SCS-Advancing Democracy & Accountability to Ensure Children's Rights in Ethiopia - Save the Children-Advancing Demo.&Accountability Ensure Children's Rights in ETH Save the Children-Advancing Demo.&Accountability Ensure Children's Rights in ETH The overall objective of the intervention is capitalize on the reform taking place within the government and the Human Rights Institutions of the country to mainstream child rights issues and to ensure the right of children and the most vulnerable to participation in decision-making in a meaningful way. The intervention shall make use of the encouraging CSO law that Ethiopia has passed and build CSO capacity to be the voice of the most vulnerable and serve as reporting entities along with the Human Rights institutions to hold the government accountable in child rights issues. 

The agreement partner to the Embassy is Save the Children Sweden, a well known International Non Governmental Organization, that has and still is working with Sida on various projects. The intervention is for a total of 8 000 000 SEK for a period of July 2020 up to June 2023. The overall objective of the intervention is capitalize on the reform taking place within the government and the Human Rights Institutions of the country to mainstream child rights issues and to ensure the right of children and the most vulnerable to participation in decision-making in a meaningful way. The intervention shall make use of the encouraging CSO law that Ethiopia has passed and build CSO capacity to be the voice of the most vulnerable and serve as reporting entities along with the Human Rights institutions to hold the government accountable in child rights issues. 

The agreement partner to the Embassy is Save the Children Sweden, a well known International Non Governmental Organization, that has and still is working with Sida on various projects. The intervention is for a total of 8 000 000 SEK for a period of July 2020 up to June 2023. Save the Children believes that with this project, it will advance a democratic development and accountability towards child rights and in the long term bring tentative changes for children in Ethiopia. Therefore, this intervention plans to enhance CSOs, child-led groups and human rights institutions to demand the rights of children; contribute towards a more open space for negotiation between child rights actors and government and expansion of democratic participation among citizens, especially of marginalized groups of children; and finally developing the capacity and accountability of relevant government agencies to respond to children's rights. 
There are four clear objectives that is wished to be attained through this intervention:
1. Enhanced engagement of the national Human Rights Institutions, CSOs and child-led structures in regular monitoring of child rights focusing on the most marginalized using a strong child rights monitoring mechanism
2. Access to inclusive and quality justice improved to the most deprived groups of children, including those marginalized by gender discrimination, forceful displacement, refugees, street children and children in conflict with the law.
3. Child rights are mainstreamed and resourced in selected key public sector ministries and agencies, with increased coordination of implementations, follow up, reporting and promoting children's active civic engagement.
4. Improved the rights of girls and boys affected by the confict and crisis in Tigray Region by stregnthening the formal and informal child rights and protection system.