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The overall goal of ESD is to contribute to the national endeavor of empowering the youth, children, and women to be self-reliant. To meet this goal, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been implementing 6 programs: Early Childhood Development (ECD), Education, Girls and Women Empowerment, Youth Skills Development and Job Creation, Environment Protection and Renewable Energy (EPRE), and Emergency Response and Resilience (ERR). ESD’s theory of change indicates its development trajectory that aims at empowering the youth, children, and women to be self-reliant and thereby envisioning to see Ethiopia with an empowered community by improving child-wellbeing, increasing women & girls’ opportunities for a better life, improving quality education to have competent generation, enhancing livelihood capacity of the youth and make it to be self-reliant, improving utilization of renewable energy and agricultural practices and through ensuring humanitarian support.

Vision: ESD aspires to see Ethiopia with empowered communities. Mission: ESD strives to create a bright future for children, youth, and women through holistic and inclusive approaches. Early Childhood Care and Education • Child rights and protection • WASH facility development • Pedagogical center development • Livelihood initiatives • Youth sexual and reproductive health • Leadership development • Primary education focusing on quality improvement • Intercultural education • ICT for education • Entrepreneurship development • Technical and Vocational Education and Training • Leadership development • Green livelihood • Solar and biogas development • Climate change resilience • Humanitarian service • Rehabilitation/social service • Peace and stability development