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  Walk the talk: gender equality in the African Union

  UN Women, 2015

  As new United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) initiatives and development agendas commence in 2015, women throughout Africa are suffering from a disproportionate lack of resources, access to education, health and legal services, a
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  'One hand can't clap by itself': Engagement of boys and men in KMG's intervention to eliminate FGM-C in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia, EMERGE Story of Change 3

  BRIDGE, 2015

  This story of change pulls out the key findings and messages from EMERGE case study 3, which focuses on the work of Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma (KMG) in Kembatta Zone, Ethiopia. KMG works with men, boys, women and girls as part of its efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation-cutting. 
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  EMERGE Practice Brief: Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality

  Institute of Development Studies, Sussex [ES], 2015
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  ‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: engagement of boys and men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s intervention to eliminate female genital mutilation and circumcision in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide appro
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  True story - female genital mutilation in Afar, Ethiopia

  2012

  The Afar region of North-east Ethiopia has one of the country’s highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) with around 74 percent of women and girls undergoing the practice. Since 2000, a joint programme to abandon FGM in the Afar region carried out by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has made significant progress.
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  Traditional leaders wield the power, and they are almost all men: the importance of involving traditional leaders in gender transformation

  Sonke Gender Justice Network, 2010

  How can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) tackle social issues such as HIV, gender equality and violence in rural African communities? A number of them, including Sonke Gender Justice network, the Ubuntu Institute, CARE International and Zambian Women for Change (WFC) are working with traditional leaders as a gateway to reach the people in communities they are targeting.
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  The Status of Gender Based Violence and Related Services in Four Woredas (Woredas surrounding Bahir Dar town, Burayu woreda, Bako woreda and Gulele Sub-city of Addis Ababa)

  CARE Ethiopia, 2008

  Gender based violence continues to be a significant and serious human rights and public health issue in Ethiopia.
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  Comprehensive Responses to Gender Based Violence in Low-Resource Settings: Lessons Learned from Implementation

  Population Council, Zambia, 2010

  Over the past decade, many African countries have begun to recognise the importance of preventing gender based violence and responding to the needs of survivors. But due to the absence of strong, regionally-relevant evidence, national programs have tended to adopt strategies that have worked in Europe and North America.
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  Ethiopia: FGM/C Country Profile

  2005

  Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) - which refers to practices which involve cutting away part or all of a girl's external genitalia - is a widespread practice in Ethiopia. According to this FGM/C country profile of Ethiopia, 80% of women in Ethiopia have undergone some form of cutting, and 52% of women report that at least one of their daughters has been circumcised.
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  An Assessment of Reproductive Health Needs in Ethiopia (Chapter on Gender and the Social Context of Reproductive Health)

  World Health Organization, 1999

  In the years since the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, Ethiopia has begun to grapple with the need to assess a broader range of reproductive health issues. This is most notable in the creation in 1996 of its national Health Sector Development Programme - a 20-year effort to achieve universal access to essential primary health care services.

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