Watersheds Organizational and Livelihood Affair Suport (WOLAS)

WOLAS AT A GLANCE. WOLAS is an indigenous non-governmental organization established in February 2008, and works in three regions of Ethiopia. These are: - Amhara, Oromia and Tigray. It is working in partnership with actors in the natural resources development. Vision: - to see communities manage, utilize properly and protect from damage their natural resources and develop sense of ownership to communal properties and thus will lead to sustainable development. Mission:- 1. Playing advisor role in creation of user groups association, 2. Advising and assisting user groups to draft ,adopt and execute enforceable byelaws, 3. Advising and assisting users associations to have a legal personality status. 4. Coaching communities in byelaw execution and management of resources. Major values: - Community participation, rule of law, efficiency and effectiveness transparency, accountability, gender sensitive, and responsiveness.