This thematic area focuses on enhancing children and youth access to quality education at primary and post primary school through facilitating a conducive learning environment in collaboration with target schools, woreda and zone education offices, parent teacher associations and school administration committees.
IWCIDA strives to promote the sexual and reproductive health wellbeing of young people with a special attention to tune their knowledge, skill and attitude to strengthen their capacity to make informed decisions about their sexuality.
In livelihood program, IWCIDA facilitates unemployed girls and resource poor women organization into self-help groups and provision of the right business management skill and revolving funds to start businesses to improve their income for better life.
The social accountability program focuses on ensuring accountability and transparency among service providers and users through facilitating the service users voicing their demand as per the sector service standard and the service providers responds accordingly, in the sectors of health, education, agriculture and rural roads.
What We Do?
About Us
Ilu Women Children Integrated Development Association (IWCIDA) is a nationally operating, nongovernmental and not for profit organization established in the year 2004 and re-registered and licensed by Agency for Civil Society Organization (ACSO) as local in accordance with the Civil Society Organization’s proclamation number 1113/2019 as local organization, with the certificate and license number, 0107. It is devoted to bring about developmental changes to the country in collaboration with indigenous local community and government bodies, as well as, international and national agencies committed to reduce poverty. The major program intervention areas of IWCIDA include education, health, livelihood, social accountability, Gender and Inclusive Development, climate change and Humanitarian and emergency responses. Ilu has a good track of experience in implementing development projects in the above program areas for almost two decades in tandem with multiple local and international level development actors.
Vision and Mission
- Vision:
- IWCIDA envisions a free, inclusive, self-reliant, and prosperous society in Ethiopia.
- Mission:
- IWCIDA is committed to working with women, children, and girls, and partners to design and implement projects and programs aimed at raising their educational, social welfare, health, and economic standards thereby making them key players in nation-building.
Values
- Gender Sensitivity
- Child and women centeredness
- Mutual and genuine partnership
- Quality focused
- Community empowerment
- Commitment to excellence
- Transparency and accountability
Strategic Goal
Self-reliant society with sustainable livelihoods. Achievement of this goal will be measured by the number of women, children, and youth living above the poverty level and their changes in the standards of living.
A free, inclusive, and peaceful coexisting society in Ethiopia. The performance of this goal will be measured by positive changes in peaceful coexistence among the population, tribes, and territories in the country.
A well-resourced, effective, and efficient IWCIDA. Realization of this goal will be measured by changes in annual rating using organizational capacity and technical assessments (OCAT) and organization performance index (OPI). To achieve these goals, IWCIDA will implement the following objectives focusing on the three thematic areas.
Thematic Areas
Education Program
This thematic area focuses on enhancing children and youth access to quality education at primary and pre-primary school through facilitating conducive learning environment in collaboration with target schools, woreda and zone education offices, parent teacher associations and school administration committees. The focus emphasizes the over aged out of school children who have never been enrolled or dropped out for various reasons providing them second chance to join school.
Under this theme also, IWCIDA support rural school girls on menstrual hygiene keeping and facilitate tutorial classes for girl students’ achievement enhancement.
Health Program
IWCIDA strives to promote the sexual and reproductive health wellbeing of young people with a special attention to tune their knowledge, skill and attitude to strengthen their capacity to make informed decision about their sexuality. In addition, Ilu is also committed to enhance maternal and child health through facilitating access and creating demand of health services among the target community and thereby increase health service seeking behavior.
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Gender and Inclusive Development
Promotion of gender equity refers to the process of being fair to women and men with the objective of reducing unjust and avoidable inequality between women and men in accessing resources, job opportunities, leadership, educational opportunities, and health services. Even though there is general political will and commitment to address gender inequality, gender mainstreaming, and empowerment in several industries during the past few decades remained inadequate. This is a result of the limited ability to carry out community-based interventions that target gender using a more all-encompassing practical approach.
Climate Change
The effect of climate changes are devastating to livelihoods all over the country and addressing the disastrous impact of climate change in every aspect of people’s lives including impacts on food systems, incomes, and employment should be a priority for any development agency. IWCIDA has in its strategic plan to intervene in climate change response in Ethiopia.
Livelihood Program
In livelihood program, IWCIDA facilitates unemployed girls and resource poor women organization in to self-help groups/Village saving and loan association and provision of the right business management skill and revolving funds to start business to improve their income for better life. Besides, Ilu facilitates skill capacity buildings on cloth tailoring, ICT and bee keeping for unemployed young people with a drive to help them start their own income generation activities.
Multi-sector intervention Program
The social accountability program focuses on ensuring accountability and transparency among service providers and users through facilitating the service users voicing of their demand as per the sector service standard and the service providers responds accordingly, in the sectors of health, education, agriculture and rural roads.
Emergency Response
While IWCIDA have not intervened directly in the war and conflict situation in Ethiopia, it will intervene in mitigation measures against the impacts of the conflicts on the communities in the regions it operates by factoring in humanitarian response mechanisms to support displaced persons. Families fleeing the conflicts are becoming internally displaced in safer regions of Ethiopia contributing to the swelling number of street families. IWCIDA has been addressing IDPs in conflict zones as part of emergency program interventions because of fighting between armed groups and government soldiers.
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