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Pact Ethiopia is working in Adolescent and Reproductive Health Interventions.
HIV/AIDS and Health
Education
Archived projects
NewslettersStories from the FieldResourcesPact has been working in Ethiopia since 1995 to improve the capacity of local organizations and communities in the areas of education, health and HIV/AIDS, orphans and vulnerable children, women's empowerment, livelihoods, democracy and governance, and peace-building. In 1995, few notable national NGOs existed in Ethiopia but the NGO sector as a whole was small, disorganized and marginal to the country's vast developmental challenges.
Since, Pact has seen the sector grow in maturity and begin to play a significant role as a partner with the national government in helping to develop the country's social and economic resources. The sector's leadership was recognized by the World Bank, which invited NGOs for the first time ever to participate in the design of the bank's poverty reduction strategy process.
Pact’s first project in Ethiopia was under a grant from USAID to strengthen the NGO sector. In 2004 Pact signed a 5 year cooperative agreement, “TEACH,” with USAID to strengthen and expand the provision of equitable basic education services through implementation of alternative basic education for children and functional adult literacy for adult learners in remote, peripheral, food insecure and pastoral areas. Pact signed a 4 year extension to the award, “TEACH II” in 2009.
Pact also receives funding from different international development agencies and private donors, including UN OCHA, SIDA, Oak Foundation, Packard Foundation, and Nike Foundation. In 1999, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation funded a project aimed at addressing reproductive health challenges facing youth in the rural areas of the Amhara and Oromia regions of central Ethiopia. In 2004, Pact received funding from SIDA to support co-operation with Civil Society organizations in the area of women’s economic empowerment and FGM.
Pact Ethiopia is currently managing a solid and diversified portfolio of projects, which include the following:
For further information please contact:Leslie MitchellCountry Representative, Pact Ethiopia lmitchell@pactworld.org Helene Rodriguez Sherman |
