Ongoing Projects
Project: Women Voice and Leadership/ Women Empowerment Grant
Objective: The project was designed keeping in mind that progress on gender equality has stalled. At the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to close the overall gender gap, and more than 200 years to eliminate gender-based violence. One of the reasons for this lack of progress is that the biases on gender equality. NEWA’s goal is to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing the largest, least-recognized factor preventing women to reach their full potential – Gender Equality. By recognizing, reducing, and asking for policy and legal frameworks revision, NEWA promotes a just society where women and girls have more choices across all stages of their lives, in economic, social and political activities, and where women voices are heard in decision-making about policies and budgets at all levels. The main objective is contributing to a systems-change of how gender equality & feminism principle 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: March 2019- March 2024
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: Plan International Ethiopia
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: Strengthen the participation and leadership of women’s rights organizations in response to sexual and gender-based violence
Objective: NEWA, Ethiopia’s leading women’s network, is proud to announce a new project in collaboration with a Spanish corporation: “Strengthening the Participation and Leadership of Women’s Rights Organizations in Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence.” This ambitious initiative aligns perfectly with NEWA’s vision and mission:
• Vision: An Ethiopian society where gender equality is a reality.
• Mission: To empower women and girls through economic, social, political, and legal means, building a society where their rights are respected and their voices are heard.
Why is this project crucial?
SGBV remains a significant challenge in Ethiopia, impacting countless women and girls. NEWA recognizes that effectively addressing this issue requires a multi-pronged approach, and this project tackles it head-on by:
• Building the capacity of NEWA’s member organizations: We’ll equip our members with the technical and institutional skills needed to effectively combat SGBV at the local level. This includes training on advocacy, service delivery, and community engagement.
• Empowering women’s leadership: We’ll provide opportunities for women to take on leadership roles within their communities and organizations, driving change from the ground up.
• Strengthening collaboration: We’ll foster partnerships with government agencies, civil society organizations, and other stakeholders to create a comprehensive and coordinated response to SGBV.
How will this project benefit women and girls?
By strengthening the capacity of our members and empowering women leaders, this project will:
• Increase access to essential services: More women will have access to SGBV prevention and support services, including legal aid, healthcare, and psychosocial counseling.
• Amplify women’s voices: Women will be equipped to advocate for their rights and hold perpetrators accountable.
• Shift harmful attitudes: Community engagement and leadership training will challenge harmful gender norms and promote positive attitudes towards women and girls.
• Create a ripple effect: By empowering women at the local level, we can create a domino effect of positive change throughout Ethiopian society.
This project aligns with SDG 5:
Our work directly contributes to achieving SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, particularly Goal 5.5: Guarantee the full and effective participation of women and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.
Duration: June 2023 – May 2025
Implementation Area:
Partner Organization: Spanish Corporation
Project: Women Voice and Leadership/ Women Empowerment Grant
Objective: The project was designed keeping in mind that progress on gender equality has stalled. At the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to close the overall gender gap, and more than 200 years to eliminate gender-based violence. One of the reasons for this lack of progress is that the biases on gender equality. NEWA’s goal is to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing the largest, least-recognized factor preventing women to reach their full potential – Gender Equality. By recognizing, reducing, and asking for policy and legal frameworks revision, NEWA promotes a just society where women and girls have more choices across all stages of their lives, in economic, social and political activities, and where women voices are heard in decision-making about policies and budgets at all levels. The main objective is contributing to a systems-change of how gender equality & feminism principle 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: March 2019- March 2024
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: Plan International Ethiopia
Project: Women Voice and Leadership/ Evidence and Influencing Grant “Evidence based advocacy against GBV and VAWG”
Objective: Through this project, NEWA has mapped 13 organizations and associations working on women’s right for the evidence-based advocacy grant. After a two-day workshop NEWA as an umbrella organization along with its members have selected to advocate on GBV; specifically on implementation of laws and policies. The goal of this project is to contribute in Protecting women’s human right towards 10-year perspective plan and SDG goal 05. The target influencers and decision makers have also been identified as well as designing the logical framework.
Duration: June 2022- March 2024
Implementation Area: Amhara, SNNPR, Sidama and Oromia
Partner Organization: Plan International 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: Determining Ethiopian women’s status and priorities: an action research project
Objective: The general objective of the research project is to contribute to the improvement of gender equality and women’s empowerment by generating evidence for effective response. The major activities of the project include conducting the national survey (quantitative), undertaking participatory action research (qualitative) and producing a consolidate report. A mixed approach employed is believed to give a full picture of the status and priorities of Ethiopian women. The outcome of the Action is to ultimately generate evidence for effective response and broader gender equality concern during and after crisis in Ethiopia
Duration: January 2023 to July 2024
Implementation Area: 11 region and 2 city administration
Partner Organization: EU
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
Project: She Leads – Enhancing Girls & Young Women (GYW) participation in national level decision making spaces.
