Amplifying Women’s Voices
Amplifying Women’s Voices
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 …
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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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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Dr. Diana Wendemu, a clinical psychiatrist, was working in Kombolcha town, one of conflict affected areas in Amhara region. She met several women with mental health problems associated with the ongoing conflict in the region at the time. Learning the experiences of those women, she wanted to support them in any way she can. Similarly, …
The Gates Foundation project was one of NEWA’s project that has been concluded recently. One of the achievements of project was virtual safe space use among young women and adolescent girls which developed by Young Women’s Christian Association /YWCA/ which was sub granted by this project. As safe space is a new approach for the …
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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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 …
NEWA in collaboration with DEMO FINLAND has delivered series of trainings that focus on women’s political participation and decision-making for women in politics. The three two days trainings have been conducted in the towns of Adama and Assosa from May to August 2022. Participants of these trainings were women members of Benshangul Gumuz regional Council, …
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 …
Many researches indicate that there is a significant increase in the number of GBV cases faced by women and children. According to the latest Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS 2016) at least one out of every three women in Ethiopia has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, by an …
What should be done about the rise in SGBV against Women? Read More »