Ensuring realization of socio-economic rights of women through enhancing capacity of women’s associations and promoting dialogue in good governance and women’s rights protection
Project Objectives
The overall objective of this project was to strengthen dialogue and awareness towards the progressive realization of the socio-economic rights of women and contribute to the achievements of the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) component on women’s empowerment and good governance. NEWA implemented the project in Addis Ababa, Gambella and Amhara region with its partner organizations.
Implementing partner: please add the below instead of partners
NEWA and Co Applicants: Amhara Women Association (AWA), Gambella Region Women Association (GRWA), Women Can Do It (WCDI)
Results
The project registered impressive results in undertaking women’s empowerment actions that contributed to safeguarding women’s socio-economic rights. The project has implemented activities that resulted in enhanced women’s and girls’, as well as other stakeholders’, capacity that helped the community, women, men, service providers and decision-makers understand and act towards gender equality. Notably, the project achieved the following results: