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Wako Gutu Foundation (WGF) is an Ethiopian development organization, originating from a network of volunteers who wanted to bring enduring change to the livelihood of marginalized pastoralist and agro-pastoralist communities in the pastoralist and agro-pastoralist regions in Ethiopia. WGF was established as a local NGO in 2006 in memory of General Wako Gutu,” an Ethiopian pastoralist elder and a peace and justice activist” to undertake integrated, sustainable and community based projects at the border between the Oromia agro-pastoralist and Somali pastoralist communities in the adjacent districts. The organization has firsthand experience in working with pastoral community and has developed proven experiences in changing the lives of pastoral and agro-pastoralist communities through different cost effective and innovative approaches in solving critical community problems for the last ten years since its inception.The organization was registered with the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in August 2007 under certificate number 3216 and re-registered as an Ethiopian Resident NGO under recently enacted civil society agency Ethiopia with certificate number 0456 and same name.
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