ERSHA – Enhanced Rural Self Help Association – is an Ethiopian development NGO established in 1997. It is present in Omoro, in eastern Ethiopia, and in Amhara, in North-Choa.

The organisation organises its services around four main issues:

• Food security: trains farmers to use more resistant plant varieties and more efficient production techniques, gets villagers prepared for the impacts of global warming on harvests
• Access to basic social services: implements water sanitation projects, provides school materials to schools, trains families to adopt better hygiene measures
• Socio-economic development of women and young people: establishes women self-help groups, trains women in trade and agricultural equipment, raises public awareness about children’s rights
• Strengthening the institutional capacity of local people: draws up regulations, builds offices for community organisations so they can start development projects themselves

At the end of 2019, ERSHA achieved the following results:

• 11 producer cooperatives supported
• 1,838 producers with access to the services of their cooperatives
• 111 farmers with improved management of their plots of land.