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Addis Hiwot Rehabilitation and Reintegration Association (AHRRA) was established in April 2005 in Dessie town (South Wello zone, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia) by a group of five people living with HIV (three men and two women) who used to provide home based care services for bedridden AIDS patients as community volunteers. The Association was registered for the first time on April 16, 2005 by Amhara National Regional State, Justice Bureau to implement community based interventions (such as home based care, psychosocial support and IGAs) in a formal way. In 2010, the Association assessed its internal capacity and decided to be more inclusive and started supporting other destitute and hard to reach community members in addition to PLHIV and OVC. Following this decision, AHRRA developed its first comprehensive five-year strategic plan (2011-2015) involving internal and external stakeholders. In March 2011, AHRRA was reregistered as an Ethiopian Residents Charity (registration No. 2224) in accordance with Charities and Societies Regulation (621/2009) by the FDRE, Charities and Societies Agency (ChSA). Currently, AHRRA is re- registered as an Ethiopian/ Local Organization as per the new FDRE Civil Society Organisation Proclamation No. 1113/2019 with registration No. 2224 and has signed operational agreement with concerned local government actors. The organization has well established organizational structure (general assembly, board and secretariat which is led by an executive director), good internal management system and organizational culture (written policies and procedures) and 212 fulltime staff (145 females and 66 male) and 77 (57 female and 20 male) community volunteers based in Dessie and Bahir Dar main offices as wel as other liaison offices in the region. Since its establishment, AHRRA has successfully implemented two strategic plans; Strategic Plan I (2011-2015) and Strategic Plan II (2016-2018). Currently, AHRRA has been implementing its third strategic plan/SP (2019 to 2023) based on the lessons learnt from the development and implementation of the previous strategic plans and the outcomes of the internal and external context/situation analysis. AHRRA’s current programmatic areas include the following five pillars that aim to contribute to the national efforts of reducing causes of poverty, inequality & morbidity: health and nutrition, livelihood development, rehabilitation and reintegration of hard-to-reach community groups, emergency, disaster risk reduction and environmental protection; and human right and peace building. The strategic plan also articulates gender equality and safeguarding/child protection as cross cutting issues, and emphasizes organizational capacity development of AHRRA. In terms of program management, over the years, AHRRA has developed good reputation and experience in designing and effectively managing different development programs including HIV/AIDS prevention, Care and psychosocial support for PLHIV and OVC, ART Adherence Case Management, Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT), reproductive health, child and youth development, livelihood (women economic empowerment/IGA), natural resources management/environmental protection, nutrition, prisoners rehabilitation program and reintegration, prisoners’ rights and psychosocial support, prevention of gender based violence, emergency humanitarian assistance (IDPs in Dessie and COVID 19 prevention and responses) and other related interventions. Currently, AHRRA is implementing various projects of different scope in eleven zones of Amhara Regional State (namely North Shewa, Oromiya, South Wollo, North Wollo, Wag Himra, North Gonder, South Gonder, Bahir Dar, West Gojam and South Gojam), in Afar with the Brtish Council/CSSP 2 funded project and in Addis Ababa and Oromia with the joint Prisoners’ Rights project.
Vision: AHRRA envision all people’s, being healthy and leading quality of life.
Mission: Promote health and ensure with reducing of poverty for poor, underserved or overlooked people in order to achieve an equal, wellbeing and just society through strong participation of the local community.
Overall Objective/Goal: AHRRA exists to contribute to the national efforts of reducing causes of poverty, inequality & morbidity through to improve health, livelihood and well-being of the society
General Objective: To contribute to the school’s efforts to improve the quality of education by alleviating the psychological and material problems caused by the war at Tita Elementary School.
Specific Objective 1 ፡ to provide the main library reference books, computers, printers and office supplies that the school lacked due to the war
Specific Objective 2 ፡ to equip the schools through Student seats, teacher’s lookers, blackboards and other key resources destroyed by the war.
Specific Objective 3 ፡ to solve some of the psychological problems caused by the war to students and teachers.
Specific Objective 4 ፡ ፡ to strengthen the school’s parent-teacher partnership and consequently to ensure the sustainable support by them
Addis Hiwot Rehabilitation and Reintegration Association (AHRRA) will directly implement the project at grass root levels. AHRRA’s head office is the apex of the intended project structure. It has also a role to regularly overlook the implementation progress and facilitate the support of concerned government offices, partners and stakeholders at town level and responsible to communicate with the donor organization. AHRRA will assign a specific staff to a particular project to effectively manage the project implementation. Moreover, AHRRA key staffs like project officers and Monitoring and Evaluation Officer will be assigned at Head office level for the overall implementation, coordination, and follow up and reporting of the project activities. AHRRA Executive Director, Program Managers and Admin& Finance Heads will exert significant part of their time to assist and coordinate overall project implementation, coordination and monitoring and follow up of the project (Kick-off meeting, interim report and high level trainings and meeting on an annual level). In addition, AHRRA will strength Parent Teacher Association (PTA) to give their full support for the successful implementation of the project
AHRRA is convinced that monitoring, evaluation and learning is an indispensable instrument to measure achievements, results and share key lessons of the project. Monitoring will be an integral part of the implementation of the project & will be carried out at different levels. In doing this, the monitoring system of AHRRA will be adapted project indicators, formats and checklists. Data will be collected through paper-based tools. Quarter review meetings with parent teacher association (PTA) will be conducted; observation and discussions with the target community groups will be conducted on a regular basis. Furthermore, joint supportive supervisors will be conducted with government officials. In the monitoring and supervision process, AHRRA will employ different monitoring tools such as regular report formats, group discussions, interviews and learning reviews. The results of monitoring and supportive supervision will be properly documented, disseminated and used to track progress and make decisions to redesign implementation approaches.
This project was developed by the school community in active consultation and discussion with Parent Teacher Coalition and stakeholders and consequently they have identified major problems. In addition, during the implementation of the project, in accordance with the plan, all stakeholders will be involved. Therefore, the project involves the participation of all stakeholders from the preparation to the implementation