Ethiopia: Leave no women behind Joint Programme
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $7,500,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNFPA, WFP
Main Achievements
- More than 13,000 men and women are participating in bi-monthly community conversations on gender, HIV and AIDS and reproductive health. 260 trained community conversation facilitators are deployed.
- More than 12,400 women and girls are being trained on life skills and literacy; at the end of training, 56% were able to read and write.
- 379 women trained in income-generating activities and 1,314 trained in saving and credit cooperatives management. Loan repayment rate is ranges from 56% to 96%.
Contact Ana Etxebarria, etxebarria@unfpa.org
The Joint Programme on Leave No Woman Behind (LNWB) is a three-year girls’ and womens’ integrated empowerment programme that aims to test and scale-up pilot projects in different regions in Ethiopia. The Joint Programme includes components in Education and Literacy, Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS and Livelihood interventions targeting adolescent girls and women.
The programme aims to introduce low-cost literacy, livelihood and reproductive health services primarily targeted at increasing literacy skills, education, knowledge and skills on reproductive health and livelihood. A community-based approach will be adopted. The Joint programme will be a Government-led initiative with sector ministries at sub regional level implementing programme components. Capacity building will be a central strategy through allocation of resources for strengthening technical and management capacities of local sector offices to foster demonstrable quality and impact and ensure sustainability.