Dendi (woreda)

Part of the West Shewa Zone, Dendi is bordered on the south by the Southwest Shewa Zone, on the west by Naannawa Ambo, on the north by Jeldu, and on the east by Ejerie.

The administrative center of this woreda is Ginchi; other towns in Dendi include Olonkomi.

[1] The major micro-finance institutions operating in Dendi are the Oromiyaa Credit and Saving SC, Busa Gonofa and Saving Institution SC, and the Africa Mender Association.

These institutions reported 9 April 2008 that for the previous fiscal year they extended loans totaling 11,106,190 Birr to 8,571 low income individuals in the woreda.

[2] On 2 August 2009, ANMOL Products, an Indian corporation, inaugurated a paper mill in Ginchi.