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Ethiopia
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agencies operate at each of these levels of
aGovernment and they all have women’s affairs igovernment
departis
(the federal and Woreda levels), and gender focal
s (at the
Kebele level).
inment
iments
ipoints
The horizontal axis shows a system of co-ordinapof
of gender-in-development activities among ption pzpns,
government
agencies, non-governmental and civil society organi-
ations, educational research institutions (particularly
ddis Ababa University), and a number of international
notably USAID, Save the Children, UNESCO,
pApAbaba
pies,
pagencies,
UNICEF, WHO, FAO and the World Bank.
Ethiopia’s policy guidelines and the institutional
for the implementation of the policy seem
be guided by a coherent philosophy, whose underlying
rinciples
oarrangements
oguided
oto
opoiples are:
Education for overall human development, with
very special emphasis on the integration of
women into the development process.
Gender-in-development, with the development
of women as the key element.
General guidelines, capacity-building, co-ordination
at the federal level.
Practical development operational activities at
the level of the regions and other decentralized
administrative structures.
Inter-agency collaboration.
Close collaboration between government agencies
and all other development partners.