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empowerment Aids, awareness raising
Age, gender and disabled 5 Rehabilitation of disabled, Elderly people home
care, Capacity Building
Youth 3 Youth Clubs, cultural initiatives, awareness raising
on HIV-AIDS
Agriculture and Urban 2 Agro-business promotion, cooperative creation,
Agriculture
technical assistance
Governance and Urban 2 Capacity Building and mobilisation of Iddirs
Governance
Advocacy and mobilisation on Urban Governance
issues and Governance Resource centre
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* Several projects and non-project activities are not registered by BoFED and funded by the local
administration, International NGOs and local fundraising
** Some project have multi-sectoral focus
3.1. Qualitative Information on NSA Sectoral Contributions
Education
o Participation of NSA: Dire Dawa Trust Fund, FSCE, ProPride;
o Activities undertaken: The Education- related activities range from Urban and Rural
schools construction to the delivery of Education (mainly at basic level). In this field the
testing and implementation of new approaches to NFE and ABE are to be considered).
Several CBOs and NGOs provide additional education service to the most disadvantaged
children (such as week-end classes and tutorial classes), but the leader player has to be
considered ECC- SDCO
o Recognition by the City Administration: the City Administration recognises the
activities in education because this sector is one of the priorities of the IDP and the sector
for which a highly integrated range of activities and projects has been planned. Moreover,
the issue of street and marginalised children is one of the most critical problematic area at
urban level;
HIV-AIDS, and communicable diseases
o Participation of NSA: FGAE, OSSA, ECC-SDCO, ProPride, Youth Associations and
Clubs, EWA.
o Activities undertaken: These activities are based on raising awareness (training and
continuous training fro community volunteers, centre-based activities for people affected
by STDs including medical care, recreational activities, awareness raising and life skills,
family planning). The most important player in this field is FGA with the largest array of
services (community-based services, clinics, and centres, advocacy and raising awareness
on SRH, STDs and family planning, risk reduction activities such as condoms
distribution and provision of safe abortion services). FGA is followed by OSSA. Yet it
has to be highlighted that, being HIV-Aids an important threat for the development of the
A number of grassroots youth organisations and also the regional chapter of Ethiopian
Youth Association are active and are gradually structuring their activity and relationship
with Government Bodies in charge for HIV-Aids issues. The approach is mainly based on
prevention and risk reduction and also in awareness raising using different methodologies
( from community action through coffee ceremony, to condom distribution, to the cultural
action and personal witness on virginity of young women
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