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empowerment Aids, awareness raising<br />
Age, gender and disabled 5 Rehabilitation of disabled, Elderly people home<br />
care, Capacity Building<br />
Youth 3 Youth Clubs, cultural initiatives, awareness raising<br />
on HIV-AIDS<br />
Agriculture and Urban 2 Agro-business promotion, cooperative creation,<br />
Agriculture<br />
technical assistance<br />
Governance and Urban 2 Capacity Building and mobilisation of Iddirs<br />
Governance<br />
Advocacy and mobilisation on Urban Governance<br />
issues and Governance Resource centre<br />
Total 32<br />
* Several projects and non-project activities are not registered by BoFED and funded by <strong>the</strong> local<br />
administration, International NGOs and local fundraising<br />
** Some project have multi-sectoral focus<br />
3.1. Qualitative Information on NSA Sectoral Contributions<br />
Education<br />
o Participation of NSA: Dire Dawa Trust Fund, FSCE, ProPride;<br />
o Activities undertaken: The Education- related activities range from Urban and Rural<br />
schools construction to <strong>the</strong> delivery of Education (mainly at basic level). In this field <strong>the</strong><br />
testing and implementation of new approaches to NFE and ABE are to be considered).<br />
Several CBOs and NGOs provide additional education service to <strong>the</strong> most disadvantaged<br />
children (such as week-end classes and tutorial classes), but <strong>the</strong> leader player has to be<br />
considered ECC- SDCO<br />
o Recognition by <strong>the</strong> City Administration: <strong>the</strong> City Administration recognises <strong>the</strong><br />
activities in education because this sector is one of <strong>the</strong> priorities of <strong>the</strong> IDP and <strong>the</strong> sector<br />
for which a highly integrated range of activities and projects has been planned. Moreover,<br />
<strong>the</strong> issue of street and marginalised children is one of <strong>the</strong> most critical problematic area at<br />
urban level;<br />
HIV-AIDS, and communicable diseases<br />
o Participation of NSA: FGAE, OSSA, ECC-SDCO, ProPride, Youth Associations and<br />
Clubs, EWA.<br />
o Activities undertaken: These activities are based on raising awareness (training and<br />
continuous training fro community volunteers, centre-based activities for people affected<br />
by STDs including medical care, recreational activities, awareness raising and life skills,<br />
family planning). The most important player in this field is FGA with <strong>the</strong> largest array of<br />
services (community-based services, clinics, and centres, advocacy and raising awareness<br />
on SRH, STDs and family planning, risk reduction activities such as condoms<br />
distribution and provision of safe abortion services). FGA is followed by OSSA. Yet it<br />
has to be highlighted that, being HIV-Aids an important threat for <strong>the</strong> development of <strong>the</strong><br />
A number of grassroots youth organisations and also <strong>the</strong> regional chapter of Ethiopian<br />
Youth Association are active and are gradually structuring <strong>the</strong>ir activity and relationship<br />
with Government Bodies in charge for HIV-Aids issues. The approach is mainly based on<br />
prevention and risk reduction and also in awareness raising using different methodologies<br />
( from community action through coffee ceremony, to condom distribution, to <strong>the</strong> cultural<br />
action and personal witness on virginity of young women<br />
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