Month: May 2023

Girls and Young Women Movement Content Creation Challenge 2023 (Deu date: June 25, 2023-CLOSED)

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NETWORK OF ETHIOPIAN WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION (NEWA) Content Creation Challenge 2023 Are you a young Ethiopian creative looking for a platform to showcase your talent/content? NEWA’s Girls and Young Women (GYW) Movement Creative Challenge is here to provide you with just that. Background The Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) is a pioneer women’s coalition of …

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Facts and figures: Women’s leadership and political participation

Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 perceptions in Ethiopia through a women-led organization

Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.  However, data shows that women are underrepresented at all levels of decision-making worldwide and achieving gender parity in political life is far off. Women in executive government positions As of 1 September 2021, there are 26 women serving …

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Why violence against women and girls increases during conflicts?

Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 perceptions in Ethiopia through a women-led organization

While gender norms are the root cause of sexual and gender-based violence, this violence often increases further as conflict, economic crisis, natural disasters, pandemics, and other challenges because Sexual and gender-based violence can be used as a political instrument in conflicts, further compounding the effects of fragility and presenting risks for human and societal dimensions …

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NEWA delivers trainings on protection of women and girls from all forms of violence

Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 perceptions in Ethiopia through a women-led organization

NEWA has delivered series of trainings to representatives of women-led organizations and CSOs working on women’s rights in Amhara region’s Desse and Afar’s Semera towns from July 26 to August 12,2022. The workshop’s focus was on prevention, protection of women & girls from all forms of violence through the promotion of non-violent, non–discriminatory and gender …

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Volunteers Training

Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 perceptions in Ethiopia through a women-led organization

NEWA in partnership with Plan International Ethiopia is implementing the project titled ‘Women’s Voice and Leadership’. This project aims to support the capacity and activities of local and regional women’s organizations. The project intends to deliver an initiative that will promote a vibrant and sustainable women’s rights movement, consolidating the voice of women and girls …

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Gender Talk Forum

Stories of Capacity Development: Changing COVID-19 perceptions in Ethiopia through a women-led organization

Women’s movements are instrumental in flagging issues relating to women’s rights and Gender equality. This has been witnessed through the various movements that have championed women’s causes in Ethiopia. It is with this context that NEWA had planned this year’s “Gender talk Forum ”, which is NEWA’s signature dialogue platform that has been ongoing for …

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