📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: SIDA - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency
Country: Ethiopia Funding amount: € 1.500.000,00 Project start: 01.12.2024 End: 31.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The overall project goal will be that empowered communities hold local governments accountable for improvement of services, peace and gender equality.
Specific outcomes will be:
1. Targeted women are economically and socially empowered and enabled to increasingly claim their rights and contribute to peace in their communities.
2. Government partners and Community based organisations (CBOs) have increased capacity and a common platform for jointly improving basic services and building peace.
3. Citizens know their rights and ensure that local development initiatives respond to their priority needs
Expected results
1. Women are organized in self-help-groups (SHGs) and derive income from profitable individual income generating activities.
2. Associations engage in advocacy, social accountability and peace building initiatives.
3. Key government partners are trained on the use of social accountability and peace building tools and engage in planning or peacebuilding activities.
4. CBOs are empowered to engage in income generating activities, social acccountability, women’s empowerment, and peacebuilding.
5. Gender-balanced Social Accountability Committees (SACs) are established or re-vitalized.
6. Citizens are aware of service standards and service quality and priority needs are assessed.
7. Citizens and service providers agree on priority development needs and these are integrated into woreda plans and budgets.
8. Citizen priorities are implemented and jointly monitored.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Target groups are women living in poverty, including women with disabilities, elderly, disadvantaged youth, people who are living with HIV or disabilities, occupational disadvantaged groups and displaced people. Approximately 100.000 persons will directly benefit from the project (65.000 from ADA's contribution). Institutionally, different CBOs, such as self-help groups (approx. 440), school clubs, women peace forums etc. and local government offices (administration) will be targeted.
JeCCDO is an Ethiopian NGO with several branch offices in Amhara and Oromia and an office in Sidama and will implement in most target woredas through its own structures. In Debre Tabor in South Gondar Zone, the Beza Community Development Association (BCDA) will be implementing the activities due to its longstanding experience there.
The project will be implemented in the cities and towns of Amhara (Bahir Dar, Debre Markos, Debre Tabor, Debre Birhan City, Shewa Robit and Debre Sina), Oromia (Bishoftu, Black River and Shashemene), and Sidama (Hawassa City).
Activities
Capacity building trainings, along with material support; grants to the SHGs to engage in income generating activities; market linkage activities; awareness raising sessions and radio
