Beyond Numbers: Towards Gender Transformation project profile
Project Name: Beyond Numbers: Towards Gender Transformation project
Project start date: January 1st 2020
Project end date: April 30th 2021
Name of Implementing Organization: Support for Sustainable Development (SSD)
Funded By: Civil Society Support Project phase 2 (CSSP2)
Specific Location: Chifra, Ewa and Aura districts in Afar National Regional State
Total Budget: ETB 2,120, 990.00 (Two million One hundred Twenty thousand nine hundred Ninety)
Project Beneficiaries: 1,156 HHs women and girls and a total of 341,156 community members directly and indirectly.
Main government partners: Afar Bureau of Women and Children affaires and the respective office in Chifra, Ewa and Aura Woredas
Project objective: Empower women and their institutions capable of ensuring the rights of women and girls.
Key Achievements:
- Women active political participation is improved through voter education and awareness to participate on 2021 voting and as election observers.
- Women decision making on their rights is improved.
- Implementation of existing laws to fight against GBV is improved.
- Coordination and collaborative relations among WROs/CSOs, OPDs and government stakeholders is improved.
- Community response in combating GBV is improved.
