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Who We Are

About Youth Ethiopia Action for Resilience and Opportunities (YEARO)

Youth Ethiopia Action for Resilience and Opportunities (YEARO) is a youth-led, non-governmental, non-political, non-profit, independent, and indigenous civil society organization established and operating in Ethiopia. YEARO was formerly known as Every Woman’s Rights and Youth Organization for Community Advancement (EWRYOCA) and continues its mission under the new name with full legal and organizational continuity.

YEARO is headquartered in Jigjiga City, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia, and works to empower youth, women, persons with disabilities, refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities, vulnerable children and families, and underserved communities.

01 - Vision

YEARO envisions an inclusive, resilient, innovative, peaceful, and prosperous Ethiopia where youth, women, persons with disabilities, refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, and vulnerable communities fully realize their rights, potential, and aspirations.

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02 - Mission

YEARO’s mission is to empower youth, women, persons with disabilities, refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, and vulnerable communities through humanitarian action, resilience building, innovation, education, entrepreneurship, protection, advocacy, and inclusive development programmes.

YEARO pursues this mission through community-centered, evidence-based, inclusive, and sustainable approaches that address the root causes of vulnerability, poverty, exclusion, inequality, and humanitarian need.

03 - YEARO Age Group

YEARO is a youth-led organization focused on young people, especially the 18–35 age group. At least 85% of Board and Executive Leadership positions are held by youth aged 18–35 years, ensuring meaningful youth leadership, participation, and representation in governance and development.

Core Values

  • Integrity: We uphold honesty, ethical conduct, professionalism, and fairness in all our actions and decisions.
  • Accountability: We take responsibility for our work, resources, commitments, and the results we deliver to communities, partners, donors, and stakeholders.
  • Transparency: We promote openness, trust, and clear communication in our governance, programmes, partnerships, and financial management.
  • Inclusion and Equality: We ensure the meaningful participation of youth, women, persons with disabilities, refugees, internally displaced persons, returnees, and vulnerable communities without discrimination.
  • Human Rights and Social Justice: We respect, protect, and promote the dignity, rights, freedoms, and equal opportunities of all people.
  • Youth Leadership: We believe in youth-led change and promote the leadership, voice, innovation, and participation of young people aged 18–35 in governance, development, peacebuilding, and community transformation.
  • Innovation and Learning: We encourage creativity, evidence-based action, continuous learning, digital transformation, and locally driven solutions to community challenges.
  • Sustainability: We promote environmentally responsible, community-owned, and long-term development approaches that strengthen resilience and reduce dependency.
  • Community Participation: We work with communities as active partners in identifying needs, designing solutions, implementing programmes, monitoring progress, and sustaining results.
  • Partnership and Collaboration: We value cooperation with communities, civil society organizations, government institutions, development partners, the private sector, academia, and networks.
  • Safeguarding and Protection: We are committed to preventing harm, exploitation, abuse, discrimination, and violence in all our programmes, operations, and partnerships.
  • Respect for Diversity: We recognize and respect Ethiopia’s social, cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographic diversity.
  • Environmental Responsibility: We promote climate resilience, environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, renewable energy, and sustainable natural resource management.

General Objective

The overall objective of YEARO is to promote resilience, inclusion, innovation, sustainable development, and community empowerment through humanitarian, developmental, and rights-based interventions.

Specific Objectives

  1. Provide timely and effective humanitarian assistance during emergencies, disasters, conflicts, displacement, droughts, floods, disease outbreaks, and other crises.
  2. Strengthen protection, resilience, social inclusion, self-reliance, and access to essential services for refugees, returnees, internally displaced persons, and host communities.
  3. Promote safeguarding, protection, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, gender-based violence prevention and response, legal awareness, and community protection systems.
  4. Protect children from abuse, neglect, exploitation, violence, trafficking, child labor, child marriage, and harmful practices.
  1. Promote accessibility, inclusion, equal opportunities, participation, empowerment, and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities.
  2. Strengthen youth leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation, volunteerism, employability, civic engagement, and participation in decision-making.
  3. Improve access to quality education, literacy, digital learning, professional training, leadership development, and lifelong learning.
  4. Equip youth and vulnerable populations with vocational, technical, entrepreneurial, digital, and life skills for employment and self-reliance.
  1. Promote agriculture, food security, climate-smart agriculture, livestock development, irrigation, agribusiness, and nutrition.
  2. 1Advance climate resilience, environmental conservation, biodiversity protection, disaster risk reduction, renewable energy, and sustainable natural resource management.
  3. Promote gender equality, women’s leadership, economic empowerment, protection from violence, and equal participation in development.
  4. Support peacebuilding, dialogue, reconciliation, conflict prevention, tolerance, peaceful coexistence, and community resilience.
  5. Generate evidence through research, assessments, learning documentation, advocacy, and policy engagement.

Jigjiga City, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia | Phone: +251 252 78 0907 | +251 929 510 538 | Email: admin@yearo.org

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