Company Profile

Company Description:

Partners in the Horn of Africa (PiHA) is a small non-denominational, registered Canadian charity, founded in 2002. It has offices in Canada (Enderby, BC) and Ethiopia (Addis Ababa). The organization implements community-based development projects exclusively in Ethiopia. We work with both rural and urban communities, focusing our efforts and investments in areas of unmet needs. Our projects respond to community requests, addressing a wide range of needs including education, child protection, basic infrastructure, water and sanitation, gender equality, food security, natural resource management, and sustainable livelihoods.

PiHA follows two basic principles: (a) all projects are proposed by the community or Ethiopian civil society partners, which has to contribute at least 15% of the total project cost. Our Ethiopian partners play an essential role in project design, decision-making, implementation, and monitoring. (b) 100% of any donation to PiHA goes directly toward project costs in Ethiopia. Administrative costs, kept to a minimal level, are covered by Friends of the Horn of Africa, a separately funded sister charity which is also managed from the Enderby office. PiHA has completed over 250 projects since its founding and manages roughly 60 active projects at any one time. Current geographic areas of concentration are Amhara Region, Oromiya Region, and Addis Ababa.