The World Health Organization and Canada signed an agreement to ensure functional health services in the context of COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Through this agreement, Canada will provide
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Plan international Ethiopia and Canada and the Women Organizations /WO/ collective, through the support of global affairs Canada (GAC) has launched a five year initiative (arch 2019 to march 2024) focused on Women voice and leadership.
The project is part of a global initiative launched by GAC under the feminist international assistance policy (FIAP) which has an explicit focus on strengthening and supporting women’s organizations (WOs) and movements that advance women’s rights, gender equality, and the empowerment of women and girls, while also supporting evidence-based advocacy and program delivery for gender equality.
The project will reach over 100 WOs across four regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Addis Ababa, Oromia, and southern Nations, Nationalities and peoples’ Region (SNNPR)).
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16 December, 2020 Mariana Grepinet reporting in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2010. Alvaro Canovas/Paris Match via Getty Images
It didnât take me long to discover the kinds of barriers women face in journalism or understand their real-world impact on womenâs advancement.
I was working at a business magazine. A junior hire, I was the only woman in management in a newsroom mostly made up of older men. I recall an absurd debate when I queried why we didnât feature women on the cover, only to be told that the one time the magazine had done so, theyâd produced the worst-selling edition in its history.