On-Going Projects

Budget advocacy – Making children a priority in   the Region/Woreda Budgets: this project aims to ensure that the Ethiopian children and youngsters, including the most vulnerable and marginalized, enjoy their full economic, social, and cultural rights by creating public pressure through direct citizen pressure aimed at government to allocate the public funds necessary for their provision.

Project No.: IA/SCS-PR/07/016
Funded by: Save the Children Sweden (SCS)

Strengthening the Capacity of Business Support Organizations: this project focuses on three key capacity-building themes: (i) build the capacity for policy making, planning, and managing business training programs; (ii) help associations develop business plan for strategy implementation and operation; (iii) develop a resource mobilization master plan to help associations sustain their operations and achieve set goals and objectives.

Project No: IA/CIPE/PR/07/005        
Funding Partner: Center for International Private Enterprises (CIPE)
Project location: Addis Ababa, Awassa, and Jimma

Building Conflict Prevention Capacity: The aim of this project is to prevent violent conflict. It contributes to the government and its partners’ efforts to advance social peace, respect for the rule of law, human rights, and social and economic development. By supporting the capacities of CSOs/NGOs involved in conflict prevention, the present proposal is a step forward in promoting citizen based approaches towards achieving sustainable inter-communal reconciliation.

Project No.: CSF/Governance/2006
Project partner: Beza Integrated Development Aid Association
Funded by: European Commission/Civil Society Fund
Project location: Addis Ababa, SNNPR, Oromia, and Benishangul Gumuz Regions

Human Rights and Democracy 

IA’s Advancing Human Rights And Democracy  Financial and technical support to projects that promote political and economic freedom, a strong civil society, independent media, human rights and the rule of law. These areas of work are supported through direct grants to NGO's.
For more information about the HR & D Grant.

Project No.: IA/PN-04-06/SIDA/044 Rev 4

Project partner: SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency)

PRIOR PROJECTS

European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights Fund  – Backing Ethiopia’s Future: this project aims to enhance the proper operation of democratic student government as well as the intellectual, cultural and democratic discourse of the entire students and education stakeholders by supporting co-curricular and extracurricular activities.

Project No.: 122-870/L/G
Project partner: Ethiopian Teachers Association
Funded by: European Commission
Project location: Addis Ababa, Tigray, Oromia, Amhara, SNNPR regions

2nd Edition of the Addis International Film Festival on Human Rights: aims to enlighten citizens through films, music, roundtables and art exhibitions by promoting a vision of the world that is just and ethical.
Project No.: Film Festival 2
Funded by:  Finland Embassy
Project location: Addis Ababa and SNNP Region

European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights Fund  – ‘Organizing the unorganized: informal economy and women workers’: aims to promote the rights of informal and women workers, to make themselves less vulnerable, through awareness raising, capacity building and education oriented actions.

Project No.: 123-646/L/G
Project partner: The Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Union
Funded by: European Commission
Project ocation: Addis Ababa, Awassa, Mekelle and Bahir Dar

Community Based Participatory Performance Monitoring Initiative in North Shewa:  aims to bring on board ordinary citizens and civil society organizations to participate, directly or indirectly, in exacting governmental accountability and in influencing policy priorities.  This project is promoted by the Government of Ethiopia and its international development partners for the newly introduced development assistance mechanism known as ‘Protection of Basic Services’ (PBS).
Project No.: 57.30089
Funded by:  Deutsche Gesellschaft fűr Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ)
Project location: North Shewa, Amhara Region

Budget Review for Education and Children Welfare Support: designed to support two initiatives. The first initiative deals with the preparation of a budget analysis series on  Education and Children Welfare with the first issue on how well the Federal Government is addressing the basic needs of  children and recommendations for the fiscal year 2006-2007 and second issue 2008-2009. In so doing, the project is expected to foster dialogue among federal and region government representatives, local government officers, CSOs, members of parliament, and the media in articulating priorities.
Project No.: ET 05/07
Funded by:  Save the Children Sweden (SCS)
Project location: Addis Ababa and Awassa [SNNP Region]

