Bale Forest

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

Planting Tomorrow, Children at countryside plant trees for a better future.

Planting Tomorrow

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.

Ethiopian Wolf

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.

Publications

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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

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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.