiopia s Refugee Assistance Projects are implemented in Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, and Somali National Regional States supporting Sudanese, South Sudanese and Somali refugees. LWF Ethiopia had different projects in these regions providing support to the refugees in livelihoods, psychosocial, Water Hygiene and Sanitation Services (WaSH) and energy. LWF Ethiopia ensures that all its humanitarian interventions do not cause further harm to refugee and host by applying the Do No Harm approach to mitigate potential conflict. Overall, LWF Ethiopia supported 83,392 refugees in 2016 and 82,563 refugee in 2017 through its refugee assistance response. In total LWF supported 165,955 refugees. Annual Report 11
TABLE 1 LWF sustainable livelihoods, drought emergency and refugee assistance projects in 2016 S,N Name of the Project Project Location Region Zone 1. Sustainable livelihoods (Food Security, Rehabilitation and Emergency Response Projects) 1.1 Gursum Food Security and Livelihood Project Somali East Hararge 1.2 Gasera Food Security and Livelihood Project Oromia Bale 1.3 Jigjiga District Food Security and Livelihood Project Somali Fafan 1.4 Lalibela Food Security Project Amhara 1.5 Gursum Women Empowerment Project Somali 1.6 1.7 1.8 Rayitu and Dawe-Kachen Resilience Building Project in Bale Zone Hetosa Sustainable Development for Small Scale Farmers Project Lasta Lalibela and Rayitu Drought Emergency Project (ACT ETH 161) Oromia Oromia Amhara 1.9 Lasta Emergency Response to El Niño Induced Drought Project Amhara North Wollo East Hararge Bale East Arsi North Wollo North Wollo 2. Refugee Assistance Projects 2.1 Improved self sufficiency of somali refugees in Jijiga camps Somali Jijiga 2.2 Water Supply for the Somali refugees and host community in Aw-barre and Shedder Somali Jijiga 2.3 Livelihoods and Psychosocial Support to South Sudanese Refugees in the Jewii Camp and the Host communities Gambella Anuak 2.4 Livelihood Support to South Sudanese Refugees in the Jewii Camp and the host communities Gambella Anuak 2.5 WASH intervention for South Sudanese refugees in Jewii Camp Gambella Anuak 2.6 Community Based Psychosocial Support for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.7 Sustainable household energy for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.8 Livelihoods and Environment Support to Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.9 WASH intervention for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Camp Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 12 Annual Report
TABLE 2 LWF sustainable livelihoods, drought and refugee assistance projects in 2017 S,N Name of the Project Project Location Region District/Zone 1. Sustainable livelihood (Food Security, Rehabilitation and Emergency Response Projects) 1.1 Gursum Food Security and Livelihood Project Somali East Hararge 1.2 Gursum sustainable livelihood and women empowerment Somali East Hararge 1.3 Jigjiga District Food Security and Livelihood Project Somali Fafan 1.4 Lalibela Food Security Project Amhara North Wollo 1.5 Gursum Women Empowerment Project Somali East Hararge 1.6 Rayitu and Dawe-Kachen Resilience Building Project in Bale Zone Oromia Bale 1.7 Hetosa Sustainable Development for Small Scale Farmers Project Oromia East Arsi 1.8 Livestock support Rayitu Oromia Bale 1.9 WASH and Livelihood Intervention for Rayitu and Dawekachen Oromia Bale 1.10. WASH Emergency response to drought affected people in Kebribeyah and Harshin districts of Fafan zone, Somali regional state Somali Fafan 2. Refugee Assistance Projects 2.1 Livelihoods and Psychosocial Support to South Sudanese Refugees in the Jewi Camp and the Host communities Gambella Anuak 2.2 Community Based Psychosocial Support for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.3 Sustainable household energy for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.4 WASH intervention for Sudanese refugees in Bambasi Camp Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.5 Joint Emergency Cash in WASH NFIs Assistance to South Sudanese Refugees in Gure Shembola Refugee Camp, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa 2.6 Sanitation and Hygiene Project in Gure Shembola Refugee camp, Assosa, Benishangul Gumuz 2.7 Construction of emergency latrines in Gure Shembola 2.8 Household latrine decommissioning & reconstruction, and borehole rehabilitation in Bambassi camp Benishangul- Gumuz Benishangul- Gumuz Benishangul- Gumuz Assosa Assosa Assosa Annual Report 13
SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES OF THE YEAR (2016/17)