Leadership in Civic Education: is an innovative pilot project which combines traditional education and community service to promote civic responsibility among young people. The project achieves this goal through structured civic education training, inter-region collaboration with local schools, community-based organizations, and youth advocacy groups and social engagement to make a positive impact on society.
Project No.: ET 04/07
Funded by:  Save the Children Sweden (SCS)
Project location: Addis Ababa, Afar, Amhara, Benishangule Gumuz, Dire Dewa, Oromia Regions

Providing Stewardship to Business Associations
The project is designed to support local business associations and contribute to the development and growth of private enterprises through the establishment of Resource Center, conducting training programs to association leaders, and providing technical assistance are intended to accelerate the development of business and sectorial associations into financially viable and freestanding organizations that are capable of delivering high quality services for support of entrepreneurs.

Project No: IA/PN-09-05/CIPE/002 -rev 2
Funding Partner: Center for International Private Enterprises (CIPE)

1st Edition Addis Film Festival on Human Rights – The issues of Human Rights and Governance are of central concern to all Ethiopians and to all those who wish Ethiopian well. In this regard, IA is launching a project of film festival on this issue with the objectives of increasing the public’s awareness to contribute its share in the promotion and protection of human rights; to build a broad community of filmmakers, librarians, activists, teachers and other citizens who use their artistic skills as instruments of “artistic resistance”; and to create new, powerful alliances between and among local advocacy organizations.

Project No: IA/PN-11-05/005
Funding Partner: Finland Embassy

Producing a Video Spot on UDHR Articles- aims to increase high school students’ awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) using the 30 articles of the UDHR and producing CDs for wide distribution.

Project No.: GLO/06/HC/01
Project Partner: OHCHR (Office for High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Support to women entrepreneurs-Women have always played an important role in enterprise in Harar, one of the largest regional cities of Ethiopia, but often within ‘invisible’ support roles. Despite considerable social and cultural change in Ethiopia, the proportion of women starting and running their own businesses still lags behind much. This EU funded project aims to help women take control of their lives by providing the specific support and advice they need to start and sustain their own business.

Project No.: MSEDP/CB/07/05

Project partner: EU (Delegation of the European Commission to Ethiopia)

The project Pipeline to Leadership was implemented from April 2004 – September 2004 to promote human rights and democracy in Ethiopia, with a particular emphasis on promoting the involvement of women in politics and leadership.

Project No.: IA/PN-04/UK-037

Project Partner: DFID (Department for International Development)

Youth Engagement and Community Voting Project -Ethiopia a Voter Education Project implemented from March 2005 - May 2005. The projects goal was to educate, inform and change attitudes of voters. The breath of the project included three components, Voter Education, Voter Information, and Voter Participation.

Project No.: PAC/05/018/IA

Project Partner: UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

The EU funded project – Building the  Media and the Capacity of Youths Organizations to Promote HR & D - aims to strengthen human rights and democracy in Ethiopia by building the capacity of youth associations and the media in human rights standards and the rule of law.

Project No.: 88-965

Project Partner: EU (Delegation of the European Commission to Ethiopia)

Pre Election Survey 2005 (National Election – Ethiopia)

The 2005 pre election survey is a random sample of persons eligible to vote residing in urban areas and town of major regions of Ethiopia. The survey was carried out from 9th January 2005 to 8th February 2005. The survey intends to determine respondents’ expectations about the outcome of the elections, perceptions, and evaluations of the major parties and candidates, and perceived importance of the election.

Click here to download Pre Election Survey (Publisher)

 HIV/AIDS

Establishment of a multi-media resource center on HIV/AIDS prevention and best practices to assist CLCs and other community organizations to support and compose messages that prevent HIV infection and reduce the incidence of HIV related illnesses.

Project No. IA/PN-03-04/GF/041-Rev 2

Funding Partner: HAPCO/GF (HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control/Global Fund)

Establishment of Measurement system for STDs/HIV/AIDS in the Addis-Djibouti Corridor to provide accurate and timely information on the status of the HIV epidemics and to support community-based capacity development programs. One of the major aims of this project is to monitor the spread of HIV/AIDS epidemic through a statistical measurements.

Project No. IA/PN-03-08-H022/Rev 4

Funding Partner: HAPCO (HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control)

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