Global Health Initiative

• USAID Transform: Primary Health Care: The activity contributes to ending preventable child and maternal deaths and improving engagement with the Government of Ethiopia on the implementation of its new Health Sector Transformation Plan. It will focus primarily in the areas of maternal, newborn, and child health; family planning and reproductive health; and malaria.

• Strengthening Human Resources for Health: Supports gender equality through a range of activities and programs aimed at pushing back against deep-rooted discriminatory ideas about female students and female professionals. These ideas include limits on a woman’s ability to work outside the house and the belief that women do not belong in traditionally male-dominated fields. In addition to supporting female students, the activity addresses institutional policies, cultures, and norms within systems that may be perpetuating ingrained inequalities. We provide direct funding, capacity building, and technical support to the gender offices of 52 higher education institutions and to student gender clubs. 

Feed the Future Initiative

• Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development: Support the Government of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Plan by improving smallholder incomes and nutritional status through investments in selected livestock value chainsLivestock Market Development.

• Feed the Future Ethiopia Growth Through Nutrition: Increase women’s access to extension services, credit, and production inputs; promoting livelihoods opportunities that integrate gender equality and achieve nutrition objectives; promoting opportunities for women and girls’ leadership as community development agents, serving as role models to other females; engaging male household members in project discussions around key issues, such as time allocation or financial decision-making and household budgeting that impact gender equality and ultimately nutrition; reducing workloads for new mothers and redistributing workloads among family members and promoting affordable labor saving technologies.

• Pastoralist areas Resilience Resiliency Improvement and Market Expansion: Creates equitable gender norms in household decision-making to increase community support for fodder production and hay-making, herd management, savings culture, and climate-smart decision-making.

• Livelihoods for Resilience: Gives special attention to women’s decision making over household income as well as priority attention to access to inputs, services, resources and information, market linkages and micro credit support for female-headed households.

Democracy and Governance

• Enhancing the Status of Human Rights Protection and Systems of Good Governance in Ethiopia: This activity addresses gender-based violence through rule of law programming. Justice officials, including police officers, are trained to support victims of gender-based violence, including female genital mutilation, and child marriage. Officials are sensitized in best practices to work with and protect victims, as well as prevent female genital mutilation and child marriage. USAID supports legal aid clinics that also provide victims of gender-based violence with legal assistance. Through such awareness raising and training, USAID programs contribute to creating a more permissive environment for women to report abuse and receive support, in addition to improving the enforcement of laws against gender-based violence, female genital mutilation, and child marriage.

Grants to Civil Society Groups

• Afar Community Based Reproductive Health Project: Help community members, community leaders and level government officials to better understand reproductive health issues, develop awareness and sensitivity on the problems and improve their health seeking behavior.

• Enhancing the Capacity of NGOs for Quality Family Planning/Maternal and Child Health Services: Improve the capacity of CORHA Secretariat and its member organizations to provide quality family planning/maternal and child health information and services.

• Environmental Entrepreneur Program: Enhance the livelihoods of rural unemployed, destitute, landless youth and women through increased production and productivity of reclaimed hillside lands using proven, affordable, and sustainable technologies and approaches.

• Increasing Youth and Women's Involvement in Peace Building: Increase youth and women's involvement in peace building in Jimma Zone, Oromia Region.

• Reproductive Health/Family Planning: Promote reproductive health/family planning.