LWF STRATEGY The year 2016 marked the first year of the new six-year country strategy. LWF Ethiopia office was guided by the country strategy when developing 2016 and 2017 country annual plans and interventions for sustainable livelihoods, emergency and refugee response. LWF continued to align existing programs with its new country strategy document. As a result of the change in the strategy, LWF Ethiopia eventually phased out projects that were scattered and were beyond its geographic focus. Accordingly, Abaya FSLP implemented in Abaya district Borena zone since 2006, was closed by end of 2015. Hetosa Sustainable Development for Small Scale Farmers Project was also closed by end of 2017. Moreover, LWF piloted the establishment of Regional Coordination Offices (RCO) in regions that have more than two projects with reasonable workload in terms of scope and budget. Hence, Bale and Jijiga RCOs became fully operational. ACCOUNTABILITY LWF Ethiopia launched the Core Humanitarian Standards (CHS) self-assessment process in June 2017. The findings of the assessment were share with LWF staff during the period program review meeting in November 2017. As a result, LWF Ethiopia CHS Improvement Plan was rolled out both LWF Ethiopia Country Office and field offices. The assessment and consequent improvement plan aimed at strengthening LWF s commitment to deliver quality of services and ensure accountability to people affected by crisis. Annual Report 15
PROTECTION LWF Ethiopia partnered with Church of Sweden (CoS) in providing Community Based Psychosocial Support to. CBPS is an approach in which humanitarian relief integrates psychosocial aspects in refugees and hosting communities. to the response, builds on existing coping strategies and seeks to enhance the resilience of individuals and families. As part of this partnership, CoS organized advanced Capacity Building training in Community Based Psychosocial Support (CBPS) Programming and Implementation for staffs of LWF Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti Country Programs as well as Ethiopian Orthodox Church Development Inter Church Aids Commission (EOC-DICAC). The training was a pilot programme initiated by CoS designed to build the organizational CBPS capacity of LWF and EoC-DICAC over a three-year period. The advanced CBPS training staffs was successfully completed on April 27, 2017. The final workshop brought together the Ethiopia and Kenya groups allowing for experience-sharing between LWF Ethiopia, LWF Kenya and DICAC trainees and management. INNOVATION/DIGITALIZATION In April 2016, LWF Ethiopia hosted a Regional Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting (PMER) workshop introducing Newdea Project Center. Newdea is online monitoring and evaluation cloud based software as-a-service (SaaS) all of LWF World Service Country 16 Annual Report
Programs have committed to use for PMER and learning. 34 (7 female) core program and finance staffs of LWF country programs in Eastern Africa including LWF Ethiopia participated in the workshop that served as a capacity building and expertise sharing forum. LWF Ethiopia since then become one of LWF Country Programs that started using the online tool for project designing, reporting, monitoring and evaluating. CLIMATE CHANGE LWF as member of the ACTAlliance participated in the 22nd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 22) Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco. LWF hold side events on looking at how education is a key component in delivering the Paris Agreement. One of LWF Ethiopia s climate sensitive project s are its intervention introducing biogas fuel for household cooking in refugee camp. BEST PRACTICE Considering the higher need for household energy, LWF World Service Ethiopia designed and launched a pilot intervention to address the needs of refugees in an environmentally friendly way. The project focused on increasing awareness on the use of biogas technology for household use particularly cooking, creating access to biogas technology for targeted households and building the capacity of the community in biogas technology and usage. The project sought out to deliver an environmentally friendly and sustainable source of household energy to vulnerable communities. This closely aligns with the countries Growth and Transformation plan (GTP II) that give due attention to climate change and environmental protection through the environmental protection and green economy strategy. It is also