Ethiopia Resource Centre
Systems Effects of Integrated Community Case Management Projects: Ethiopia Country Report
Save the Children US’ Department for Global Health (DGH) funded an embedded case study of systems effects of successive integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) projects implemented in Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The study was implemented ...
Read moreFighting for Breath in Ethiopia: A call to action to stop children dying from Pneumonia
Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities Disproportionately ...
Read morePractical Pathways to Integrate Nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Around the world, more than one in five children under the age of five experience hunger and chronic malnutrition, which can irreversibly damage their physical and cognitive development. Tackling malnutrition and ensuring that children lead a healthy ...
Read moreCommunity-based Surveillance of Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Drought-affected Northern Ethiopia
Children separated from their caregivers in humanitarian emergencies are vulnerable to multiple risks. However, no field-tested methods exist to capture ongoing changes in the frequency and nature of separation in these contexts over the course of a ...
Read moreUSAID's Building the POTENTIAL of Youth Activity
Launched in 2015, USAID's Building the Potential of Youth Activity (POTENTIAL) is implemented by Save the Children and its partners: Education Development Center inc. (EDC), Facilitators for Change (FC), HUNDEE-Oromo Grassroots Development Initiative ...
Read moreCommunity-Based Care in Ethiopia: Implementing a Demand Creation Strategy for Improved Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Outcomes
This report is a process documentation report summarizing the Maternal Newborn and Child Health-Community Based Newborn Care (MNCH-CBNC) Demand Creation process undertaken by the USAID-funded Maternal Child Survival Program (MCSP) to support the effective ...
Read moreAddressing the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in the Horn of Africa
Protracted crises resulting from prolonged conflict, recurring drought, and natural hazards, as well as cycles of displacement characterize several parts of the Horn of Africa (HoA). The scale of crises, stretched resources and the need to support communities ...
Read moreAchieving True Early Action: A summary of Save the Children's learning from 3 pilot projects to mitigate slow onset food and nutrition crises (2014-2017)
In many countries, resilience and development gains continue to be undermined by recurrent, predictable slow onset food and nutrition crises. Despite early warning signs, the humanitarian community is slow to react, only after lives and livelihoods already ...
Read moreHorn of Africa One Year On Report: Helping children and their families survive the gripping impact of the drought in 2017
The Horn of Africa has been grappling with the effects of consecutive failed rains across Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia that led to 12 million people in need of humanitarian assistance at the start of 2017. Save the Children’s response over the past ...
Read moreRights of Migrants in Action: Child protection projects – Synthesis report of lessons learned in Benin, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia
The “Rights of Migrants in Action” (RoMiA) was a global project that aimed to protect and promote the rights of migrants while harnessing the knowledge and building the capacity of civil society organizations (CSO). The project focused on enforcing ...
Read moreMeasuring Separation in Emergencies: Community-based monitoring in rural Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia
The Measuring Separation in Emergencies (MSiE) project is an interagency initiative under the Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and coordinated by Save the Children ...
Read morePreventing Violence Against Refugee Adolescent Girls: Findings from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Ethiopia
Interpersonal violence is a critical public health concern in humanitarian contexts, but evidence of effective violence prevention programmes targeting adolescent girls is lacking.The researchers investigated the efficacy of a life skills and safe spaces ...
Read moreFrom Leaving Home to Setting up Shop
According to the International Labor Organization, in 2016, there were 150 million migrant workers in the world – 66.6 million of them were women. In Ethiopia, poverty, unemployment and family pressure to earn money, combined with low public awareness ...
Read moreEmpower Her, Protect Them: Evaluating the integration of family planning and immunizing services
In 2015, the Pfizer Foundation launched a pilot program with four international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) in five African countries (CARE, Benin; IRC, Ethiopia and Uganda; World Vision, Kenya; Save the Children, Malawi). The grant program, ...
Read moreThe Long-Term Effects of Universal Primary Education: Evidence from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda
This paper exploits the roll out of universal primary education (UPE) policies in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda as natural experiments to assess their long-term causal effects on schooling attainment, adolescent sexual and reproductive health behavior, ...
Read moreCompromised Futures: East Africa's drought and conflict crisis' impact on children's wellbeing
Persistent drought and conflict has caused devastating food insecurity across East Africa with multiple, dire, and potentially long-term effects on children. Besides being an immediate threat to children's survival in terms of health and well-being, ...
Read moreAdolescents in Transition in the Horn of Africa
Cycles of drought, conflict and political instability in the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia) continue to impact the wellbeing of children, and the situation is getting worse with the frequency of crises and growing population pressures. ...
Read moreCommunity Based Child Protection as a Strategy for Protecting South Sudanese Refugee Children: A case study from Gambella, Ethiopia
This case study describes the role of community-based child protection committees (CPCs) in improving the safety and protection of children in three South Sudanese refugee camps in Gambella, Ethiopia. Two years of intensive work by the CPCs in the ...
Read moreA Safe Place to Shine: Creating opportunities and raising the voice of adolescent girls in humanitarian settings
For girls, adolescence is an exceptionally challenging time, where they encounter new social barriers that may jeopardize their health, independence, and safety. In humanitarian crises, this insecurity is amplified. Institutions that girls would normally ...
Read moreYouth Transitions in the Horn of Africa: A Study on Youth Migration and Save the Children Programming in the Arid Lands of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia
A major shift in humanitarian approaches to protracted crises began following the 2010/11 drought in the Horn of Africa (HoA). The scale of the suffering combined with the failure of the international humanitarian system and governments in the region ...
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