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Young community leaders engaged to contribute to rebuilding trust and social cohesion in northern Ethiopia

calendar_today 02 May 2023

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Young community leaders engaged to contribute to rebuilding trust and social cohesion in northern Ethiopia

UNFPA organized a ten-day consultations on peace, security and social cohesion among youth community leaders from 18-29 April 2023 aimed at involving young people in…

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Ager's Journey to Healing from Fistula

calendar_today 26 April 2023

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Ager's Journey to Healing from Fistula

Ager, 33, is from a small rural village, Yanga, in  South Jimma, Oromia region. She was born and raised in an agrarian family with four siblings. She is the third child. Neither…

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Ensuring better maternal health outcomes through building capacity of health facilities and health professionals

calendar_today 26 April 2023

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Ensuring better maternal health outcomes through building capacity of health facilities and health professionals

Dilla City Administration, ETHIOPIA: Twenty-four-year-old Emebet Zeleke is attending her first antenatal care visit at the Harroressa Health Center in Dilla town. She is a mother…

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Stories of change: Promoting gender equality through  media intervention

calendar_today 26 April 2023

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Stories of change: Promoting gender equality through media intervention

Jimma, Oromia - Between 2020-2022, three national and FM radio stations broadcasted the Nekakat Serial Drama weekly. The magazine format drama broadcasted 338 episodes over the…

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Scaling up efforts to end obstetric fistula after conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia

calendar_today 24 April 2023

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Scaling up efforts to end obstetric fistula after conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia

Scaling up efforts to end obstetric fistula after conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia

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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Health Day

calendar_today 07 April 2023

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Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem on World Health Day

Every two minutes, a woman dies giving birth. As the clock counts down another year, 287,000 more women will meet the same tragic fate. Most of these deaths are preventable. They…

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Regional Director visits integrated SRH-GBV intervention at Industry Park

calendar_today 30 March 2023

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Regional Director visits integrated SRH-GBV intervention at Industry Park

In a visit organized to the Bole Lemi Industry Park, one of the industry parks across Ethiopia set up in recent years, the Regional Director visited a UNFPA supported integrated…

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Regional Director reiterates UNFPA’s commitment to strengthen partnership to end gender-based violence

calendar_today 23 March 2023

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Regional Director reiterates UNFPA’s commitment to strengthen partnership to end gender-based violence

Visiting the UNFPA supported safe house for survivors of gender-based violence run by the Association of Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD), the Regional Director…

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Launching Commemoration of UNFPA's 50 years in Ethiopia

calendar_today 23 March 2023

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Launching Commemoration of UNFPA's 50 years in Ethiopia

UNFPA Launched 50th Anniversary celebrations in Ethiopia. The ceremony kicked off a year-long commemoration of the 50th anniversary of UNFPA in Ethiopia. 

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