in line with one of the pillars of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals which focuses on access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and clean energy. Hence, creating access to environmentally friendly and sustainable energy by applying biogas technology goes well with both national and internationally development goals. The use of biogas energy for household use in a refugee setting has not been tried before. The project implemented by LWF World Service Ethiopia is innovative and pioneering in this regard. In different parts of the country, the technology has been applied and is yielding results. As a learning ground, LWF World Service Ethiopia organized an experience sharing visit to Bahirdar and Gondar area for its project stakeholders. Five biogas plants, constructed by government of Ethiopia in collaboration with SNV, Kindu Trust Ethiopia and Ethiopian Orthodox Church, were visited. Awareness raising about the use of animal dung and human waste to produce biogas was an integral part of the project. Series of discussion were held with the community about the designs of the biogas plants, the communal kitchens and the latrines to be connected to the biogas plant. Construction of the biogas plants was finalized after the support from users both in the host and refugee community. Annual Report 17
The biogas plants use animal dung from the cattle owned by the target groups. In addition to this, human waste from connected latrines will also be source of input. Outcome/Impact Through the use of biogas, the time of cooking kisra has decreased from 40 minutes to 8-10 minutes; there is decrease in the amount of firewood purchased and there is decreased exposure to smoke while cooking. In addition to this, increased in awareness about the uses of biogas, the maintenance of the system, the inputs used for biogas and method of construction has been recorded. The pilot project set out to benefit vulnerable members of the community. Women and girls who are often burdened with household chores including collection of firewood are the main beneficiaries of the project. The use of biogas energy for household cooking decreases the hours spent in collecting firewood and in cooking. This in turn helps women to avoid unnecessary confrontation during firewood collection, reduce the risk for different forms of abuse and reduce the risk to smoke related disease. The time saved from firewood collection increases the time for children to rest and focus on their studies. The latrines being constructed are also considerate of children, elderly people or people with disabilities. From the initially selected beneficiary households 20% of refugee households and 5% of host community households have at least one person with a disability in their household. 18 Annual Report
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
LWF ACTUAL INCOME IN 2016 & 2017 (IN EUROS) 5,131,962 5,064,142 2016 2017 LWF 2016/17 ACTUAL INCOME IN EUR BREAKDOWN BY SECTOR 2016 1,732,630 1,493,532 1,905,800 2017 Sustainable livelihood Drought emergency 1,728,575 1,834,064 1,501,500 Refugee response 20 Annual Report
PARTNERSHIP 27 Participants of the Global Encounter Tour from across Canada organized by Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) visited by the Hetosa Value Chain Project in Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State as well as the Lalibela Food Security Project in North Wello Zone, Amhara Regional State funded by CLWR and CLWR/Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB) respectively from 18 to 29 January 2016. BLAST FROM THE PAST Niels Nikolaisen, LWF Representative from 1979 to 1987 and Hermine Nikolaisen. Hermine and Niels met in Ethiopia and married in Addis Ababa and so the return was also a celebration of their anniversary! Annual Report 21
IN MEMORIAM President Emeritus Dr. Emmanuel Abraham of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, (EECMY) passed away on 22nd of October 2016 at the age of 103. Ahmed Aliyi, who was working for LWF as animal feeding monitor from April 10, 2017 to July 8, 2017 passed away on July 8, 2017 at the age of 26 LWF STAFF 2016: 247 2017: 172 206 male 142 male 3 female in management 3 female in management 30 female 41 female 22 Annual Report
DEDICATION Dear partners thank you for standing with LWF and the people we seek to serve. THE AMITY FOUNDATION Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection EUROPEAN UNION Annual Report 23
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