Husband’s household plan
Gender Model Family (GMF) training conducted at Goljano, Somali region from Feb 25-27, 2025. Save the Children Somali field office, Goljano woreda health, education, agriculture women and social affair officers were among the trainees of first round. After the training these trainees became facilitator for GMF couples training. The training was practical and culture sensitive. Training participants identified traditional notions of gender roles and responsibilities in Somali region and in Goljano woreda. To analyse these participants listed daily activities of men and women side by side. Waking up early in the morning and going to spleen lately, cooking food, caring children, building traditional houses were some of the roles of Somali women. After through discussion training participants understand that there were inequalities in household tasks. Sharing these responsibilities benefits the family economically and socially. Participants developed household level action plan to enhance family dialogue and engage all family members in decision-making. Accordingly, husbands planned to support their spouse in household chores like fetching water and caring children. Gender norms and social expectations can have a significant impact on nutrition status of women. Community engaging approaches is important to develop positive attitudes through behavioral change intervention. GMF is instrumental to leverage provision equal opportunities within the families. #GMF #Gendernorm #ECSC-SUN
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Experience sharing visit
Ethiopian Civil Societies Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC SUN) has been implementing Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI) intervention in Tigray, Afar and Somali regions. This WEE & AI is intended to promote Gender equality through women empowerment for better nutrition outcome. That is why the project focused on women and provided vegetable seedlings, dairy goat/sheep and agricultural hand tools last year. Using the provided skill and input target groups are trying to produce nutritious food, to consume diversified food and to change feeding practice. There are differences in the agroecology of the regions, working culture of the community and commitment of the implementing partners. Accordingly, their performance varies among the intervention areas. To facilitate learning from one to another, experience sharing visit was arranged in Tigray region, Kelete Awlalo) woreda, Wukero area. During the visit, demonstration of school gardening was observed in Tahitay Hade Qesanded primary school. Then three of the project participants’ home gardening was visited. Target groups in Tigray produced vegetable using small plot of land and plastic bags for vertical farming methods. They used natural fertilizer to boost the productivity of fruit and vegetable. Not only consume what they have produced, they also earned money by selling the execs product. Preparing diversified food and feeding their children nutritious food helped target groups to maintain their children’s health and growth. They have money saving mechanisms like Ekub that helps them to start poultry production by their own effort, using saved money. Not only that, but they also used home grown technology to construct/build chicken coop. After the visit through discussion held and experience shared. According to the visiting team from Afar and Somali, they are inspired with what they have observed. They plan to transfer the knowledge and skill they got from the visit to their communities as get back home. As to the visitors, social and behavioral change communication works are highly needed to use resources properly in their respective villages.
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Refresher training rendered
Ethiopian Civil Societies Coalition for Scaling Up Nutrition (ECSC SUN) successfully completed skill and knowledge training, which was rendered at Mekelle town from February 5-7,2025. ECSC SUN has been implementing Women Economic Empowerment and Adolescent Initiative (WEE & AI) intervention in 3 regions. This pilot project is intended to accelerate change in food production and consumption in Tigray, Afar and Somali regions. The project is aligned and implemented in collaboration with Save the Children Gender Equality Program (GEP) in Afar and Somali as well as Mums for Mums in Tigray regions. To upgrade capacity of GEP staff, Government sectors and implementing partners involved in WEE and AI, the training is organized. This training has covered components like basic nutrition, adolescent nutrition and home gardening. Actors engaged in the project implantation have multi-disciplinary background and inconsistent understanding on the intersection between gender and nutrition. As a result, during previous fiscal year some implementation gaps were observed. According to participants, the training enabled all actors in process be on same page, improve quality of implementation and, avoid deviation that may arise due to knowledge and skill gap. The training helps not only to equipped with home gardening skill, but also to share knowledge and experience among trainees. It is recalled that, the first phase training was delivered on May 2024 at Beshoftu. #ECSC-SUN
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