East Action Organization - EAO

19/10/2026

🌍 INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION | EAST ACTION ORGANIZATION (EAO), ETHIOPIA 🇪🇹

🏛️ EAO OFFICIALLY INCLUDED IN AN INTERNATIONAL OPCW CONFERENCE DECISION

East Action Organization (EAO) is pleased to announce an important milestone in its international institutional engagement.

EAO has been officially included in a decision adopted by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), an independent international intergovernmental organization that works closely with the United Nations.

📜 OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY REFERENCE

✅ Issuing Organization: Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)

✅ Official Decision Number: C-30/DEC.4

✅ Document Title: Attendance and Participation by Non-Governmental Organizations at the Thirtieth Session of the Conference of the States Parties

✅ Date of Decision: 24 November 2025

✅ Conference: 30th Conference of the States Parties (CSP-30)

✅ Conference Dates: 24–28 November 2025

✅ Location: The Hague, Kingdom of the Netherlands 🇳🇱

✅ Organization: East Action Organization (EAO), Ethiopia 🇪🇹

✅ Official NGO Listing Number: 42

✅ Document Reference: Annex, Page 2

🌐 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR EAO?

This official decision confirms that East Action Organization was among the 132 non-governmental organizations approved for attendance and participation in OPCW CSP-30.

For EAO, this represents an important step in strengthening its international institutional profile and engagement with global discussions concerning:

🌍 International peace and security

🕊️ Peacebuilding and conflict prevention

🛡️ Protection of civilians and vulnerable communities

🏥 Public health and humanitarian preparedness

🌱 Environmental protection and chemical safety

🤝 International cooperation and civil society participation

This recognition is particularly meaningful for EAO as an Ethiopian national civil society organization committed to humanitarian action, sustainable development, community resilience, and peacebuilding.

Our inclusion in this official international decision provides documented evidence of EAO's eligibility to participate in CSP-30 and creates opportunities for future international engagement.

EAO remains committed to strengthening cooperation, promoting human dignity, protecting vulnerable populations, and contributing to a more peaceful, resilient, and sustainable world.

📚 OFFICIAL OPCW REFERENCE

Decision: C-30/DEC.4

Date: 24 November 2025

EAO: Annex, Page 2, Entry No. 42

Official document: Available through the OPCW website.

EAST ACTION ORGANIZATION (EAO)
Jigjiga | Addis Ababa | Ethiopia 🇪🇹

15/10/2026

🌍💧 GIVINGTUESDAY 2026 | HELP RESTORE SAFE WATER FOR DEGEHABUR FAMILIES

Safe Water. Healthier Families. Stronger Communities.

Every family deserves access to safe, clean, and reliable drinking water. Yet vulnerable families in Degehabur, Somali Region, Ethiopia, continue to face serious water access challenges.

A damaged community water system urgently needs rehabilitation to help restore this essential service.

This GivingTuesday, December 1, 2026, East Action Organization (EAO) invites individuals, friends, partners, organizations, and compassionate supporters worldwide to join our mission to restore safe water for Degehabur families.

🎯 Our Fundraising Goals:

💧 Overall Project Goal: $20,000

💙 GivingTuesday 2026 Target: $1,000

🤝 Target: At least 10 generous donors

Your generosity can make a difference!

Whether you contribute $10, $25, $50, $100, or any amount, your donation will help us move closer to rehabilitating the damaged water system and restoring reliable access to safe drinking water.

Safe water is more than a basic necessity. It supports:

✅ Healthier children and families
✅ Reduced water-related health risks
✅ Improved dignity for women and girls
✅ Stronger and more resilient communities
✅ A healthier and more sustainable future

❤️ EVERY DONATION MATTERS. EVERY ACT OF GENEROSITY BRINGS HOPE.

🌍 DONATE NOW THROUGH GLOBALGIVING:

Support Our GivingTuesday 2026 Fundraiser

📢 Can't donate? You can still make a difference!

Please share this fundraising appeal with your friends, family, colleagues, professional networks, and organizations.

Together, we can transform compassion into action and help restore safe water for vulnerable families in Degehabur.

This GivingTuesday, let's give the gift of safe water, dignity, health, and hope.

With sincere appreciation,

Dr. Siraj Aden Hassen
Vice Executive Director
East Action Organization (EAO)
Ethiopia

Help Restore Safe Water for Degehabur Families Access to safe water is essential for health, dignity, and a better future. Yet families in Degehabur, Ethiopia, continue to face serious water shortages because a damaged community water system cannot provide a reliable supply. This GivingTuesday 2026,...

14/10/2026

HELP RESTORE SAFE WATER FOR DEGEHABUR FAMILIES!

This GivingTuesday 2026, East Action Organization (EAO) invites you to help families in Degehabur, Ethiopia, access safe drinking water.

💚 Every donation makes a difference!

🌍 Support our GlobalGiving Project #78508:

Donate Here

Together, we can bring safe water to families in need!

12/10/2026

🏆 EAST ACTION ORGANIZATION (EAO) CELEBRATES THREE GLOBALGIVING RECOGNITIONS AND SUPERSTAR STATUS!

