In pursuit of its objective, EPaRDA works in close collaboration with all tiers of the Ethiopian government, as well as with other local and international organizations. Its major donors and partners have been European Union(EU) , US Embassy, Cordaid, Plan International Ethiopia,  Health Poverty Actions (HPA), Big Lottery Fund (BLF),  Comic Relief, PACT Ethiopia, Oxfam, Veterinary Sans Frontieres- Germany, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida); the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DfID), Consortium of Christian Relief Development Association (CCRDA), FARM Africa, Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF),  Mothers and Children Multi-sectoral Development Organization (MCMDO),  MONACO Fund Aid, Weltfriedensdienst e.V. (WFD), Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia (PFE), and the Federal and Regional Pastoralist Community Development Program (PCDP).