Publications
Transforming Traditional Justice to Promoting Equality and Protection of VAWGs
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
Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Revitalizing Actions Against
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
Women and Technologies
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
Accelerate Actions to Fight Violence against Women and Girls - Fact Sheet
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 experienced
Educate Women and Girls to Meet SDG
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 education
Accelerate Actions on Women's Resilience
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
Expand Women's Access to Finance
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
AAE Newsletter, Jan. 2023
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
ActionAid Ethiopia's 2021 Annual Report
In the year 2021, Ethiopia managed and compounded humanitarian crisis that forced 20 million people requiring humanitarian assistance according to UNOCHA report.
ActionAid Ethiopia has been
AAE Newsletter, Sep. 2022
Recent assessment report by ActionAid Ethiopia and partners revealed that millions of people in Southeast are severely affected by an unprecedented draught caused by climate change particularly sharp