A Major Milestone in Our Journey Toward Organizational Excellence, Accountability, and Community Impact

🇪🇹 Jigjiga, Ethiopia | October 2026

East Action Organization (EAO) is delighted to announce an important milestone in its institutional development and international recognition.

Our organization has earned three prestigious recognition badges displayed on its official GlobalGiving nonprofit profile:

🟠 Vetted (Urur La Hubiyey oo La Xaqiijiyey)

🟣 Top Ranked (Urur Darajo Sare Leh)

🟢 Effective Nonprofit (Urur Samafal oo Wax-ku-ool ah)

In addition to these three recognitions, EAO has achieved ⭐ SUPERSTAR STATUS, with 125 approved GlobalGiving Rewards points as of October 11, 2026.

These achievements represent important progress in our continuing efforts to strengthen organizational credibility, transparency, accountability, institutional effectiveness, and meaningful community engagement.

🟠 1. Vetted (Urur La Hubiyey oo La Xaqiijiyey)

A Recognition of Organizational Credibility

GlobalGiving's Vetted recognition confirms that East Action Organization has successfully completed the platform's nonprofit due diligence and eligibility review.

This recognition is particularly significant because it demonstrates that EAO has satisfied GlobalGiving's requirements for participation as a nonprofit fundraising partner.

For EAO, this milestone strengthens our ability to demonstrate organizational legitimacy and build confidence among international donors, development partners, philanthropic institutions, and individual supporters.

🟣 2. Top Ranked (Urur Darajo Sare Leh)

Recognition of Organizational Engagement and Performance

The Top Ranked badge reflects EAO's standing within GlobalGiving's nonprofit recognition system.

It highlights our continued participation in activities that strengthen organizational learning, effectiveness, and engagement.

For a growing Ethiopian civil society organization, this recognition is an encouraging milestone in our efforts to build institutional capacity and increase our visibility within international development networks.

🟢 3. Effective Nonprofit (Urur Samafal oo Wax-ku-ool ah)

A Commitment to Continuous Learning and Institutional Improvement

The Effective Nonprofit badge reflects EAO's commitment to strengthening organizational systems through GlobalGiving's learning and effectiveness activities.

Our institutional development efforts include:

✅ Financial management and organizational sustainability.

✅ Governance, leadership, and accountability.

✅ Safeguarding and protection.

✅ Monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning.

✅ Strategic planning and organizational development.

✅ Community participation and inclusive programming.

These efforts support our ambition to become an increasingly effective, accountable, and community-responsive organization.

⭐ 4. SUPERSTAR STATUS — AN ADDITIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Beyond the three public recognition badges, East Action Organization has achieved Superstar status within GlobalGiving's Rewards program.

With 125 approved Rewards points, this status reflects our ongoing engagement with GlobalGiving's organizational learning and effectiveness opportunities.

For EAO, Superstar status represents encouragement to continue improving our systems, strengthening partnerships, and advancing our mission.

🌱 Who We Are

East Action Organization is a women-led and youth-focused Ethiopian nonprofit organization, established in 2019 and committed to supporting vulnerable and underserved communities.

Our work encompasses humanitarian assistance, climate change adaptation, pastoralist resilience, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), health and nutrition, education, livelihoods, women's empowerment, youth development, protection, peacebuilding, and sustainable development.

We work toward a future in which vulnerable communities have equitable access to opportunities, essential services, dignity, resilience, and sustainable livelihoods.

💧 Turning Recognition Into Community Impact

While these recognitions are important institutional achievements, our ultimate measure of success remains the positive change we help create in people's lives.

Through our GlobalGiving fundraising initiative, Restore Safe Water for Degehabur Families, EAO seeks to mobilize support for communities facing water insecurity and humanitarian challenges in Ethiopia's Somali Region.

We invite individuals, foundations, humanitarian organizations, development partners, and the wider international community to join us in supporting sustainable, community-led solutions.

💧 Support our safe water initiative:

Restore Safe Water for Degehabur Families

🙏 Our Appreciation

We extend our sincere appreciation to GlobalGiving for providing opportunities for nonprofit learning, organizational development, and international fundraising.

We also thank EAO's Board of Directors, management team, staff, volunteers, partners, community representatives, and supporters for their continued dedication.

These recognitions belong to everyone contributing to our shared mission.

🤝 Our Message to International Partners

We welcome collaboration with humanitarian agencies, international NGOs, foundations, research institutions, development organizations, and philanthropic partners committed to strengthening locally led development in Ethiopia.

Together, we can transform organizational recognition into stronger partnerships, sustainable solutions, and lasting community impact.

🌐 EAO Website: www.eastaction.org

🏆 Verify Our GlobalGiving Recognitions: EAO Official GlobalGiving Profile

📧 Contact: [email protected]

EAST ACTION ORGANIZATION (EAO)
Empowering Communities • Strengthening Resilience • Advancing Sustainable Development

11/10/2026

We’re pleased to share that East Action Organization (EAO) has officially joined AfriLabs! 🇪🇹🌍

This membership connects us with a community of African innovation hubs working across technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.

