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Ethiopia<br />
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Raising awareness among different classes in<br />
society.<br />
Building capacity at different levels.<br />
Progressively narrowing the gender gap, especially<br />
at the <strong>basic</strong> <strong>education</strong> level.<br />
Improving the level of awareness of the magnitude<br />
of the problems involved in enhancing the<br />
status of <strong>women</strong> in general, <strong>and</strong> in improving<br />
the participation of <strong>girls</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>women</strong> in <strong>education</strong><br />
in particular.<br />
Above everything else, putting <strong>women</strong>-in-<strong>education</strong><br />
to its proper policy pedestal, that of a high<br />
priority area of national development.<br />
Negative attitudes to the<br />
emancipation of <strong>women</strong><br />
can also be feminine.<br />
Ethiopian experience is, however, still facing a number<br />
of challenges.<br />
Co-ordination with NGOs would require a great<br />
ithiopian<br />
iThe<br />
iallenges.<br />
i<br />
deal of improvement. While the major NGOs are<br />
making ef<strong>for</strong>ts to co-ordinate their activities,<br />
<strong>and</strong> while a good number of them have built up<br />
capacity <strong>for</strong> operating at the grass-roots level,<br />
they seem to have a strong feeling that government<br />
is not fully utilizing their potentials. This<br />
feeling is strongest in the case of government<br />
activities outside the <strong>for</strong>mal <strong>education</strong> sector.<br />
The research activities of the sectoral departments<br />
seem to have yielded knowledge that<br />
can be ploughed back to the process of curriculum<br />
material development. Those responsible<br />
<strong>for</strong> the research admitted, however, that<br />
these research projects were not carried out in