Our Mission
To provide humanitarian assistance, promote sustainable development, and advocate for the protection and realization of human rights.
Our Vision
Empowering communities, upholding human dignity, and fostering sustainable development for a just and equitable world.
Thematic areas
Food Security
HRO works in the Food Security and Nutrition sectors to promote sustainable food practices and enhance food availability throughout the year. Our initiatives include promoting food processing and preservation, introducing conditional food assistance to incentivize community infrastructure rehabilitation, and supporting climate-smart agriculture in drought-prone areas. We also focus on researching crops that are resilient to climate shocks, improving resilience to uneven or erratic rainfall through the expansion of irrigation and water harvesting systems, and supporting agricultural initiatives that empower women, as they are disproportionately affected by drought. These efforts aim to build stronger, more resilient communities capable of withstanding and adapting to environmental challenges.
Health
In light of these challenges, HRO Strategic plan for emergency and development health care services aims to build on the existing efforts of the Ethiopian health care system. This plan outlines strategic goals and specific activities designed to enhance the system’s capacity to respond to emergencies and foster sustainable development in health care delivery. By aligning with national health priorities and leveraging community involvement, we aim to achieve significant improvements in health outcomes and service delivery in our target communities. HRO's Emergency and Development Health plan focuses on delivering comprehensive primary health care services. Our approach integrates emergency response and sustainable development initiatives to ensure communities receive timely and effective medical care.
Education
Creating an annual strategic plan for Education in Emergencies (EiE) and development involves several key steps to ensure that the plan is comprehensive, actionable, and aligned with the goals of providing quality education in crisis-affected areas.
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
HRO ensures that the Ethiopian population, especially women, children, adolescent girls, and vulnerable groups, have equitable access to safely managed water supply and sanitation services, end open defecation, and adopt appropriate hygiene practices, including menstrual health and hygiene, in households, communities and institutions in rural and urban areas. The Holistic Relief Organization (HRO) is actively working to support communities in Ethiopia by enhancing access to basic water and sanitation services.
Protection
The humanitarian crises distinctly affect women and girls economically and in practices related to sociocultural norms, beliefs, and behaviors. The legal, institutional, and policy environment for the equal protection of genders is improving, though, more work is required to enforce them as some gender equality gains of the past decades are declining due to slow implementation in a context of multi-layered vulnerabilities due to often overlapping shocks.
Gender Based Violence
The HRO will work with protection stakeholders, community-based structures and non-protection actors to identify the most vulnerable ones and address their protection needs.
Emergency Shelter / Non-Food Items (ES/NFI)
The HRO will support to the population's needs, considering displacement status (IDPs, returnees, and affected population within the community), settlement type, weather conditions, potential vulnerabilities, and opportunities to provide efficient responses.
Food Security and Livelihoods
Given the situation, the humanitarian community is urgently requesting support to bolster the agriculture sector, aiming to enhance food security and livelihood activities.
Peace Buildings and Conflict Resolution
HRO works toward a secure free and peaceful nation in the country. Attaining this is however dependent upon a process that seeks to provide all the stakeholders with an opportunity to actively participate in a broad based peace building and conflict resolution process.
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