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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 ADDIS ABABA 000338 
 
SIPDIS 
 
DEPT FOR AF/E: JWIEGERT 
 
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TAGS: KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM AID CDC COM TRSY ET
SUBJECT: EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA S/GWI PROJECT PROPOSALS SUBMISSION 
 
REF:  STATE 132094 
 
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¶1.  Embassy Addis Ababa is pleased to submit the following seven 
proposals for consideration by the Secretary's Office of Global 
Women's Issues (S/GWI) for the FY 2010 Small Grants Initiative.  The 
mission's submissions are submitted in priority rank order. 
 
¶2.  First-Ranked Proposal:  KMG-Ethiopia, an indigenous non-for 
profit organization headquartered in Southern Nationalities and 
Peoples Region (SNNP), submitted a proposal entitled "Building 
Capacity of Girls and Women to Struggle for and to Protect their 
Economic and Social Well Being."  The project aims to invest in the 
education, livelihoods and leadership skills of approximately 10,000 
of the uncircumcised girls who are organized as groups in SNNP and 
who firmly stand against any form of violence and discrimination 
against their own and any women and girls in their communities.  The 
goal of the project is to "Transform the uncircumcised girls' 
movement into well organized, vibrant, and independent prototype to 
accelerate efforts towards gender equality."  It will accomplish 
this by 1) Enabling uncircumcised girls group members to have good 
knowledge of leadership, resources mapping, mobilizing and planning; 
2) Improving academic performance and 1,507 girls taking national 
and regional examinations; 3) Strengthening girls movements on 
environmental rehabilitation and soil and water conservation in 
their respective districts; and 4) Improving young women's 
leadership and helping them strengthen their fights against any form 
of violence and discrimination.  The target beneficiaries are in 
Kembatta Tembaro zone of SNNP.  KMG has proposed a budget of USD 
107,715 for this project, of which USD 7,715 in counterpart funding 
would be provided by KMG. 
 
¶3.  Second-Ranked Proposal:  The National Network of Positive 
Ethiopians (NNPWE), a network of 22 associations of women living 
with HIV, submitted a proposal for a project entitled, "Ensuring the 
Socio-Economic Security of HIV/AIDS Infected Women and 
Associations."  The project aims to reduce the socio-economic impact 
of HIV/AIDS on women.  NNPWE seeks to achieve this goal by 
increasing the income and the decision making power of women living 
with HIV; sustaining the income generating ability of member 
associations; increasing the access of socio-economic support for 
skilled women living with HIV; enhancing psycho-social status and 
capacity of women living with HIV through creating linkages and 
referral systems; and strengthening the project implementation 
capacity of NNPWE.  The project will reportedly target 2000 
beneficiaries in Wonji, Adama and Nekemte in Oromia Regional State, 
Arbaminch, Hossaena and Yergalem in SNNPR, and Mekele, Gonder, 
Dire-Dawa, and Afar.  NNPWE estimates the project will cost USD 
100,000. 
 
¶4. Third-Ranked Proposal:  Tiret Community Empowerment for Change 
Association (TCECA) is a non-governmental organization working on 
community-based capacity-building in Ethiopia since 2005.  Their 
proposal entitled, "Girl's Education: Enhancing Access and Equality 
of Primary Education with Particular Emphasis on Eliminating 
Gender-Based Violence" (GBV) seeks to effectively improve school 
environments and teaching processes to ensure all girls benefit from 
equal education, while striving to eliminate GBV.  It will 
accomplish this by 1) providing access to Early Childhood Care and 
Education to 1,300 preschool girls through the establishment of 4 
community-based ECCE and Alternative Basic Education (ABE) centers; 
2) providing educational access to 1,500 out-of-school girls through 
the establishment of 10 ABE centers to enable girls to 
enroll/continue their education; 3) improving the quality of primary 
education for 3,000 girls through the establishment and 
strengthening of 4 Child Friendly Schools, creating communication 
materials on the rights of the child, and by establishing mechanisms 
to report abuse and support victims through the school system; and 
by 4) improving the quality of primary education for over 1,000 
girls through innovative cluster-based educational interventions, 
inclusive of continuous professional development of teachers, 
development of gender-sensitive teaching-learning materials, and the 
improvement of teacher-student rapport in/outside the classroom. 
The target beneficiaries of this project reside in three Woredas, 
namely Elu, Becho and Woliso in the Southwest Shoa Zone of Oromia 
Regional State.  TCECA has proposed a budget of USD 96,468.00. 
 
