by Esayas Meskel | Oct 6, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
World Contraception Day in Ethiopia took place for this first time ever this year, and DSW were right in the thick of the action. On September 26, 2016, a half full day of intensive panel discussion was held at DSW Youth Development Training Center in Debrezeit...
by Esayas Meskel | Jul 27, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
DSW Ethiopia Observes World Population Day ‘World Population Day’ was celebrated here in Ethiopia under the theme of “Investing in Teenage Girls.” This year’s World Population Day was observed in Ethiopia for the 23rd time since 1993. This year, the Amhara regional...
by dswen | Jun 29, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
In the summer of 1994, right after the first International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) took event in Cairo, Egypt at which DSW participated; a new thinking had paved the path for a platform to an active campaign of SRHR issues in Ethiopia by DSW....
by Esayas Meskel | Mar 25, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
By Feyera Assefa (DSW Ethiopia, Country Director) When the First World Conference on Women was organized by the United Nations in mid 1970s in Mexico, gender studies had for the first time scholarly embraced ‘women and development issue’ both as a theoretical and...
by Esayas Meskel | Mar 8, 2016 | Ethiopia, Youth Empowerment
Seven months away from the conclusion of its second phase, DSW’s project (Community-Based Responses to SRH/FP & Livelihood Needs of Married Adolescent Girls and Young Women) in East Wellega Zone has been reviewed by the high level stakeholders. On...