by Alazar Tesfaye | Jan 12, 2023 | Ethiopia, Youth
Expanding access to high-quality Adolescent Sexual & Reproductive Health (ASRH) information and services, including safe abortion (SA) and post-abortion care (PAC), is essential for adolescents’ health and wellbeing, and to prevent unintended pregnancies and...
by Esayas Meskel | Dec 5, 2022 | Advance, Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
From 7 to 9 November, a team of donors, represented by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) along with the Stiftungallianz für Afrika gGmbH (SAfA), visited three projects, which are synergized under a shared programmatic outcome located...
by Esayas Meskel | Nov 8, 2022 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Two friendly spaces for women and girls to access safe, psychosocial, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services were established in Dilla town of the Gedeo Zone in SNNP region and Bule-Hora town in West Guji Zone of the Oromia region. Both...
by Esayas Meskel | Oct 6, 2022 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Two important policy advocacy workshops were held by DSW Ethiopia in Bahir Dar and Jimma towns recently. The main aim of these advocacy platforms was to sensitize stakeholders on youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and gender policy framework. Now...
by Esayas Meskel | Sep 12, 2022 | Ethiopia, Youth
On 31 August 2022, DSW Ethiopia opened its second of six youth-friendly clinics (YFC), with the aim of providing services in the area of sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The youth development training center in Bishoftu (Debrezeit) incorporates an in-house SRH...
by Esayas Meskel | Aug 23, 2022 | Ethiopia, Youth
For the first time in many months since the peak of COVID-19 pandemic, a field visit of the Healthy Youth at Work (HY@W) project funded by the David & Lucile Packard Foundation in Ethiopia took place in Sebeta town, in the Oromia region on 16 August 2022. Sebeta...