Strengths & Growth

EMRDA’s organizational strengths:

• It has large constituency at grassroots level especially in the pastoral and remote areas of the rural community,
• There is trust between the communities and the organization
• It is cost effective in reaching the community as religious leaders teach the society while praying.
• The religious leaders who are working with EMRDA are highly accepted among the community.
• It has good relations with the government and donors.
• It is well experienced in implementing the development interventions so that it has a capacity to prepare any type of project proposals.

 EMRDA’s major opportunities for growth:

•  The contemporary global campaign on poverty reduction particularly in rural and pastoral development such as the MDG.
• The government’s rural-centered development plan;
• Large domain of the grass root community represented by Project Advisory Committee (PAC) and Community Management Committee (CMC) of various EMRDA’s interventions;
• Good-will developed with various international & National partner organizations and individuals through holiday and other special occasion disclosing organizational good wishes;