Third Quarter

CORHA in collaboration with the then Ministry of Women, Children and Youth prepared the 2nd National Youth Status Report – Ethiopia 2018. The report was printed in 300 copies and distributed to concerned sector ministries, civil society organizations, donors and other partners. The official dissemination of the report was held during the celebration of International Youth Day on 13th August 2019 at Capital Hotel by the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth.

Ministry of Health developed comprehensive National AY Health Strategy (2016 – 2020) with accompanied implementation guideline with service provision standards, minimum service delivery package, and quality and coverage measurement tools.

The ministry of health has established different quality structures including technical working groups and learning platforms. MoH endorsed the Ethiopian Hospital Service Transformation Guideline (EHSTG) and Ethiopian Health Centres Reform Implementation Guidelines (EHCRIG) which have chapters on operational standards for pharmacy services and medical equipment management. These guidelines have indicated performance standards and guidance to ensure efficient and quality service delivery in hospitals and health centres.

Conducted the round 6 of PMA2020 where a Snapshot of Indicators were disseminated among partners. In addition, collaborated with the Guttmacher Institute, questions related to the implementation of the Global Gag Rule were added in the 2018 round. A follow-up survey will be conducted in early 2020.

MSI-E has conducted capacity assessment on research, service, mentorship and clinical audit functions of the public teaching hospitals labelled as Centre of excellence with the purpose building capacity towards those functions. Moreover, conducted health centre assessment to know the level of readiness and functionality pertaining to FP services.

CORHA in collaboration with the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth has been conducting the National Assessment of the Effectiveness of Youth Personality Development Centers in Ethiopia. The general objectives of this national assessment is to understand the extent to which the youth centers in Ethiopia are serving the intended purpose of promoting the development of young people including the friendly and quality provision of SRH services. The assessment is critically important to know the current status of youth centers and serve as policy and program input for future interventions.

DKT has conducted market analysis studies. DKT/E also uses its own HMIS that records sales data and generates results making analysis that compliment national statistics. In 2018 alone, 4,140,024 CYPs from $9,308,304 donor funding had been met.

Conducted mini –DHS survey (2019) and the preliminary results disseminated to partners

CORHA organized tailored training on Human Rights-based Approach to strengthen the capacity of UNFPA implementing partners to address adolescent youth development issues. The training was organized particularly for implementing partners (IPs) drawn from Addis Ababa and Oromiya regions. A total of 23 (10 female and 13 male) staffs of IP from Bureau of children, women and youth, labor and social affairs, Regional HAPCO, Health bureau and CSOs working on adolescent and youth with especial emphasis on SRH, Gender, and child protection.

Pre-service training curricula revised with CRC principles CRC incubation centers established Experience sharing on professionalism and ethical practices in the health care for the health workforce was conducted