ESSSWA’s Project Experiences
Projects information
Assignment Name:
1. Strengthening Public Sector Social Service Systems in Ethiopia (SPSSSSE) Project Country: Ethiopia
Location within country: Four regions and two city administrations, namely: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
Name of Client: USAID and Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Address: Addis Ababa, Arada Sub-city, Woreda 09 Queen Elzabeth Street – Arat Kilo; Tel +251-111223450, Email: [email protected]
Duration of assignment (months): 3 years
Start date (month/year): October 1, 2013
Completion date (month/year): September 30, 2016
Total No of-staff months of the assignment: Six staff members with 216 calendar months.
Name of associated Contractors, if any: Ministry of Education and its TVETs.
Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): 2 million USD.
No of professional staff-months provided by associated Contractors: 27 staff for 700 calendar months
Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed (indicate most significant profiles such as Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader etc):
1. Zelalem Anteneh – Director
2. Tewodros Bely – Coordinator
3. Endeshaw Yemane- Project Officer
4. Fantahun Gobezie – Project Officer
5. Mengesha Wudu – MELS Officer
6. Kelemua Birhanu – Finance Officer
Narrative description of Project:
ESSSWA is currently implementing a three-year US AID-funded project titled: “Strengthening Public Sector Social Service Systems in Ethiopia” (SPSSSSE). The ultimate purpose of the project aims at improving the social services system in Ethiopia with primary focus on strengthening social service delivery system and workforce development in the country. The project is working with MoLSA, regional BoLSAs and TVET agencies to train and build the skills of 4,000 Para-professionals and community level social workforce in Amhara, SNNNP, Oromia, Tigray regions and Dire Dawa and Addis Ababa city administrations. The result is that 490 trainees graduated and deployed and over 1000 were under training in the reporting period.
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:
Some of the major services rendered by ESSSWA’s staff are:
- Developing partnership and networking among major public sector social service providing institutions like Amhara, Oromia, Dire Dawa, Addis Ababa, SNNP BoLSAs and TVET Agencies, and Pact Ethiopia OVC program to provide quality and sustainable social services, Awareness created among major public sector social service providing institutions on effective delivery of quality and sustainable social service to the community,
- Capacities of 49 TVETs strengthened in curriculum development through and in materials supports and training,
- Training provided for BoLSA (regional) and ZoLSA (zonal) officials in Amhara Regional State.
- 490 Community Service Workers trained and graduated in Amhara and Oromiya Regional States and started rendering social services to the vulnerable population.
- 1124 pre-service trainees enrolled for the training in 9 polytechnic TVET colleges
- Data base established and started capturing social service trainees’ profile, services provided to them and their deployment,
Assignment Name:
2. Enhancing Institutional and Research Capacities to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (EIRC - PCSAE) Country: Ethiopia
Location within country: All nine regional states and two city administrations
Name of Client:
Oak Foundation Address: Addis Ababa, Arada Sub-city, Woreda 09 Queen Elzabeth Street – Arat Kilo
Tel +251-111223450, Email: [email protected]
Duration of Assignment (months): 36 months
Start date: June 2015-09-14
Completion date: May 2018 Total No of-staff months of the assignment: 4 staff for 260 calendar months
Name of associated Contractors, if any:
ESSSWA’s Five Regional Chapters and 12 Partner Universities Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): 5.23 million Ethiopian Birr.
No of professional staff-months provided by associated Contractors: 15 staff for 36 calendar months
Name of senior professional staff of ESSSWA involved and functions performed (indicate most significant profiles such as Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader etc):
1. Zelalem Anteneh – Executive Director
2. Kelemua Birhanu – Finance Officer
3. Mengesha Wudu – Project Officer
4. Endalech Kassaw – Secretary cashier
Narrative Description of the Project:
The overall goal of this project is to contribute towards creating a safer environment for the growth and wellbeing of children in Ethiopia focusing on prevention of violence against children. ESSSWA, through this project intervention, will enhance quality action-research by young professionals and quality service provision by duty bearers. Assisted by this project, ESSSWA will enhance professional and institutional capacity building of itself and those actors engaged in social protection of sexually abused and exploited children. The project will also promote leaning, documenting lessons, experience sharing and dissemination of information on timely basis. Furthermore, the project aims at promoting exchange of good practices among professionals working for government and non-government organizations, which will ultimately trigger more action on the protection of child abuse and sexual exploitation. By doing this, the project strives to nurture, support and complement evidence-based implementation of projects that aim at tackling child abuse, sexual exploitation and child neglect in Ethiopia.
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Description of Actual services provides by ESSSWA:
ESSSWA supports efforts to improve capacities of practitioners, academicians and students of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology using seminars, workshops and research and ensures violence prevention and assists the implementation of the national social protection policy. ESSSWA also supports the dissemination of good practices and research findings on key child protection issues with a focus on prevention of violence against children, sexual abuse and exploitation. Eventual ESSWA’s organizational capacity , both at its secretariat office level and at the level of its regional chapters, is built in various areas enabling it to achieve its overall vision.
Assignment Name:
3. Enhancing Competences of Professionals and Institutions to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (ECOMP) Country: Ethiopia
Location within country: Four regions and two city administrations, namely: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
Name of Client: Oak Foundation Address: Addis Ababa, Arada Sub-city, Woreda 09 Queen Elzabeth Street – Arat Kilo
Tel +251-111223450, Email: [email protected]
Duration of assignment (months): 36 months
Start date (month/year): March 2011, 2013Completion date (month/year): February 2014, Total No of-staff months of the assignment: 3 staff for 108 calendar months
Name of associated Contractors, if any:
ESSSWA’s Four Regional Chapters and Six Partner Universities Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): 4.5 million Ethiopian Birr.
No of professional staff-months provided by associated Contractors: 10 staff for 30 calendar months
Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed (indicate most significant profiles such as Project Director/Coordinator, Team Leader etc):
4. Samuel Lule – Director
5. Martha Workneh – Finance Officer
6. Endalech Kassaw- Secretary Cashier
Narrative description of Project:
The Oak Foundation supported project on: “Enhancing Competences of Professionals and Institutions to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (ECOMP)” has also contributed greatly in building ESSSWA’s centre of excellence in activities related to child sexual abuse and exploitation. As a result, ESSSWAs’ seminar series, publications, research outputs and overall project implementation experiences have been instrumental to make the situation of child protection, child sexual abuse and exploitation in Ethiopia to be more recognized. The documentation and learning achievements of the projects has created better access to thousands of professionals at national and regional levels to share their knowledge, skills and experiences.
Description of actual services provided by your staff within the assignment:
Major among the services provided were:
- By the financial support of this project, ESSSWA has been enabled to develop and implement its Strategic Plan (2012 -2016). The strategic plan has guided all its actions and helped to realize its mission by responding to emerging social issues.
- Capacities improved on the use of a standard service provision guideline with key partners, training institutions, service providers working with vulnerable children for 320 beneficiaries;
- Closely worked with six training universities to introduce the standard service provision guideline to teachers and students of sociology, social work and anthropology for 600 participants,
- Capacity developed and seminars organized on themes of vulnerable children, and men and boys engagement delivered for over 1000 students at six partner universities, in three regional chapters;
- Organized annual research and development dissemination conference to 400 participants using annual conferences of ESSSWA,