We are delighted to share our AfriLabs membership certificate, welcome graphic and network map, where EAO is listed under Ethiopia. We have also received the AfriLabs Hubs Welcome Guide to support our participation in the network.

As a women-led civil society organization, EAO sees this as an opportunity to bring community perspectives into conversations about innovation and explore how technology can respond to the everyday challenges people face.

We look forward to learning from fellow members and exploring partnerships that expand opportunities for young people and women, strengthen digital inclusion and support resilient communities in Ethiopia.

Our interests include digital skills, youth entrepreneurship, women’s economic empowerment and community-led solutions for climate adaptation and sustainable livelihoods. We are particularly keen to explore approaches that reach underserved pastoralist and rural communities.

Thank you, AfriLabs, for welcoming EAO and providing these membership and onboarding materials. We’re excited to contribute our community experience, exchange ideas and work together on practical solutions.

We invite fellow AfriLabs members, innovators and development partners to connect with us and explore opportunities for collaboration.

11/10/2026

Ahead of the International Day of the Girl Child (October 11), UNESCO’s new report shows that child marriage and early pregnancy continue to jeopardize progress in girls’ education.

While gender gaps in education have narrowed and the share of girls married before 18 have decreased globally, very few girls return to school after giving birth in some regions, underscoring the need to end child marriage, prevent early pregnancies, and guarantee young mothers’ right to continue their education.

Read the full press release: https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/gender-gaps-education-narrow-globally-yet-early-marriage-remains-major-barrier-girls-education-new

05/10/2026

EAO Weekly News
Growing Visibility, Expanding Opportunities

Jigjiga, Ethiopia | October 2026

East Action Organization (EAO) is experiencing growing regional and international visibility, reflected in increasing interest in the organization’s work, experience and potential for collaboration.

This emerging trend represents an important stage in EAO’s institutional development—from primarily seeking opportunities to increasingly attracting interest, connections and opportunities.

The growing engagement reflects EAO’s expanding institutional credibility, networks and readiness to collaborate with organizations and institutions working toward shared humanitarian and development goals.

For EAO, visibility is not simply about recognition. It creates opportunities to strengthen partnerships, exchange knowledge, mobilize resources and bring greater attention to the priorities, experiences and locally led solutions of pastoralist and underserved communities.

As EAO continues to strengthen its institutional presence, its focus remains clear: turning greater visibility and stronger connections into meaningful partnerships and lasting community impact.

Women-Led. Locally Driven. Building Resilient Communities.

05/10/2026

East Action Organization Recognized in the Women’s Health Awards 2026
We are pleased to announce that East Action Organization (EAO) has been recognized in the Global Health & Pharma (GHP) Women’s Health Awards 2026 with two distinctions:
🏆 Best Women-Led Pastoralist Community Development NGO 2026 – Ethiopia
🏆 Humanitarian Impact Award 2026 – Ethiopia
These recognitions mark an important milestone for EAO, acknowledging our work with women, pastoralist communities and vulnerable populations, as well as our contribution to humanitarian action and community development in Ethiopia.
For EAO, this recognition brings greater international visibility, stronger institutional credibility and new opportunities for partnerships and community impact. Importantly, EAO will appear in GHP’s official Women’s Health Awards 2026 winners listing when the results are published, providing a public and independently accessible record of the recognition.
Most importantly, this achievement helps bring greater attention to the humanitarian and development priorities of the communities we serve.
We dedicate this achievement to our Board, staff, volunteers, partners, supporters and communities, whose collective efforts continue to make our work possible.
We sincerely thank Health & Pharma for this recognition. The official GHP Women’s Health Awards 2026 online announcement is scheduled for December 2026, when EAO will share the official winner listing and further details.
Women-Led. Locally Driven. Building Resilient Communities.

20/09/2026

East Action Organization Joins CYMG UNEP as an Official Organizational Member

East Action Organization (EAO) is pleased to announce its official acceptance as an organizational member of the Children and Youth Major Group to the United Nations Environment Programs(CYMG UNEP).

This marks EAO’s third significant international network membership achievement following organizational review and due-diligence processes, alongside its full memberships in CIVICUS and Global Giving.

Through CYMG UNEP, EAO looks forward to contributing experience from Ethiopia, particularly the Somali Region, and strengthening collaboration on youth participation, climate resilience, environmental sustainability, and locally led action.

18/09/2026

UN Women Mission Consultation at EAO
East Action Organization (EAO) was pleased to host the UN Women mission team for a bilateral consultation at its Jigjiga office on 16 September 2026.

Dr. Nejat Nejib Aden, Executive Director of EAO, welcomed the mission team and highlighted EAO’s commitment to gender-responsive, safe, accountable, and locally led humanitarian action.

The consultation focused on the reactivation of the sub-national Gender in Humanitarian Action (GiHA) Working Group alongside the PSEA Network, including the participation of local and women-led organizations in humanitarian coordination, local capacity, and focal-point engagement.