Sheksheko Fall

Bale Forest

Participatory Mapping

Participatory mapping refers to the act of facilitating ground for local community members to come together and put their indigenous spatial knowledge on a map in a way they can understand and use it as a spring board way to solve their social and economic problems. As such it mainly deals with Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) at the community level.

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Environmental Education- SEGNI (Social Empowerment through Group Nature Interaction)

Enviromental Education

SEGNI in Oromiffa, one of the widely spoken languages in Ethiopia, means “seed”. Seed, for the agrarian rural community is a traditionally well-respected thing as it signifies continuity of generation. The acronym SEGNI, on the other hand is a program designed by MELCA to revitalize the transfer of traditional ecological knowledge and culture to the youth in schools.

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Mountain Nyala

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Building-Ecosystem-Resilience

Conservation of existing forest coverage and forest bio-diversity and rehabilitation of degraded environment is among the engagement areas of MELCA.

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Environmental Advocacy

MELCA employs different approaches to work with the local community at the grass root level for conservation and rehabilitation of forest, mountain and agriculture bio-diversity of the country.

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Environmental Education- SEGNI

SEGNI in Oromiffa, one of the widely spoken languages in Ethiopia, means seed. Seed, for the agrarian rural community is a traditionally well-respected thing as it signifies continuity of generation.

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Income Generating Activities

Income Generating Activities are either farm or off farm activities undertaken by beneficiaries with the view to generating additional income to help them improve their living.

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Participatory Mapping

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MELCA, feeling the gab with nature

MELCA

MELCA, revitalizing the missing links! MELCA-Ethiopia formerly known, as MELCA Mahiber is a non-governmental organization registered under the Charities and Societies Agency of Ethiopia with a certificate no. 3408 as an Ethiopian resident charity.

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Supporting Conservation of Farmers’ Seed Varieties

13 Feb, 13

What are Farmers’ Seed Varieties? Farmers’ seed varieties are crop species, which are developed by natural processes, by adaptation to the natural and cultural environment in which they live. Farmers have selected, domesticated and put in use their crop varieties

Media briefing

12 Feb, 13

Community Based Agro-biodiversity Management (CBAM), MELCA-Ethiopia Program
Recently, a group of filmmakers was at Ejere kebele, in Lome woreda, Eastern Showa Zone of Oromia Regional State. The group had a visit to the kebele to document the story of how

Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve

11 Feb, 13

Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve Sheka Forest is found in Sheka zone of the SNNPR. It covers a unique bio-geographic unit in the area, extending from cold and very wet highlands bordering Illubabor zone of Oromia regional state and Kafa zone

Melca Sheka brochure

11 Feb, 13

Why and when did MELCA start a project in Sheka
Sheka is one of the few places in Ethiopia endowed with immense cultural and biological resources. A significant proportion of the few remaining afro-montane forest coverage of the country is

Forests of Sheka

10 May, 11

This book is the first product of MELCA Mahiber's engagement in research and advocacy in sustainable management of environment and conservation of indigenous knowledge and culture. click her to download the pdf file

Latest News

MELCA Ethiopia Announced as Winner of ‘Educating Africa’ Award

Wednesday, 24 April 2013 07:02

MELCA Ethiopia has been named as the organisation with the most entrepreneurial approach to education in Ethiopia in the Educating Africa Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education.

With over 350 entries from all over Africa, MELCA Ethiopia has done exceptionally well to be named a country winner in the competition. It’s unique and entrepreneurial approach to education meant that it caught the judges’ attention even despite this being the most competitive competition to date. This is the fifth time that the Pan African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education have been run by UK-based international development charity, Teach A Man To Fish.

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A Glorious Day in Sheka

Thursday, 07 February 2013 11:53
The road to Masha, the town of Sheka Zone in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), has been busy for a couple of days during the end of January 2013. Many people from Addis Ababa, Hawassa, the capital of SNNPR, and zones neighboring with Sheka were traveling to the small town of Sheka Zone to attend an occasion to be celebrated on the 28^th of January 2013.
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Aba Dire: A sacred tree of Ula Foata Community

Wednesday, 03 October 2012 07:20
“Aba dire is our life. It is our culture and identity. We pray for peace and stability to our God under this tree. It is the shade under which we share our happiness in times of prosperity and our sorrows during adverse times. Now we are losing this tree also because of the outlaws and you, who are reluctant to enforce the law to control criminals. Our survival is being endangered” this is a quotation from what an elder of Ula Foata community said.
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