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Table 1. TNRS NSA Typologies and size
NSA Typologies and size Examples
24. NGOs = 66
International NGOs = 14 AAE, DKT-Eth, Helvetas, IPAS, MSIE,
MdM, MSF, Panos & MfM
National NGOs = 9 NACID, OSSA, Rado, ERCS
Regional NGOs = 43(5+38) 2 REST, Elshaday, Human Beings Association
of Brotherhood,
25. Regional Development Associations = 1 Tigray Development Association
26. FBOs (national and international) = 8 EOC/DICAC & CYFAD, EECMY,
ECS/ADCS, WVE, SIM
27. Reg. Apex/Networking Organisations = 2 ACSOT, Mekele Children Forum
28. Advocacy and Human rights Organizations
29. Economic and business interest groups
Cooperatives = 1,406 (Rural only) (Refer Table 3)
Chamber of Commerce and Sector Asso. = 1 Mekele Chamber of Comm. & Sector Asso.
30. Trade and labour unions
31. Professional Associations = 8 Tigray Regional Teachers Association
Age, gender, health-status and other
32.
occupation related Associations
Regional Youth Association = 1 Tigray Youth Association
Reg. Associations of/for Women = 7 Tigray Women Asso., Mums for Mums
Reg. Elderly and Disability Asso. = 10 TVDA, ENAB Tigray Branch
Reg. Asso. of PLWHA = 1 SYGA
Reg. Farmers Association = 1 Tigray Farmers Association
33. Free Press;
34. Community based organisations - 152 Iddirs
and other self-help groups
2.2. Distribution of NSA in TNRS
� Most of the CBOs registered by the regional Justice Bureau are from the various urban
centres of the region. Expectedly, those from Mekele are numerous.
� According to the data from the Cooperatives Promotion Agency, there are a total of 1,406
rural cooperatives in the region; thus they are omnipresent in the region.
� The regional membership-based associations (that is Women, Youth and TDA) by default
have members in all kebeles of the region. Moreover, particularly TDA has groupings of its
supporters within Ethiopia as well as abroad, which are primarily engaged in resource
mobilization.
� As per the 2003 law, in all major zonal towns Chambers of Commerce's and Sectoral
Associations are established. Amongst these, it is the Mekele Chamber which is the strongest
and operational.
� Distribution of the 66 ongoing NSA projects 3 is shown on Table 2, overleaf. In terms of
number of NSA Mekele stands first, primarily due to the presence of the social service
organizations, like OSSA, MSIE, ECC/Daughters of Charity, SIM and Elshaday. In the
Central zone only REST, EECMY and ECC/ADCS have project agreements for
2 The 40 are regional NGOs were without operational agreements with the Regional DPP
3 These are projects with agreements known by the regional DPP desk, and include projects of national,
international and regional NGOs, FBOs and development associations.
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