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Ethiopia
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Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture
Gender mainstreaming within the department
and its various organs and services.
vements: capacity building and gender awareness
ionsibilities:
iResponsibilities:
iAchievements:
creation, a wide variety of studies (women and
culture, women participation in journalism, stereotypes
on women in oral literature, analysis of the
culture policy from a gender perspective, women
and reading).
enges: lack of appropriate follow-up to the studies.
pChallenges:
Ministry of Agriculture
women farmers and women professional
agriculturists as primary targets.
vements: ensuring that women are specifically targeted
in the five-year development agricultural sector
development plan, ensuring women participa-
oonsibilities:
oResponsibilities:
oAchievements:
tion — and that they do benefit as equal partners — in
agricultural extension services, baseline data to generate
information for mainstreaming women issues
in agricultural sector activities, research and technology
generation for the benefit of women farmers,
regular training programmes on gender issues
for agriculture sector staff, promotion – capacity
building – organization of women professional in
agriculture.
‘It’s not an easy job’.
hChallenges:
Addis Ababa (regional) Education Department
onsibilities: promotion of girls’ education.
vements: annual scholarships for girls scoring a
tResponsibilities:
tAchievements:
GPA of 3.6 and above in primary school certificate
examinations – 94 awards in 2000 and 236 in
200l/2002, special tutorials by ninety-seven educa-