Enhancing Competences of Professionals and Institutions to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (ECOMP) Country: Ethiopia

Assignment Name: 
Enhancing Competences of Professionals and Institutions to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation (ECOMP) Country: Ethiopia
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: 
36 months
Completion date: 
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Name of associated Contractors, if any: 
ESSSWA’s Four Regional Chapters and Six Partner Universities Approx.
No of professional staff-months provided by associated Contractors: 
10 staff for 30 calendar months
Location within country: 
Four regions and two city administrations, namely: Amhara, Oromia, SNNP, Tigray, Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa.
Start date: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Total No of-staff months of the assignment: 
3 staff for 108 calendar months
Approx. value of the contract (in current US$): 
4.5 million Ethiopian Birr.
Name of senior professional staff of your firm involved and functions performed: 
1. Samuel Lule – Director 2. Martha Workneh – Finance Officer 3. 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,