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Regarding typologies, the findings showed that regional NGOs are the most important NSA in
terms of amount of resource mobilized (57%). More specifically, REST alone has 12 ongoing
projects the total value of which is about 95% of the indicated regional NGO projects. The
resource inputs of the national and international secular NGOs is dwarfed by the amount
mobilized and used by REST to implement the capital intensive and extensive rural food security
projects.
3.3. Zonal Distribution of Ongoing Projects
As shown below (Table 5), a good amount of the financial contributions from NSA went to the
Central Tigray Zone. It is interesting to note that the zone where many NGOs are operational
(Mekele) is the least in the financial value of projects. This illustrates as how the urban-based
social projects are small-scale in nature compared to the rural projects.
Table 5: NSA project finance by zones
No of No of
Zones
Projects NGOs Value of the Projects, Birr
Central 8 3 161,029,651
Southern 13 10 57,442,136
Western 7 6 57,250,313
Eastern 10 5 55,859,482
Mekele 16 15 30,589,197
Regional and multi-zone
projects
12 10 129,899,053
66 492,069,831
3.4. Sectoral Participation
The disaggregated profile of ongoing NGO projects with respect to core sectoral focuses is
illustrated on Table 6, below. Integrated food security programmes, often comprising agricultural
development supports, infrastructures (access roads, irrigation), environmental rehabilitation,
WATSAN, HIV/AIDS, basic education, entrepreneurship, and institutional strengthening, are the
most important participation areas of the NGOs, both in number of projects and total resource
allocated. REST, WVE, AAE, EEC/ADCS, EOC/DICA and EECMY are the lead organizations
involved in this area.
Child development, particularly care and support for OVC, in institutionalized as well as noninstitutionalized
arrangements is the second important participation area of NSA in Tigray. In
this area, on top of the long-established child-support centres of the FBOs (EOC/CFAD and
ECC/ADCS) the innovative and community-based projects of the newly established regional
NGO Human beings Association of Brotherhood (HAB) is fast expanding coverage of NSA
involvement in OVC support.
The level of resource allocation for the other sectoral and cross-cutting areas appears to be small
for two major reasons. In the first place, most of these activities are promoted as component
elements of the integrated rural food security projects and programmes. Secondly, some of the
sectoral projects are implemented by the regional NSA without entering formal project
agreements at regional levels. Hence, resource allocated is not included in the survey. For
example, CBOs like Iddirs, Anti-AIDS and SRH Clubs, and the MBAs are involved in: child
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