Central Ethiopia Regional State Women and Children Affairs Bureau 

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Background of the organization

The establishment of the sector and the services provided

The sector was previously established in the southern region for the first time following the issuance of the National Policy on Women's Affairs with Proclamation no 9/1988 in 1988 EC under the name of Women's Affairs Office. Since then, the sector has been moving through various organizational changes, and since 2002 EC, it has been organized under the name of Women and Children's Affairs Sector, including children's issues, in accordance with Decree No. 127/2002 issued by the state government to determine the powers and functions of executive bodies. In 2003 EC, It has been set up as the Women and Children Affairs Sector with Decree No 133/2003.

The women and children's affairs sector operates with the following main objectives based on the rights of women and children set by the constitution, women's affairs policy, women's development and change package, as well as social security development policy and international agreements accepted by our country, African children's charter and family law.

  • To ensure that women's human, property ownership and supervisory rights are  respected and their equality is ensured in any field of society, to create favourable conditions in which they can be equal economic, social and political participants, users and decision makers and to get legal support.

  • Facilitate the situation in which the rural woman can find and benefit from various basic social services, work-relief methods,

  • Step by step eradicating the cultural and customary discrimination based on gender that has been rooted for centuries and making women participate in decision-making from low to high governmental authority and administration.

  • To enable children to become productive and responsible citizens by ensuring that their rights are respected and their safety is ensured, and that they are protected from harmful traditional practices and backward attitudes.