NGO Directory Africa lists 394 organisations working in Ethiopia, 271 of them with their head office in the country and 113 international NGOs. The most common causes are Community Development, Health & Wellbeing, Food Security & Agriculture. Most listed organisations are based in Oromia, Amhara, Tigray. This page shows 11 un agencies.
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UN agencies in Ethiopia
UNICEF
Khartoum, United States UNICEF works in the world’s toughest places to reach the most disadvantaged children and to protect the rights of every child, everywhere.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
United States UN office coordinating humanitarian response.
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
القاهرة, Switzerland UN agency protecting refugees, forcibly displaced and stateless people.
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United States UN development agency working on poverty, governance and climate.
International Organization for Migration (ECHO)
Ethiopia Humanitarian and development partner working in Contested, Tigray, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia, listed in OCHA’s Who does What Where (3W) data (2026).
UN Agency
Ethiopia Humanitarian and development partner working in Gambela, Ethiopia, listed in OCHA’s Who does What Where (3W) data (2025).
UNICEF/WHO
Ethiopia Humanitarian and development partner working in Gambela, Oromia, Ethiopia, listed in OCHA’s Who does What Where (3W) data (2025).
United Nation Mine Action Service
Ethiopia Humanitarian and development partner working in Amhara, Ethiopia, listed in OCHA’s Who does What Where (3W) data (2026).
United Nations High Office of Commisioner for Human Right (CERF)
Ethiopia Humanitarian and development partner working in Amhara, Contested, Oromia, Tigray, Ethiopia, listed in OCHA’s Who does What Where (3W) data (2026).
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