Objective: NEWA is implementing the She Leads project Ethiopia, focusing on the national level. It targets and engages the government, CSOs and GYW, while linking the project with the EWLA and other projects of She Leads.
It will contribute to the following outcomes:
- Enhanced collective voice and action of GYW in formal and informal institutions
- Meaningful participation of GYW enabled by councils, law enforcement and government sectoral offices.
Duration: 2021-2025
Implementation Area: Oromia (Dukem), Hawassa (Dilla), Amhara, Oromia and Addis Ababa.
Partner Organization: Netherland programme she leads (TDH-NL)
Project: Women Voice and Leadership/ Women Empowerment Grant
Objective: The project was designed keeping in mind that progress on gender equality has stalled. At the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to close the overall gender gap, and more than 200 years to eliminate gender-based violence. One of the reasons for this lack of progress is that the biases on gender equality. NEWA’s goal is to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing the largest, least-recognized factor preventing women to reach their full potential – Gender Equality. By recognizing, reducing, and asking for policy and legal frameworks revision, NEWA promotes a just society where women and girls have more choices across all stages of their lives, in economic, social and political activities, and where women voices are heard in decision-making about policies and budgets at all levels. The main objective is contributing to a systems-change of how gender equality & feminism principle 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: March 2019- March 2024
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: Plan International Ethiopia
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: Women Voice and Leadership/ Women Empowerment Grant
Objective: The project was designed keeping in mind that progress on gender equality has stalled. At the current rate of change, it will take more than 100 years to close the overall gender gap, and more than 200 years to eliminate gender-based violence. One of the reasons for this lack of progress is that the biases on gender equality. NEWA’s goal is to reignite progress on gender equality by addressing the largest, least-recognized factor preventing women to reach their full potential – Gender Equality. By recognizing, reducing, and asking for policy and legal frameworks revision, NEWA promotes a just society where women and girls have more choices across all stages of their lives, in economic, social and political activities, and where women voices are heard in decision-making about policies and budgets at all levels. The main objective is contributing to a systems-change of how gender equality & feminism principle 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: March 2019- March 2024
Implementation Area: National Level
Partner Organization: Plan International Ethiopia
Project: Women Voice and Leadership/ Evidence and Influencing Grant “Evidence based advocacy against GBV and VAWG”
Objective: Through this project, NEWA has mapped 13 organizations and associations working on women’s right for the evidence-based advocacy grant. After a two-day workshop NEWA as an umbrella organization along with its members have selected to advocate on GBV; specifically on implementation of laws and policies. The goal of this project is to contribute in Protecting women’s human right towards 10-year perspective plan and SDG goal 05. The target influencers and decision makers have also been identified as well as designing the logical framework.
Duration: June 2022- March 2024
Implementation Area: Amhara, SNNPR, Sidama and Oromia
Partner Organization: Plan International 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: Determining Ethiopian women’s status and priorities: an action research project
Objective: The general objective of the research project is to contribute to the improvement of gender equality and women’s empowerment by generating evidence for effective response. The major activities of the project include conducting the national survey (quantitative), undertaking participatory action research (qualitative) and producing a consolidate report. A mixed approach employed is believed to give a full picture of the status and priorities of Ethiopian women. The outcome of the Action is to ultimately generate evidence for effective response and broader gender equality concern during and after crisis in Ethiopia
Duration: January 2023 to July 2024
Implementation Area: 11 region and 2 city administration
Partner Organization: EU
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
Project: She Leads – Enhancing Girls & Young Women (GYW) participation in national level decision making spaces.
Objective: NEWA is implementing the She Leads project Ethiopia, focusing on the national level. It targets and engages the government, CSOs and GYW, while linking the project with the EWLA and other projects of She Leads.
It will contribute to the following outcomes:
- Enhanced collective voice and action of GYW in formal and informal institutions
- Meaningful participation of GYW enabled by councils, law enforcement and government sectoral offices.
Duration: 2021-2025
Implementation Area: Oromia (Dukem), Hawassa (Dilla), Amhara, Oromia and Addis Ababa.
Partner Organization: Netherland programme she leads (TDH-NL)
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