Our Approach
WEEMA partners locally to improve people’s well-being. We work towards five key goals- ensure clean water and sanitation, enhance education, empower women and marginalized people, strengthen health systems, and achieve food security. We also address three essential cross-cutting issues- gender, inclusion and climate.
At the center of our holistic approach is community wellbeing. To us, community wellness represents a strong public sector (schools, hospitals, water services, etc.) along with decent livelihoods, equal opportunity, climate resiliency, engaged citizenry, and government accountability.
WEEMA’s 5 programmatic goals: ensure clean water and sanitation, enhance education, empower women and marginalized people, strengthen health systems, and achieve food security. We invest in 18 projects designed to accomplish these 5 goals. Each of these projects were identified as priorities by the communities themselves.
In addition, we incorporate three cross-cutting issues across our work: gender, inclusion, and climate. These cross-cutting issues address equity, demographic shifts, and climate change, issues which are all consistent with our values as well as deeply relevant to the Ethiopian context.
Lastly is the “how” we do this work. WEEMA is grounded in the principles of holistic, community-led development for Ethiopians by Ethiopians. We work hand-in hand with communities at every step- from conceptualizing needs to building sustainable solutions to identifying areas for improvement. Through this process, we believe citizens will become more engaged and hold their local government officials accountable.
WEEMA’s 5 programmatic goals: ensure clean water and sanitation, enhance education, empower women and marginalized people, strengthen health systems, and achieve food security. We invest in 18 projects designed to accomplish these 5 goals. Each of these projects were identified as priorities by the communities themselves.
In addition, we incorporate three cross-cutting issues across our work: gender, inclusion, and climate. These cross-cutting issues address equity, demographic shifts, and climate change, issues which are all consistent with our values as well as deeply relevant to the Ethiopian context.
Lastly is the “how” we do this work. WEEMA is grounded in the principles of holistic, community-led development for Ethiopians by Ethiopians. We work hand-in hand with communities at every step- from conceptualizing needs to building sustainable solutions to identifying areas for improvement. Through this process, we believe citizens will become more engaged and hold their local government officials accountable.