ABOUT US
Resource Center for Sustainable Change is a board led CSO supporting local communities to live a prosperous and peaceful life in the former SNNPR (Sidama, South Ethiopia, Soutwest Ethiopia, Central Ethiopia), Oromia Region and Addis Ababa.
The vision of RCSC is to see a society where communities peacefully coexist, and citizens enjoy prosperous and dignified life. While its mission is to promote peaceful coexistence, democratic governance, human rights and inclusive development through right based and gender sensitive approach and capacity building as the response to sustainable development and democratization process in Ethiopia
The thematic intervention areas of RCSC include civil society capacity development, conflict prevention and peace building, inclusion of hard to reach and marginalized communities and social groups, women empowerment, advocacy, human rights and democratic governance.
The major target groups and constituencies of RCSC are: women and traditional women groups, influential community (including Mootes and Chimesas), religious leaders, government, CSOs and girls.
Resource Center for Sustainable Change is a local civil society organization initially formed in 2006 as the Center of Information for Nationality based Development Associations operating in the former SNNPRS and in 2007 was promoted to an Association of CSOs with the registration certificate from the region’s Bureau Justice. After operating with the regional license until 2020 it further upgraded its registration status to the federal level in 2021 with the registration certificate no, 5575 following the change the political dynamics in the country in general and in SNNPRS in particular. With the federal registration status, the name changed to Resource Center for Civil Society Groups Association to “Resource Center for Sustainable Change”.
RCSC is a board led CSO with board members (3 women, 4 men). It has a management body headed by the Executive Director with various technical and administrative departments.
OUR CORE VALUES
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
communities supported in southern Ethiopia
active projects
2 million +
people made aware of their rights and contributions to peace
local conflicts transformed peacefully
Improving access to quality education for girls is essential for a prospering society in Ethiopia. Girls are often kept from going to school as they are often needed at home for chores, to generate additional income as well as to me married off for their dowry. Via community sensitization, creation of a friendly school environment for girls, advocacy campaigns targeting customary and religious institutions and government bodies, capacity building for school communities and local level education sector staff, as well as girls advocacy alliance to prevent gender-based violence, are some of the tools we employ to further girls education and girls voices in Ethiopia.
All of our work mainstreams women empowerment. A prosperous society cannot function without empowered women, women who have access to education, whose voices are heard and who are a respected part of society.
Supporting the growth of a strong civil society in Ethiopia has always been at the core of RCSC's mandate since its inception. We want to see a thriving landscape of civil society organization (CSOs) who work for our common goal of building a prosperous, peaceful and inclusive society in Ethiopia. We therefore provide training and mentoring support in various fields, be it organisational, development, fundraising or thematic inputs.
Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic society with over 80 languages and a multitude of traditions, religious believes and backgrounds. However, people often do not live in peace due to the fight for resources, traditions and cycles of revenge. It is our aim to build on the traditional Ethiopian resolution mechanisms to bring communities together and develop a joint resilience to violent conflict. Resilience that allows the communities to appreciate their diversity, see the communalities and employ the traditional and modern mechanisms of conflict transformation. To harvest the positive energy for change that conflict can bring and have mechanisms in place that allow for peaceful conflict transformation processes.
