Pastoralist Welfare Organization (PWO) is a non-partisan, non-for-profit, non-political, non-religious and non-governmental organization established in October 2003 by pastoralist elders and intellectuals in Dollo Ado woreda of Somali Region. The PWO is registered with Charities and Societies Agency (ChSA) with registration # 0327. PWO has a vision of aspiring “to see empowered and self sustained pastoralist community in Ethiopia.” The mission of PWO is to work with women and men pastoralists and partners towards improving socio-economic conditions of pastoralists through institutional capacity building, enhancing livelihood, protecting the environment, and minimizing vulnerability to disaster. PWO as local implementing partner of Oxfam GB is initiating implementation of a project "Building Resilience through Integrated Recovery Support to Drought Affected Communities in Somali (Siti Zone) Regions". This project is a consortium project (Save The Children as lead organization while Oxfam GB is one of the member organizations) funded by European Commission under Support for Horn of Africa Resilience (SHARE). PWO is expected to implement the project in Shinile and Ayisha district of Siti Zone in Somali region.
