Major public institutions here include the Ethiopian Police College and the Sendafa military camp.

The town is also the planned location for the new training centre of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, budgeted to cost 80 million birr.

This plan includes a seven-story headquarters building to be built in Arat Kilo[2] US Peace Corps Volunteers served in Sedafa between 1966 and 1970.

[4] Based on figures from the Central Statistical Agency in 2005, this town has an estimated total population of 9,952 of whom 4,737 are men and 5,215 are women.

In 2010, Living Word Community Church members raised $10,000 to pay for a clean-water well to be drilled in Sendafa.