Integrated Women's Development Organization

25/02/2026

15/11/2025

sad reality

15/10/2025

by Young Farmer

12/10/2025

Degraded Land Restoration & It's Sustainable Benefit

Land Degradation is the serious problem that is responsible for climate change and the resulting livelihood problems , land in the state of degradation aggravate desertification ,disease & pest outbreak , poverty and food insecurity and so on
The Cause of land degradation can be several but human inductive degradation is common ,this is because of improper use of natural resources .communities forced to misuse the natural resource mainly because of the ''No choice for Survival '' situation resulted by the Global climate change due to high emission from pollutant heavy industries worldwide . in our case climate change distort the rain pattern and the lives of all farming communities became difficult ,income from farming activities as a means of survival shift to forest & products , the increasing green house gas emission increase the ecosystem destruction and resulted in the current high degradation , green house gas emission and its impact still exist forcing the community to distract their own habitat .
currently many efforts and interventions are carried out by different bodies to restore the degraded ecosystem ,communities also well oriented about the importance of restoration ,there are many effective restoration activities implemented in many parts of Ethiopia & sub Saharan countries .
IWDO with Green Ethiopia Foundation and partners also working on Land restoration and Nature based solution for climate change mitigation and Livelihood development activities . commitment , innovativeness ,participatory ,budget efficient and community based approach are some of our tools for our success .
to make our success sustainable the visions circle of climate change ,poverty and degradation should be broken by implementing carbon credit and livelihood development activities ,we successfully restored over 1250 ha of communal and farm lands by implementing nature based solutions ,active participation of the community mainly Women's and youths , the one thing it seems challenging will be the increasing climate change and poor support for the community until they are fully enable to adapt and mitigate climate change managing the restored ecosystem.
below the 5 years restoration work carried out by IWDO ,Green Ethiopia Foundation and its Partners in Sidama Region Dara

12/06/2025

07/06/2025

Picture on the Top July 2021 Community members after their daily Soil and water conservation and Plantation Work at Ejersa Water shade of Sidama Region Dara Wereda , Ethiopia. The picture at the Bottom May 2025 almost 4 years ,The community after their daily seedling management , plantation and Conservation work .the change is very surprising and it changes the degraded dry land to greener ,full of bio diversity and foundation for endangered/ Red list indigenous tree . the work is done by IWDO,Green Ethiopia Foundation and it's Partners ! Communities participation and Green Ethiopia 's Support are the key elements for the successful Work !

10/05/2025

Nature Restoration is the Key Solution for the Current Climate Change Problems and it's Complicated Outcomes those Seriously Affect The Livelihood of the Community, Our Organization IWDO and FGE (Foundation Green Ethiopia) and Partners are Working To Solve The Problem and improve the Livelihood of the Community By implementing Integrated Measures With The Core Element Of Nature Restoration. Our Effectiveness is the result of thise innovative idea and Community Based approach

07/05/2025

Great Support for Our Community to achieve Family Prosperity on Food Security
1200 farmers participated on INSET (false banana)plantation this is part of our livelihood development activity . This drought resistance multipurpose seedlings plays a vital roll on developing resilient agriculture,value chain and ecosystem conservation above all it reduce food security problem of the community.
We give special and heartfelt thanks for Green Ethiopia Foundation ,ECOSIA and stackholders
We also give special thanks for Honorable MR Kurt for his love ,care and support to Our Community. God bless You ,finally we thanks our community, administrative bodies and stackholders for the kind cooperation to our afforestation activities.

29/11/2024

Everybody loves papaya, but most people don’t realize how valuable its sap is… 💬👀