Norwegian Government donates funds to UNICEF/UNFPA project (05/11/07)
 

The Government of Norway has donated 100 million Norwegian Kroner (15.4 million USD) for UNFPA/UNICEF joint five-year project titled "Right Based Approach to Adolescent and Youth Development in Ethiopia".

 
 
The project will focus for the next five years on five major regions (that are the focus of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework - UNDAF), namely Oromia, SNNPR, Amhara, Afar and Addis Ababa. These regions constitute over 80% of the Ethiopian population, and were selected based on size of adolescent and youth population, HIV prevalence, severity of Gender Based Violence, Harmful Traditional Practices (including early marriage), limited resource availability for adolescent and youth development, UNICEF and UNFPA presence and experience in those regions.

This innovative Joint Programme will give particular attention to adolescent girls and girls within marriage, orphans and vulnerable adolescents, sex workers, adolescents and youth pastoralistcommunities, and students of higher learning institutions.

The 100 million Kroner pledged by the Norwegian Government will enable UNICEF and UNFPA to dramatically scale up their interventions in support of the young and adolescent of Ethiopia; the most vulnerable and marginalized will be provided with knowledge, skills and opportunities required to make a successful transition to adulthood, and will also seek the fulfilment and respect of their rights.

Ethiopia has the second largest population in Africa; more than 40% of Ethiopia's entire population is under the age of 29, with adolescents between 10 and 18 alone comprising about 20% of the entire population.

Source: UNICEF

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