¶5.  Fourth-Ranked Proposal:  Pastoralist Welfare Organization (PWO), 
a local pastoral NGO operating in Somali Region, submitted a 
proposal entitled, "Pastoral School Girls Privacy Project."  The 
project aims to improve girls' privacy at schools in order to keep 
them in school.  The project seeks to achieve this goal by 
constructing toilets in the selected schools and provide toilet 
utilization, management and hygiene training to school and 
communities.  Also, with this project 200 orphaned school girls or 
girls from poor households will receive school uniforms, exercise 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00000338  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
books, and other materials.  Further, this project seeks to create 
awareness through community conferences on the importance of 
pastoral girls' education for clan, religious and kebele leaders. 
This project will reportedly benefit 1000 girls in Dollo Ado woreda 
in Somali Region.  PWO estimates the project to cost USD 100,000. 
 
 
¶6.  Fifth-Ranked Proposal:  The Renaissance Creation-Generation Save 
Association (RCGSA), a NGO working to improve the social constraints 
related to gender imbalance, HIV/AIDS, poverty and environmental 
degradation prevailing in Ethiopia, submitted a proposal entitled 
"Kemeshi-Sirba Women Empowerment Project (KSWEP)."  The project aims 
to empower women to actively participate in community 
decision-making, development activities and other societal functions 
through promotion of reproductive health and economic development. 
The project aims to achieve these goals by focusing on factors that 
negatively influence the lives of women as well as factors that can 
improve their participation in societal functions both qualitatively 
and quantitatively; raising awareness for local women, female 
students and all concerned bodies; networking with Community Bases 
Organizations, Government Organizations and Non-Governmental 
Organizations and religious organizations. This project will 
reportedly target 900 women and 3000 high school students in 
Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State.  The RCGSA estimates that this 
project will cost USD 100,000. 
 
¶7.  Sixth-Ranked Proposal:  Awi Development Association (AwiDA), a 
NGO working to promote sustainable development in Awi, Amhara Region 
and in Metekel, Beneshangul-Gumuz Region, submitted a proposal 
entitled "Girls and Women Empowerment."  The project seeks to reduce 
the rate of early marriage in the seven counties of Awi Zone by 20% 
in 2010-2011.  AwiDA seeks to do this by conducting peer education, 
producing and distributing of information, education, communication 
materials; organize Girls' and Women's Rights Protection Committees 
in 20 kebeles; conduct an information sharing workshop to 700 
individuals; conduct public education on women's and girls' roles 
through folk media; and celebrate International Women's Day.  This 
project will reportedly benefit nearly 600,000 girls and women in 
the Awi zone of Amhara Regional State.  The AwiDA estimates that the 
project will cost USD 100,000. 
 
¶8.  Seventh-Ranked Proposal:  The Center for African Women Economic 
Empowerment (CAWEE) in Addis Ababa has submitted a proposal entitled 
"Jewelry Sub-sector Product Development and Market Promotion 
Program".   This project would employ two international consultants 
in product development to assist women-owned and women-managed 
Ethiopian jewelry manufacturers to reach the North American markets. 
 The project consultants, in consultation with relevant local 
partners, would identify six companies that have the best potential 
to attain initial export success.  These companies would not only 
benefit from the consultants' expertise, but also by participation 
in international trade fairs, one-on-one buyer and seller 
encounters, and guidance on preparing marketing materials.  The goal 
would be to assist these companies to incorporate traditional 
Ethiopian designs into modern jewelry.  Through this 18-month 
process, these jewelry companies are expected to outsource some of 
their work to at least 50 other local companies.  This project would 
impact about 1,000 individuals (primarily women) in the industry 
overall and indirectly would boost the standard of living of 
approximately 8,000 Ethiopian family members.   The proposed budget 
for the project is USD 100,576. 
 
¶9.  The projects meet the guidance provided by S/GWI and are in 
concert with current USG foreign assistance programming in Ethiopia 
in the areas of combating the practice of genital mutilation; 
improving economic development for women; reducing gender based 
violence; improving girls' education and school attendance; reducing 
girls' rate for early marriage; and empowering women in community 
decision making.  Budget annexes and proposal narratives for each 
proposal will be submitted to S/GWI by email as requested.  Projects 
selected for funding should receive, in cooperation with Post, a 
thorough review of technical designs and budget figures, in order 
for the selected projects to reflect current best practices, to 
integrate with existing programming, and to reflect local political 
and operational constraints.  If selected for funding, the managing 
office for projects executed by KMG and CAWEE will be the Political 
and Economic Section.  The contact person in the Political and 
Economic Section is Deputy Political and Economic Counselor, Kate 
Pongonis (Pongonisk@state.gov).  All other projects, if selected for 
funding, will be managed by USAID.  The contact person at USAID is 
Brendan Wheeler (BWheeler@usaid.gov). 
 
YATES