Women and Gender

See also: Crosscutting Issues – Water

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

To improve the health status and quality of life of over 900,000 beneficiaries in target communities in four regions.

Project Objectives:

• Improving the use of safe water, sanitation and hygiene services and practices

Description:

Date of Operation: 2007 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Population Council

Other Implementing Partner(s): Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, and Tigray

Goal:

Prevent new HIV infections, and promote abstinence and mutual faithfulness by addressing the HIV risk among the most vulnerable adolescent girls and their partners, including orphans

Objectives:

• Increase comprehensive HIV prevention activities for adolescent girls and their partners engaged in early marriage,
• Provide technical leadership on gender and early marriage programming to reduce the risk and vulnerability of adolescent girls and young women to HIV infection
• Provide services and referrals to female orphans and vulnerable children who have migrated to low income urban centers

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See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Jhpiego

Other Implementing Partners: Save the Children, Johns Hopkins University, and John Snow, Inc.

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

To curb maternal, neonatal and child morbidity and mortality in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues, Central Contraceptive Procurement

Date of Operation: 2008 - 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Pathfinder International

Other Implementing Partners: John Snow Inc., Consortium of Reproductive Health Associations (CORHA)

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goal:

Improve family health, especially for mothers, newborns, and children.

Project Objectives:

See also: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Transformations for Enhanced Resilience (WATER) Project, Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children Consortium

Other Implementing Partners: CARE, International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Mercy Corps

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia and Somali

Goal:

Protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and ex-pastoralists.

Project Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2002 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: International Foundation for Education and Self Help (IFESH)

Regions of Operation: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromia, SNNP and Tigray

Goal:

Help improve the quality of primary education through capacity building of teacher education institutions in the training of primary school teachers and teaching of English.

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues, Good Governance

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Pact

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Develop an ethic of civic leadership and responsibility in growing youth that will help to produce a young generation with strong self-esteem who participates in community services and promotes peace, tolerance, respect, equality, justice and dignity.

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Peace Corps

Regions of Operation: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, and Tigray

Goals:

Enhance the proficiency of English language reading and writing and the programs of English education and training in the colleges of teacher education and primary schools in Ethiopia.

Objectives:

• Increase availability and use of teaching resources
• Help roll out new teaching aids and methodologies
• Promote supplemental reading materials for both teachers and students
• Encourage an English speaking and reading environment

Description:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Other Implementing Partner(s): Pact

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve the quality of primary education through the development of teachers’ professional capacity, provision of supplementary reading materials to support instruction and strengthening of the planning and management capacity of the primary education system.

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Fre Addis Ethiopia Yesetoch Merja Mahiber

Regions of Operation: Afar, Amhara, Benishangul-Gumuz and Tigray

Goal:

Grant scholarship money to complete secondary education to poor rural Ethiopian female students to who have demonstrated strong academic performance and successfully completed grade eight.

Objectives:

• Motivate disadvantaged but academically high-performing secondary school girls, in particular those from low-income families, with physical disabilities, or who are orphans.
• Monitor the academic performance of the girls to ensure their stay in school and success in their studies.

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