Background
Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association has been established at the federal level in 1995 by Women lawyers and re-registered as Local Organization in accordance with the Civil Society Organization. It has been working for more than 25 years to promote women's social, economic, political and legal rights to help women exercise their constitutional and other rights. The aim of the association is to promote equal participation of women in all sectors and to prevent sexual violence against women and create a safe environment for women through its three programs: Legal Research and Advocacy, Public Education and Capacity Building, and Free Legal Aid service.
The association is head quartered in Addis Ababa and has opened its regional offices in seven regions and one city administration namely Adama, Hawassa, Bahir Dar, Gambella, Asosa, Jigjiiga, Semera regions and city administration of Dire Dawa. In order to make the service accessible to all, the association is working to continue its service in the zones and woredas under its regional and city administration branches and has so far established 55 volunteer committee centers across the country.
Under the legal service program, EWLA provides free legal aid services for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors and needy women who cannot afford legal fees. The legal aid services include legal counseling, court representation, writing pleadings to courts and letters on administrative issues to government organs, assisting clients to follow up their cases with government, police, and public prosecutor’s offices (for criminal cases), mediation and reconciliation, and referral linkages.
Under the public education and capacity building program, EWLA provides different kinds of awareness creation training, seminars and workshops on women’s rights and Gender Based Violence (GBV) for law enforcement organs, people at the grass root level, including students and workers of different organizations, and stakeholders.
Under the Research and Advocacy program, EWLA undertakes research projects that are often used as a basis for advocacy, legal reform, and related programs. This greatly helps to identify the root causes of gender discrimination, which in turn can dictate prevention efforts.
Therefore, as part of its vision and mission, EWLA is a part of the consortium and implemented five year project. The “We Cannot Wait: Towards an Inclusive and Diverse Women’s Movement in the Greater Horn of Africa (WCW)” consortium seeks to remedy these gaps by building a strong and inclusive women’s movement able to effect change, focusing its work in Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia. The consortium is made up of entirely Southern-led organizations that are explicitly focused on women’s empowerment throughout the Greater Horn of Africa (GHoA). The Power of Women programme enables organizations such as SIHA and its partners in the Global South to shift power to indigenous women’s organizations and in turn share its power with grassroots individuals and groups. The WCW consortium recognizes the structural and interconnected challenges that the movement for gender equality in the Global South faces and works to enable, support and collaborate with women’s rights activists and organizations to effectively lobby and advocate for gender equality in the Greater Horn of Africa. The WCW consortium will be engaging women, women’s rights activists and women’s rights organizations (WRA/Os) in all their diversity across the GHoA to ensure that the gender equality agenda can be promoted and practiced.
Objective of the manual
This manual is developed to support the work of board members appointed to serve the Ethiopian Women Lawyers’ Association in their various capacities. In line with EWLA’s MoU Article 20 (11), it has been deemed necessary to have a detailed document to allow board members engagement with the organization for strategy development, decision and policy making and overall interaction with EWLA’s secretariat. The manual has sections that give guidance from the time a board member is elected by the General Assembly, throughout the time the board member avails himself to serve.
The Board Members Manual once endorsed could be revised on needs basis after being put to use for two consecutive years.
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Employment type: Contract
Expected Starting Date: Immediately
Type work: To Develop manual / Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association Board Members’ Manual
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Language : English and Amharic
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