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o Approach: the approach is based on the activity of peer community mobilisers,
promoters and educators, formerly trained. These peer promoters carry out all the
activities and periodically undergo refreshment training.
Care and social empowerment for the disabled
o Participation: Cheshire services Ethiopia, Handicap International
o Activities undertaken: The high-quality services for the disabled people starting from
medical care (rehabilitation, provision of walking aids, psychotherapy for mentally
disabled, to prevention, to providing training and revolving credit for their occupation of
for income generation for the parents and guardians in case the disabled are children or
young people. This activity has an outstanding capacity building component aimed at
strengthening the capacity of public institutions such as hospitals, local health facilities
and education/training facilities for the training of physiatrist, physiotherapists, and
nurses.
o Approach: The advocacy, training and joint action with the town government related to
these activities is aimed at creating room in the policy agenda for the issue of disability,
to be considered not as a medical, but rather as a cross-cutting issue. Cheshire service is
working on this area, also with the aim of strengthening the capacity for service delivery
of national institutions. Handicap International although service delivery is an important
components is mainly focused on Institution strengthening and capacity building
Youth
o Participation: EYA, Youth Association Dire Dawa
o Activities undertaken: The activity for the youth is largely focused on cultural issues
and raising awareness at community level, formation of school clubs, library service,
condom distribution, peer education training and peer learning promotion, recreational
activities, and advocacy on youth issues, 23 Youth Clubs have been created in urban and
rural areas.
o Recognition by the City Administration: High level of City Administration recognition
and support (provision of premises, funding of activities against HIV/AIDS). At kebele
level the exchange with local authorities
o Next Steps: creation of Unions at city level.
Water supply and sanitation
o Participation: ECC-SDCOH
o Activities undertaken: digging of shallow wells, drilling of deep wells and boreholes,
reservoirs and thanks for rain water harvesting, building of distribution schemes,
empowering communities on the use and maintenance of water and water distribution
infrastructure and management of the systems;
o Results: The international networking practice launched by ECC-SDCO in the Water
Supply and Irrigation sector which involves the Aramaya University and the International
Water Management Institute IWMI
o Recognition by the City Administration: the recognition by the City Administration is
very high and the city government has involved ECC-SDCOH not only in service
provision but also in the policy making and in mainstreaming technical solutions and
approach which have revealed highly productive and low-cost
Integrated programmes (food security)
o Participation: ECC-SDCOH
o Activities undertaken: increasing the productivity of micro-agricultural activities and
differentiating crops, increasing cultivation of marketable crops, off-farm IGA.
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