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STRACE-II Community Engagements

The Center for Human Rights is currently implementing the STRACE-II project which has a sub project that addresses its community engagement endeavors. This sub-project titled “Community Based Human Rights Promotion and Protection” has delineated several activities including providing trainings and refresher workshops for community level rights promoters and human rights trainers, building the capacities of local governments and CSOs, supporting community level rights promoters, organizing local human rights awareness raising campaigns, and providing legal and administrative support for vulnerable groups. Moreover, the sub-project also organizes local advisory committee meetings that include key stakeholders from government agencies, CSOs and membership based associations with the aim of planning activities, monitoring their progresses in time and also evaluating their overall implementation with the view to forging sustained and orchestrated implementation to promote, respect and protect the human rights of particularly vulnerable segments of peoples in all the project sites.

  • During the first year of STRACE-II (2023), CHR carried out the following activities as part of its community engagement project;
  • Capacity Building of Local Non-Governmental Actors:A total of 73 members (36 female, 37 male) from community-based associations were trained in the rights and protection needs of women, persons with disabilities, children, workers, and migrants.The training took place in different project areas, with 36 participants trained in Ambo Project Area and 37 participants trained in the remaining four Project Areas.
  • Community Rights Promoters (CRPs):Ten CRPs were retained in each project area for public awareness rising.CRPs provided various services including basic legal advice, awareness raising campaigns, referral services, and distribution of promotional materials to the community.
  • Radio programs were broadcast in Amharic and Afaan Oromo languages.Art performances were held in schools, market gatherings, and transportation stations.
  • Human Rights Training for Local Government Officials:A three-day training was conducted for local government officials involved in women's and social affairs, police departments, labor bureaus, courts, and social work.A total of 117 government officials (55 female, 62 male) participated in the training.