Afar

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2011 – 2015 Primary

Implementing Partner: Pact

Other Implementing Partner(s): FHI 360, ChildFund International (CFI), and numerous local NGOs

Regions of Operation: Nationwide in urban and semi-urban areas

Goal:

Improve well-being by strengthening care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children and their families or caretakers by strengthening systems and structures to deliver quality essential services and increase resiliency.

Objectives:

Date of Operation: 2008 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: African Network for Care of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (ANECCA)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Build capacity at primary health care level for providing quality comprehensive pediatric HIV treatment, care and support of HIV services.

Objectives:

• Strengthen technical capacity for improved delivery of pediatric HIV services at health center level through training of service providers
• Promote and support application of skills for delivery of quality and comprehensive pediatric HIV services through support supervision and clinical mentoring
• Facilitate decentralized pediatric HIV service delivery with appropriate resource materials
• Strengthen linkages between facility-based pediatric HIV and orphans and vulnerable children services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2012 – 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Other Implementing Partner(s): Centre for Counselling, Nutrition and Health Care (COUNSENUTH), DAI, Helen Keller International (HKI), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)

Regions of Operation: National

Goal:

Improve the quality, reach and impact of HIV services.

Project Objectives:

• Strengthen the quality and reach of nutrition care services for people living with HIV.
• Anti-retroviral treatment and care services

Description:

Date of Operation: 2010 – 2015

Primary Implementing Partner: Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV)

Other Implementing Partners: World Health Organization (WHO), Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve case detection and treatment success rates of TB in Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

• Assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in scaling up of drug management of Multi-Drug Resistant TB (MDR-TB)
• Strengthen laboratory networking
• Assist the GoE in the coordination of the TB control program

Description:

TB CARE I assists the GoE in addressing the country’s TB-specific challenges, including extremely low case detection, the emergence of multi-drug resistant (MDR) TB, and TB/HIV co-infection. To address these challenges, TB CARE I provides support on a national level in four major technical areas:

Date of Operation: 2007 – 2017

Primary Implementing Partner: CORE Group

Other Implementing Partners: Care, ChildFund International (CFI), World Vision, Plan, African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), Save the Children, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), International Rescue Committee (IRC), Mekane Yesus Church, Hararghe Catholic Secretariat, Pastoralist Concern, Alem Tena Catholic Church

Regions of Operation: Nationwide, with a focus on pastoralist and hard-to-reach areas

Goal:

To support the eradication of polio from Ethiopia.

Project Objectives:

• Narrow the challenging gaps of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance and immunization in emerging regions and hard-to-reach areas
• Conduct active surveillance, immunization campaigns and advocacy and awareness creation events

Description:

Date of Operation: 2011-2016

See also: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Transformations for Enhanced Resilience (WATER) Project, Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: Save the Children Consortium

Other Implementing Partners: CARE, International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Mercy Corps

Regions of Operation: Afar, Oromia and Somali

Goal:

Protect and strengthen the lives and livelihoods of pastoralists and ex-pastoralists.

Project Objectives:

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2013

Primary Implementing Partner: World Learning Inc.

Other Implementing Partner(s): Tigrai Development Association (TDA)

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Provide quality comprehensive services to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS in primary schools, with a focus on improving retention and learning achievements.

Objectives:

• Support school enrollment, attendance, and academic achievement of OVC
• Engage teachers, caregivers, and other young people to provide OVC psychosocial support
• Provide supplementary nutrition and critical health services
• Create a protective environment and increase access to legal services
• Ensure safe shelter and stable and loving care arrangements for OVC
• Increase household income

Description:

See also: Crosscutting Issues, Good Governance

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: Pact

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Develop an ethic of civic leadership and responsibility in growing youth that will help to produce a young generation with strong self-esteem who participates in community services and promotes peace, tolerance, respect, equality, justice and dignity.

Objectives:

See also: Crosscutting Issues

Date of Operation: 2009 – 2014

Primary Implementing Partner: FHI 360

Other Implementing Partner(s): Pact

Regions of Operation: Nationwide

Goal:

Improve the quality of primary education through the development of teachers’ professional capacity, provision of supplementary reading materials to support instruction and strengthening of the planning and management capacity of the primary education system.

Objectives: