Ongoing Projects
Project: Improving legal and service response to SGBV in conflict affected areas of Ethiopia
Goal: To enhance the implementation of legislation, policies, national action plans, service standards, and accountability systems to prevent and end SGBV in Ethiopia
Objective:
- Strengthen Survivor-Centered Services: Improve the delivery of services for survivors of SGBV in the targeted regions.
- Enhance Capacity of Service Providers: Build the capacity of institutional partners to develop and implement effective strategies and policies on ending violence against women and girls.
- Promote CRSV Prevention: Integrate conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) prevention and response into Ethiopia’s national policy framework.
- Establish Accountability Mechanisms: Create and operationalize accountability
Duration: 2025 – 2029
Implementation Area: at National Level, Tigray, Amhara and Benshangul gomuz
Partner Organization: UN Women
Project: Reducing Environmental Shocks, Improving Livelihoods, and Inspiring Empowered, Innovative and Thriving Women of Ethiopia (RESILIENT-WE)
Objective:
To increase the resilience of women and girls in Hararghe zones of Oromia Region to negative impacts of environmental degradation and climate induced shocks thereby enhancing enjoyment of their rights.
Duration: April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2027
Implementation Area: East and West Hararghe Zones of the Oromia Region (Tullo, Chiro, Oda Bultum, Boke, Jarso, Babile, and Gursum Woredas)
Partner Organization: World Vision Ethiopia and Global Affairs Canada
Project: Inclusive Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Objective:
The political structures consider and take further measures to increase diversity in political participation, particularly the share of women and persons with disabilities
Duration: January 2025 – December 2027
Implementation Area: Addis Ababa, Oromia and Benshangul Gumuz Regional States
Partner Organization: Political Parties of Finland for Democracy – Demo Finland
Project: An Africa Consortium’s Response to Advancing Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in Ethiopia (2024 2027): Building Localization and Resilience for the Women’s Peace and Security Agenda
Objective:
To strengthen the localization and resilience of the Women’s Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in Ethiopia by empowering local peace leaders and Stakeholders, enhancing institutional capacities of local organizations with strategic thinking, exchange of good regional practices, and technical skills, and by contributing to fostering sustainable and inclusive peace processes that ensure the active meaningful participation and leadership of women in conflict its mitigation, prevention, transformative resolution, and post-conflict recovery.
Duration: 1 December 2024 – 31 March 2027
Implementation Area: National level (in all regions)
Partner Organization: UK FCDO ACCORD
Project: Empowering Women-Led Associations and Community Structures to Strengthen Grassroots and National Movements to End Child Marriage, FGM, and Sexual Violence
Objective:
To build a mass movement around ending child marriage, FGM and violence through strategic engagement of women and youth-led organizations and their allies at different levels.
Duration: 15 December 2024- June 2026.
Implementation Area: National and Amhara, Oromia and Somali Regions (Debark Town, Fentalle and Babile Woredas respectively)
Partner Organization: UNICEF
Project: Empowerment and Representation: Advancing Political Inclusion for Women and Persons with Disabilities in Ethiopia
Objective:
To advance political inclusion for women and women with disabilities in Ethiopia.
Duration: January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2025
Implementation Area: Afar and Gambella Regional States
Partner Organization: UN Women
Project: Enhancing the capacity of GBV Campaign Ethiopia through ensuring the engagement of grassroot Women led organizations.
Objective: The project aims to strengthen and sustain the anti-GBV movement in Ethiopia by building the technical, financial, and operational capacities of Women’s Rights Organizations (WROs), Women-Led Organizations (WLOs), and other stakeholders to effectively prevent and respond to Gender-Based Violence (GBV), including conflict-induced Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV). By addressing systemic gaps in GBV prevention and response, the project seeks to establish a coordinated and sustainable approach to combating violence against women and girls. It will be implemented in collaboration with four partners operating in Tigray, Oromia, Amhara, and Addis Ababa regions.
The project presumes the following key outcomes, including enhanced capacity of WROs, WLOs, and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to deliver sustainable GBV services and improved collaboration among anti-GBV actors across Ethiopia. It also aims to strengthen institutional frameworks to address conflict-induced SGBV, increase government accountability in GBV prevention and response, and foster a sustainable anti-GBV movement that addresses the root causes and consequences of violence at the community, regional, and national levels.
Duration: December 1, 2024- November 31, 2025
Implementation Area: Oromia, Tigray, Amhara and Addis Ababa
Partner Organization: Feminist Opportunities Now (FON )
Project: Coupling Unpaid Care and Domestic Work with Local Development Agenda for Improved Care Systems in Ethiopia
Objective: The project aims to contribute to improve gender-responsive planning and budgeting by instituting UCDW and an intersectional approach in the care system of Ethiopia. Specifically targeting, to scale the effectiveness of gender mainstreaming and promote the recognition, reduction, and redistribution of UCDW in the selected pro-poor government sectors, to inform decision makers to create interest and commitment in making investments in UCDW for better recognition, reduction, and redistribution of UCDW in the pro-poor government sectors, and to inform the policy and practice gaps in current practice of gender mainstreaming from an intersectional lens and UCDW considerations.
During the implementation period, two key research themes will be pursued: Carry out implementation research—gender mainstreaming guidelines/policy and measure and value UCDW using both National Transfer Accounts (NTA) and National Time Transfer Accounts (NTTA). Following the research outcomes, follow-up strategies will include policy briefs, trainings, advocacy, and publications to ensure effective implementation and impact.
Eventually, the following outcomes are expected to be achieved: gender mainstreaming guidelines and policies are revised, and related policies become sensitive and responsive, and UCDW is recognized. Interest among policymakers to recognize and invest in the national care system/UCDW is enhanced. Improved practices of gender mainstreaming that recognize and invest in the care system that reduce and redistribute UCDW.
Duration: February 2024 – January 2026
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: International Development Research Center (IDRC)
Project: WE-CARE Phase V, The development and implementation of an advocacy strategy on Unpaid Care and Domestic Work
Objective: The project Objectives are Strengthening, Policy influencing and Movement building, and capacity building and also WE-Care aims to increase the recognition of UCDW in public policy; reduce heavy and time-consuming UCDW through investments in essential public services and infrastructure; redistribute the responsibility for UCDW more equally between men and women and between households and the state; and ensure that women with care responsibilities are represented in the planning and implementation of budgets and policies that affect their lives.
Duration: September 2023 – July 2026
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: Oxfam GB Ethiopia
Project: Support and establishment of multi-sectoral coordination mechanisms on prevention of FGM/HTP and building of Anti-GBV MOVEMENT.
Objective: Contribute towards an enhanced level of Commitment of women free from FGM/HTP, gov of Ethiopia by incremental percentage in 2030
Duration: August 2023 – March 2024
Implementation Area: Afar region, Amhara, and National level.
Partner Organization: UN-Women Ethiopia
Project: Women’s Voice and Leadership
Objective: Contributing to a systems-change of how gender equality & feminism principles are perceived and valued by policy-makers, CSO’s, WO and Duty Bearers. By making women voice more recognised and valued as a public good, NEWA aims to help shift how the policy frameworks & economies are structured and how existing legal frameworks, public policies and public services are designed and delivered to transform the lives of women.
Duration: 2020-2024
Implementation Area: Addis Ababa, Amhara, Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People (SNNP).
Partner Organization: Plan International Ethiopia
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