VoCDA

Mission

We exist, To empower poor, women and vulnerable households, To bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation; and promote human dignity for all citizens,

Vision

To see prosperous communities where all community members use their capability and livelihood asset to realize a sustainable livelihood,

Goal

To contribute to the attainment of sustainable social services, food security and community development for the rural and semi-urban poor with sustained environmental management and healthy, literate and prosperous society.

About VoCDA

Vision Community Development Association (VoCDA) is an Ethiopian Residents Charity Organizations, which is engaged in the promotion of people’s self-development focusing on rural and semi-urban poor community who are the most vulnerable to the problems of under development in Urban and rural areas. VoCDA has been established in 2003, & registered with federal CSO agency as local NGO.
• Registration No. 0129.
• Entered in to Operational and project agreements with Federal and regional concerned bureaus.

Message from Executive Director

Desisa Kabeta

Executive Director

How are you all readers and viewers of our website! we have developed this website as a way to make people aware of the services and/or products we are offering, understand why our services are relevant for the needy community, we serve, through different development endeavors and see which of our organization’s services qualities/potentials set our organization special. Moreover, the objectives of the website’s development are:

To increase our outreach capacity to reach more users and donors so that the organization can secure more funding and give more services to the needy people,
To Become a Confident resource of the information that disseminated on our websites to donors, to community in need and development practitioner in the social development sectors
To build our Brand in the development endeavor, through our services to the needy community to whom we are committed. To this end I believe the website is users friendly and easily usable as well.

Generally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the website developer’s firm, VoCDA staffs, and boards who participated throughout the process. Especial thanks go to Plan-International Ethiopia, who cooperates with us in supporting financially to enable us the website development become real.

Achievements

Women supported

150 +

Hectares Recovered

150 +

food Security and Water

150 +

Basic Education

150 +

What Partners say?

VoCDA is a member of CoSAP, organizing women into Self Help Groups in Adami Tulu (ziway-Batu) and Dodata Woreda of Arsi zone in Oromiya regional state. VoCDA is helping over seven thousand (7,000 ) poor women that organized into 266 Self Help Groups(SHGs).

YOSEF AKALU

DIRECTOR - CoSAP

IDH partnered with VOCDA through the Sustainable Landscape program(2015-2023) that operated in the Dembel Shalla sub Basin of Ethiopia. VOCDA implemented 3 different projects in the period 2018-2022 under the thematic are: Restoration and rehabilitation of degraded land and development of alternative livelihoods for communities.

MAHLET SHIBABAW

Senior Program manager, Sustainable Landscapes program

TREE AID has provided a technical and financial support for VoCDA in the implementation of a rural development and environmental rehabilitation project in adamitulu jido komolcha and dugda districts of Oromia regional state.