MahibereHiwot for Social Development (MSD) was established in 1999 by few volunteer youth who were concerned and hence aspired to contribute their part in the national effort to combat the spread of the HIV epidemic. It has been registered as a local NGO by the Ministry of Justice followed by re-registration as an Ethiopian Resident Charity. Given its beginning, a…
• Enhance board members functional engagement in key strategic issues
• Strengthen our systems and internal capacity to achieve program priorities
• Grow and diversify our funding bases, partnerships and linkages.
• Information, communication and knowledge management
• Improve capacity to assess, design, implement monitor and evaluate youth and child centered health, education, social mobilization and economic strengthening activities
• Enhance community and stakeholders participation in key program design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation activities
To see youths and children achieve their greatest potential and actively participate in the socio-economic development of the country
Work with stakeholders in identifying needs and providing supports and services to equip youth and children with education, skills and assets to access opportunities and become agents of change within their communities.
Integrity
Transparency
Accountability
Partnership
Volunteerism
Diversity
Care for Environment
Health
Education
Child Development
Migration and Trafficking
Environmental Protection
Livelihood & Social Mobilization
Cross Cutting (Disability, Gender, Male Engagement )
• Leadership & Governance
• HR Development
• Resource Mobilization
• ICT and KM
• Prevent HTPS and GBV and Trafficking
• Improve Livelihood Opportunities for Vulnerable Children & Youth
The National Health Policy emphasizes core principles of democratization and decentralization of the Health Care System of Ethiopia. Preventive, promotive and curative components of health services in the country have…
Education is the single most powerful tool to transform and sustain lives of individuals, which are the fabric of a country’s society. The country has long been affected by the…
Internal child migration and trafficking, especially of children aged 10 to 18 years is a widespread social and demographic phenomenon in Ethiopia. Under its child development interventions, MSD has been…
Unemployment, underemployment, illegal migration, harmful cultural norms and practices and low aspiration are some of the issues that put a growing number of youth at risk. Among the major challenges…
It is a program that comes to the front following the revision of the CSO law. MSD had been implementing rights-based projects in collaboration with government stakeholders and child led…
MSD is currently running projects on unsafe migration and human trafficking entitled Protecting Unsafe Migration, Paths to Safer Childhood and Prevention and also Community and School Based Prevention and Protection…
MSD is an Ethiopian based local charity organization which is operating its development programs in 41 towns of Amhara , Benishangul , Oromiya, SPNN & Tigray regions and two sub cities of Addis Ababa (Lideta & Akaki Kality). The thematic intervention programs of MSD are Health, Education, Livelihood, Child & Youth, Migration & Human trafficking, and Good Governance & Human right. As part of its health program, MSD is involving on the national effort for the prevention of the Corona-COVID19 pandemic and in the care for infected patients in Amhara…
Habtam was born and raised in Debark, a small city in Northern Ethiopia. An outstanding high school student, she was noticed early by our screening team at the Hamlin College of Midwives. While in her final year of high school, Habtam was recruited into the college’s four year Bachelor of Science in Midwifery degree, fully funded by Simien Mountains Mobile Medical Service A new path Habtam had never previously considered a career in midwifery, but quickly showed her passion and academic prowess. The first year of her degree went really…
Promoting Human rights and Democracy is a key for the realization of development in any nation. Building sustainable peaceful coexistence and good governance are the central pillars to ensure the observance of human rights and accountability. In lieu of this, MSD is implementing a Human right and good governance program where the “PEACE MATTERS – Dialogue for peaceful coexistence” project is a part. The project is being formally signed with regional & local level organs of government. While partners of this project are to launch the project in six regional…
