UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund

Published purpose

P003097001: The project aims to advance the empowerment of women and girls by preventing and responding to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Ethiopia. The project includes activities to support women and girls in reaching their full potential and meeting their sexual and reproductive health needs, free from violence, harmful traditional practices, exploitation and discrimination. Project activities include: (1) increasing awareness on SGBV, including harmful traditional practices, as well as on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) with communities, local authorities, vulnerable households, and change agents such as traditional leaders; (2) training psycho-social counsellors and health personnel, including government health workers, on gender-responsive SGBV services; (3) establishing or strengthening model clinics, safe houses and one-stop centres to provide comprehensive and integrated services on SGBV and SRHR; and (4) training and technical support to improve the implementation of relevant legal and policy frameworks around SGBV and SRHR, for instance for law enforcement bodies. The project focuses on 8 regions across Ethiopia, targeting 14 million people. P003097002: In response to COVID-19, the project is support ing Ethiopia’s efforts to prevent and protect women and girls from sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) during the pandemic through the following COVID-19 specific activities: (1) creating additional safe shelter spaces and increasing the accommodating capacity of existing safe houses for women victims of SGBV; (2) providing health workers and caregivers in related centres with the protective equipment required to maintain their operations including to allow continuity of sexual and reproductive health services and interventions; (3) working with faith based organizations and local civil society organisations to raise awareness among Ethiopians on the pandemic and SGBV prevention and creating tailored messages to be delivered through regional and national mass-media; (4) disseminating information, including through the establishment of hotlines and youth friendly communications platforms, to SGBV survivors, potential victims, and witnesses; and, (5) procuring and distributing dignity kits to vulnerable women and girls. This increase builds on the project's main activities that aim to advance the empowerment of women and girls by preventing and responding to SGBV in Ethiopia. The project includes activities to support women and girls in reaching their full potential and meeting their sexual and reproductive health needs, free from violence, harmful traditional practices, exploitation and discrimination. Project activities include: (1) increasing awareness on SGBV, including harmful traditional practices, as well as on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) with communities, local authorities, vulnerable households, and change agents such as traditional leaders; (2) training psycho-social counsellors and health personnel, including government health workers, on gender-responsive SGBV services; (3) establishing or strengthening model clinics, safe houses and one-stop centres to provide comprehensive and integrated services on SGBV and SRHR; and (4) training and technical support to improve the implementation of relevant legal and policy frameworks around SGBV and SRHR, for instance for law enforcement bodies. The project focuses on 8 regions across Ethiopia, targeting 14 million people.