Ethiopia Resource Centre
Spotlight Series: Ending child marriage for gender equality
Gender-based violence against girls: Ending child marriage and accelerating progress for gender equality Save the Children’s Spotlight series is a collection of country briefings to support national-level advocacy through the latest data and analysis ...
Read moreReimagining Girls’ Education: Solutions to keep girls learning in emergencies
Girls in emergencies are facing several challenges related to education, such as disadvantages at all stages of education, struggle to learn, and higher risk of being out-of-school. This material provides an empirical overview on how to support the learning ...
Read moreUnderstanding the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation: A statistical overview of their co-occurrence and risk factors
The well-being of millions of girls around the world is threatened by child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM). Both child marriage and FGM have existed for generations due to gender inequality. In many countries where both practices are common, ...
Read moreContext-acceptability Theories: Example of family planning interventions in five African countries
Family planning (FP) can lengthen birth intervals and potentially reduce the risk of fetal death, low birth weight, prematurity, and being small for gestational age. Effective FP is most easily achieved through access to and acceptability of modern contraceptive ...
Read moreThe Secondary Impacts of COVID-19 on Women and Girls in Sub-Saharan Africa
This rapid review focuses on identifying evidence on the secondary impacts of COVID-19 on women and girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It aims to enable a greater understanding of the unique circumstances of women and girls in the region, which could ...
Read moreImproving Adolescent Reproductive Health and Nutrition Through Structural Solutions in West Hararghe Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia Abdiboru Project Final
The objective of the project was to empower girls in rural West Hararghe, Ethiopia, through improved reproductive health, nutrition, and education. Ethiopia is characterized by a high level of early marriage. For many girls, early marriage results in ...
Read moreBarriers to Women and Girls’ Participation in Electoral Processes in Ethiopia and Policy Responses
This report focuses on the main barriers to women and girls’ meaningful participation in electoral processes and evidence of what works to overcome these. The report also considers the role of various other elevated risk factors in Ethiopian society ...
Read moreSponsorship Programs Annual Report 2019
Sponsorship Programs contribute to Save the Children’s vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. In 2019 Sponsorship administered $53 million of lifeenhancing programs that directly ...
Read moreStakeholder Mapping in Mixed Migration Flows of Children and Youth in East and Horn of Africa
Over the past years, the world has witnessed record levels of mixed migration, mainly originating from and hosted within developing countries. Individuals and families migrate for a variety of reasons, some choose to leave to seek education and employment ...
Read moreLiving in Chains: Shackling of people with psychosocial disabilities worldwide
Hundreds of thousands of people, both adult and children around the globe with mental health conditions have been shackled at least once in their lives. Inadequate support and mental health services, as well as stigma concerning people with psychosocial ...
Read moreConflict and Violence and Mixed Migration Flows of Children and Youth in East and the Horn of Africa
Over the past years, the world has witnessed record levels of mixed migration, mainly originating from and hosted within developing countries. Individuals and families migrate for a variety of reasons, some choose to leave to seek education and employment ...
Read moreRetrospective Impact Evaluation: Save the Children’s Sponsorship Programming in Woliso Impact Area, Ethiopia (2002-2010)
This is the final report of a retrospective impact evaluation conducted of Save the Children’s Sponsorship program in Woliso, Ethiopia (2002-2010). The aim of the evaluation was to: Assess the long-term intended and unintended, both positive and negative, ...
Read moreGrowth through Nutrition Midterm Evaluation Program Review Report
Save the Children leads the implementation of Feed the Future’s (USAID) Growth through Nutrition (GtN) project in Ethiopia. This internal evaluation report primarily analyzed successes and challenges of implementation from the baseline to the mid-point ...
Read moreGirls on the Move in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan
Over the past years, the world has witnessed record levels of mixed migration, mainly originating from and hosted within developing countries. Individuals and families migrate for a variety of reasons, some choose to leave to seek education and employment ...
Read moreImplementing the Global Compact on Refugees for children: Examples of child-focused work
At the time of writing, children make up over half of the world's refugees. These children face severe protection issues, and their care and development needs often go unmet. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, the situation for refugee ...
Read moreChildhood Morbidity and its Determinants: Evidence from 31 countries in sub-Saharan Africa
The global under-five mortality rate reduced from 93 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 39 per 1000 live births in 2018. Still, the rate increased in sub-Saharan Africa from 31% in 1990 to 54% in 2018. One of the main causes to these deaths is morbidity. ...
Read moreBarriers Affecting Demand for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) Services in Ethiopia
Ethiopia was one of 12 countries that met the target to reduce child mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015. During the same period, the country also reduced maternal mortality from 1,250 to 353 deaths per 100,000 births. Despite these achievements, ...
Read moreThe Political Economy of Children and Youth in East and Horn of Africa
Over the past years, the world has witnessed record levels of mixed migration, mainly originating from and hosted within developing countries. Individuals and families migrate for a variety of reasons, some choose to leave to seek education and employment ...
Read moreThe Health of Internally Displaced Children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review
Around 41,3 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) were located around the world at the end of 2018. The same year, internal displacement in sub-Saharan Africa was higher than in any other region, with approximately 7,4 million people displaced ...
Read moreA Review of Lessons Learnt on ASST Programming from the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya & Somalia
By 2035, the number of young people joining the working age population is projected to reach 1.5 billion globally, and yet, youth unemployment is already an acute challenge across low and middle-income countries. Through its Adolescent Skills for Successful ...
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