DISABILITY-ETHIOPIA: Irish Aid-ILO Partnership Programme, Phase II, 2014-15

The ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme (ILO/IA PP) has over the last decade worked in Ethiopia to promote decent work and a better life for people with disabilities through effective legislation and entrepreneurship development. Since 2002 the Programme has contributed to changes in policy, laws and programmes related to rights and employment of persons with disabilities. Ethiopia has put in place a National Plan of Action (NPA 2012-2021) for disability inclusion in all socio-economic and political spheres. The NPA requires setting up structures that coordinate the provision of inclusive programmes and services with particular focus to the employability and employment of persons with disabilities. In 2012-2013, the ILO Project ‘Promoting Rights and Opportunities for Persons with disabilities in Employment through Legislation’ (PROPEL - Ethiopia) contributed towards the formulation of the NPA, and to its implementation through supporting the establishment of implementing structures in selected regions in Ethiopia. PROPEL -Ethiopia (2014-2015) aims at strengthening the implementation of the CRPD/NPA in regions where Implementation and Coordinating Committees (ICCs) are already functional and in supporting the establishment of similar structures in the remaining regions where ICCs are not yet in place. The Project aims at enabling the Ethiopian Government, social partners and disability advocates to be actively engaged in the implementation of the UN CRPD/NPA with focus to employment, skills development and media capacity building. PROPEL -Ethiopia works with government and non-government partners, disabled persons organisations, technical and vocational training colleges, trade unions and others. Attention will be paid throughout to the need for affirmative action to ensure that women with disabilities have access to the opportunities on an equal basis with disabled men, as called for in the provisions concerning women and girls with disabilities in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is of particular importance since women with disabilities are often overlooked in policy and programme measures.

Project symbol

ETH/14/50/IRL

Admin unit

CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

01/01/2014

End date

31/12/2015

Total allocation

405435

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

394583

Development Partners

Ireland, Irish Aid

Country/Countries

Ethiopia

Outcomes

Skills Development