SMCF Ethiopia - Partners for Change Ethiopia

chosen representatives to lobby on their behalf, and everyone can have a
say in the community conversations that take place regularly, so that the
community can decide on its own priorities for change. With their new
confidence, community leaders have begun to work with local government
to secure the land that they live on, to bring much wanted stability to
marginalised people.
But it’s not just the Negede Woitto people who have benefited. The stories
here are just a sample to illustrate the changes that have taken place, every
day, in Ethiopia. Through the actions of individuals and Community Based
Organisations (CBOs), things are improving for the people of Ethiopia. To
us, they might be quite small improvements, and many people still live in
conditions we would find unacceptable, but to the people of Ethiopia, they
represent real progress and show that, in this case at least, development
really does work.