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� Next to NGOs, the ODA is an important GONGO operating in 110 woredas with primary
focus on education, reproductive health and water supply projects directly implemented or
through the autonomous branches which are functional in their respective zone
administrations;
� In addition to ODA and its branches, there are also a large number of membership based
development associations including Abdi Boru, Abdi Guddina, Abdi Jiregna, Tullu Bollo,
Jarso self-help association, etc which are organized in different zones and woredas of the
region;
� Apart from regionally registered development associations, there are also associations of
gender, age, health-status and also associations related to occupation constituting a large
number of elders and/or retired civil servants, disability groups, women, etc;
� Cooperatives are the other important NSA typology in which there is dynamism in social
mobilization, growing and expanding scale and/or scope of activities undertaken.
Horizontally, cooperatives have grown significantly with about 3,198 basic cooperatives
having a total membership size of 1,227,686 and nearly 134.3 million capital available;
� Activity wise, multi – purpose cooperatives are the leading type and are followed by
mineral (gold, sand, aggregate, etc), irrigation users and dairy farmers cooperatives in terms
of membership size and capital;
� A more recent phenomenon in cooperative development is the growth of cooperative union
that include Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union that exports organic coffee to
major importing countries in Europe, North America and Oceania. Currently, the union has
grown significantly in terms of membership size; total capital and the annual export
earnings from a large volume of organic coffee and also washed and/or dry coffee that it
export annually.
3. Profile and distribution of NSA at Regional Level
3.1. Profile of NSA
Table 1. NSA typologies and size in Oromia national Regional State
NSA Categories Examples
2. NGOs = 209
International NGOs = 53 Goal, Carter Centre, IMC, Action Aid, CARE, FHI,
MFM, SCUSA, SC Denmark, OXFAM GB, SCUK,
Farm Africa, SOS Infants, etc
National NGOs = 156 HUNDEE, OSRA, Oromo Self-Help Org.,
RVCWA, LEM Ethiopia, Waqo Gutu Foundation,
ISAPSO, JeCCDO,
3. Regional Development Associations = ODA & the 17 zone associations
66