Competency And Target Communities

Competency

Since its foundation in 2010, FIA has focused on issues involving Ethiopia’s women, children and vulnerable group. This has given FIA insight and understanding of vulnerable group needs, issues, and challenges. FIA’s deep expertise stems from innovative and diverse projects. FIA’s core competency is;

• Deep understanding of the complex development issues of Ethiopia’s women and vulnerable group
• Involved in projects that focus on capacity building and livelihood options to insure sustainable positive changes of development of women.
• Activities have consistently intervened aligned with international and national policies and strategies to use the available opportunity that acquire the required change.
• Roll out Core Humanitarian Standards in the organization system that focus on nine commitment such as;
• Humanitarian response is appropriate and relevant.
• Humanitarian response is effective and timely.
• Humanitarian response strengthens local capacities and avoids negative effects.
• Humanitarian response is based on communication, participation and feedback
• Complaints are welcomed and addressed.
• Humanitarian response is coordinated and complementary.
• Humanitarian actors continuously learn and improve.
• Staffs are supported to do their job effectively, and are treated fairly and equitably.
• Resources are managed and used responsibly for their intended purpose.

 Target Communities

FIA’s main targets are orphans, abandoned, HIV+ children and women, Elders, disable and youth. Our target especially includes support for young women. They are hardest hit by the HTP/GBV and HIV/AIDS issues in terms of incidence rate, maternal health, and shouldering the burden of care. As future mothers, young women also influence Ethiopia’s future family units and thus they are critical targets for developmental progress. FIA’s secondary targets are the people of great influence on Ethiopia’s women and youth, namely parents, peers, community groups, local Kebeles, and government policy makers. FIA continues operating on this premise to promote job readiness and leadership skill.

Guide principles

FIA mainly beliefs on the following steer principles through the intervention of its actions.

• Aligned to international commitments and national strategies
• Participatory
• Non-discriminatory
• Focused on results
• Inclusion, Equity and equality
• Decentralization (ADP)
• Continuous learning organization
• Voice of voiceless
• Effective and efficiency
• People Centered/Relationship