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IMPACT PROMISE

Our Partners are carefully selected due to their high conservation impact

Appeal Snapshot

Partner:

Population Health and Environment (PHE) Ethiopia

Location:

Ethiopia

Category:
  • Community Support and Development
  • Education
  • Endangered Species
Urgent Appeals:

None currently

Date Founded:

2008

Website:

www.phe-ethiopia.org

Partner Qualifications:
  • Verified Partner
    One of Conservation Allies' staff or trusted advisors has visited this organization and verified its work and impact.
  • Legally Constituted
    This organization is formally constituted and is a legally recognized non-profit in its country of origin.
  • Effective Impact
    We recognize this Partner for their tremendous efforts to make a difference for wildlife and local communities, as well as welcome technical support from Conservation Allies to improve and scale up their impact.

About PHE Ethiopia

The Population Health and Environment Ethiopia Consortium (PHE) was founded in 2008 with 44 members and later re-registered as a consortium of civil society organizations in 2019. The Consortium's mission is to promote a comprehensive, integrated, and multi-sectoral PHE developmental approach in Ethiopia. Presently, PHE consists of 99 member organizations, comprising both national and international CSOs/NGOs. Working alongside their members and partners, they are carrying out various projects and programs, impacting over 2 million direct and indirect beneficiaries. As a local CSO consortium organization, PHE plays a pivotal role as a bridge between many diverse actors particularly in advocating for the improvement of the civil space and
strengthening the watchdog role of CSOs in their rights. Their ability to partner with
communities, CSOs, Universities, government ministries, the private sector, and the
media is making us better positioned for a comprehensive approach to sustainable
development. PHE in partnership with other partners like USAID is working to push
important initiatives forward such as the localization agenda.

VISION: See Ethiopia with sustainable resource use, resilient ecosystems, sustainable
livelihoods, and a healthy population.
MISSION: To contribute to sustainable development in Ethiopia by promoting and
enhancing the integration of population, health, and the environment through multi-
sectoral approaches.

VALUES:
Respect for Human Well-being and Nature; Inclusiveness; Equity and Equality;
Accountability; Community Participation, Empowerment, and Ownership

  • Goal 1: Contribute to socioeconomic development and productive society
    through harnessing demographic dividend and market-oriented diversification of
    livelihood base
  • Goal 2: To contribute to reproductive, maternal, and child health outcomes at
    national and international level
  • Goal 3: Contribute to resilience building to climate change, conservation of
    nature, and environmental sustainability at the national and global level
  • Goal 4: Strengthen the consortium to be vibrant and provide standard
    organizational development and capacity-strengthening services to CSOs in Ethiopia
  • Goal 5: Contribute to gender equality and social inclusion outcomes
  • Goal 6: To contribute to inclusive development and democratization through
    integrating human rights, humanitarian response, and peace-building interventions in
    development actions

Their Challenges

The key challenges to nature in Ethiopia are:

  • The limited values and attention to nature
  • Limited resources allocated for nature conservation
  • Limited harmonization of actions of the different sectors (agriculture, water,
    conservation and so on)
  • The smallholder and other investment land expansion
  • Poor knowledge and awareness gap about nature and biodiversity
  • Poor coordination between the different sectors
  • Poor enforcement of legal frameworks
  • Poor community level engagement and benefit sharing mechanism
  • Youth unemployment and lack of proper planning

Their Approach

PHE has seven strategic focus areas: Health; Population, Youth Engagement and Livelihood; Environment and Climate Change; Gender and
Social Inclusion; Human Rights, Democracy and Humanitarian Response; and Organizational Development and Capacity Strengthening; and Research,
knowledge Management and Advocacy. All the seven strategic focus areas are structured with consideration of achieving optimum results by exploring the values of integrated interventions which identifies the interfaces of each thematic areas with other sectors thereby exploring ways of creating synergy and complementary of the actions. There are different activities and actions identified under the different thematic focus areas of the organization. The PHEEC’s program design takes the multi-sector integrated approaches into consideration.

The current initiatives of PHEEC have covered key conservation sites and biodiversity hotspot areas such as Biosphere Reserve sites, parks, forest sites, wetlands and community conservation sites. The key specific activities related to conservation are focused on strengthening the capacities of government and community structures for conservation of wildlife like Swayne's hartebeest and other important biodiversity including forests. In all of their conservation actions, they promote multi-sector integrated and shared management practices. They also consider social safeguarding and also the well-being of the local communities by supporting them to get benefits out of conservation actions thereby contributing sustainable management of biodiversity.

Why They Need Your Help

Donations to PHE will be used to improve conservation practices in Ethiopia, focusing on
key strategic and policy-level actions. The funds will support these actions at the grassroots level with aims to chance policy for the benefit of the people and environment.