| Project Detail |
In the overall, the project aims to contribute to the prevention of VAWG in Ethiopia through testing and tested innovations on how to prevent the diversified forms of violence for the most marginalized women and girls, including in conflict and crisis settings. To this end, the major activities include- Establish/strength women self-help groups, accompanied by cascading training on SHG to women and provision of matching fund to the SHGs and regularly supported by trained project staffs; Identify, award and deploy Gender Champions among the community; Conduct assessment on the capacity of GBV service providers on GBV prevention and response accompanied by validation workshop; Provide Case management and referral linkage and Coordinate community-facility case management activities and services referral linkages; Conduct mapping of women rights based organization and GBV actors; Conduct assessment on effectiveness of existing safeguarding and Accountability delivery modalities, accompanied by validation workshop; Organize biannual coordination meeting with GBV and non-GBV actors; Support celebration of international women’s day; Organize training workshops for community elders, customary and religious leaders, and community based structures; Organize gender awareness festivals in schools; Conduct exploratory research to find out local led solutions; Facilitate GoG (Gender outreach Group) discussions; Adopt COMPASS /Digital feedback case management system for prevention of VAWG; Establish SASA groups among the community, accompanied by provision of training on SASA approach to project staffs, and facilitate Community Dialogues accordingly; Training on safeguarding concepts, safeguarding risk mitigation measures, accountability compliant and feedback mechanisms to project staffs; and Organize learning and exchange/ dissemination workshops at zonal level. The project will be implemented in Mille and Chifra Woredas (districts) of Zone-1 in Afar region, and Worebabo Woreda (South Wollo zone) and Bati Woreda (Oromo nationalities special zone) in Amhara region. These areas are adjacent districts where the three neighboring communities (i.e. the Afar, Amhara, and Oromo) share almost similar behaviors and practices towards VAWGs. As the areas have recently been under violent conflict that caused various tragedies of sexual, physical and psychosocial attacks on women and girls by armed groups, therefore, ELiDA and its copartner, Christian Aid, could implement, test, adopt or adapt parallel interventions that will be able to work for both the normal and conflict settings.  |
