ActionAid Ethiopia (AAE) Semen Bench LRP participated in 2023 IWD events and celebrations from kebele/school/ level up to regional levels. The organization's achievements in empowering women and girls

Women and girls, in general and those living in rural areas tend to spend a
disproportionate share of their time in unpaid care work (UCW). This reduces
the amount of time available for attending

The CEDAW’s Committee, in its concluding observation (CEDAW/C/ETH/CO/6-7), has
underlined the importance of implementing a strategy that robustly challenge the root causes
that perpetuate

Despite legal, institutional and programmatic measures, violence against women
and girls continues to affect women and girls. It continues to violate their human
rights and shatter their future to

Why Women in Technology?
Ensuring gender equality in technology and innovation is beyond
respecting and fulfilling the human rights of men and women. It
assures the initiation of diversified

Women and girls continue to experience violence in all the 
corners of their life (at home, community and offices).
23% of women age 15-49, have experienced physical 
violence and 10% have

Educating women has direct contribution to meeting SDGs 
indicators. In Ethiopia, there are promising improvements in 
educating women and girls. The percentage of girls and women 
with no

In Ethiopia, unlike the experience in the past, the risk of experiencing disasters including but not limited to flood, drought and human epidemics are 
increasing in frequency, scale, and intensity

As is the case in other economic opportunities, there is gender disparity 
in accessing finance. In Ethiopia, although access to finance in general 
is perceived to be the main business environment

Back in September 2022, amidst a workshop 
on Women Economic Empowerment sponsored by UN WOMEN and ActionAid, Ms. 
Fanos, Deputy Manager of the cooperative, 
explained about the situation her