Increased school completion rate of girls at 24 primary and 4 secondary schools and support their skills development in Digelu and Tijo, Heban Arssi and Akaki District.
Directly involved: 14.765 women: 13.098 girls in 28 schools, 110 girls in training and 27 interns, 1.350 SHGs members and 180 single mothers. Indirectly reached: 46.508 people - parents of students, community activists, boys in schools, community conversation participants and other community members.
In Ethiopia 85% of the population lives in rural areas where women provide the majority of the agricultural labor. Their contributions often go unrecognized; their fathers and husbands often restricting access to resources and community participation. One in three women experience physical, emotional or sexual violence, 65% percent of women have experienced female genital mutilation, abduction, early marriage or domestic violence. According to a 2022 UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report, almost 10 million students are not given educational opportunities that they could gain by attending school. 55% of them are girls who leave education due to multiple cases of gender-based violence. Ethiopia is ranked among the top five countries with most non-school-going children by late 2022.The majority of girls are unable to continue secondary and tertiary school due to socio-cultural and economic barriers resulting in girls only constituting 25% of the students in the high schools.
