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Ethiopia Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey, 2024: Data-to-Action workshop report
Yadeta Dessie, Dagim Fisseha Habteyesus, Yohannes Dibaba Wado, Peter Kisaakye, Stella Kagwiria Muthuri et al. ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This report describes a Data-to-Action workshop held in Ethiopia in November 2024, where government officials, NGOs, and UN bodies came together to translate findings from a Humanitarian Violence Against Children and Youth Survey into actionable recommendations. Using the INSPIRE framework and Child Protection Minimal Standards, participants developed evidence-based priorities for preventing and responding to violence against children in humanitarian settings, particularly among refugee populations. The workshop outcome was a set of contextualized, data-driven recommendations to guide violence prevention activities in Ethiopia.
Key points
- The workshop brought together government, international and national NGOs, UN bodies, and delivery partners to focus on violence prevention and response
- Ethiopia HVACS findings were translated into key indicators and mapped to actionable steps
- The INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children technical package was used to frame recommendations
- Child Protection Minimal Standards were applied to contextualize activities
- Recommendations drew on robust evidence specifically from refugee populations
Limitations
This report describes a workshop process and outcomes rather than research findings or intervention evaluation. It does not provide data on the prevalence of violence, detailed survey results, or evidence of the effectiveness of the resulting recommendations.
Abstract
The Government of Ethiopia’s Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS) officials, various government ministry delegates, representatives from International and national Non-Governmental Organisations, UN bodies, and various delivery partners, came together for a Data to Action workshop in Addis Ababa from November 19th to 21st, 2024. During this workshop, participants prioritized violence prevention and response activities, directly informed by the HVACS data. This was achieved by translating the Ethiopia HVACS findings into key indicators that were then mapped into actionable next steps by linking this data to the INSPIRE: Seven Strategies for Ending Violence Against Children technical package and the Child Protection Minimal Standards (CPMS). The outcome of this D2A workshop, contextualized to activities conducted in the country, was data-driven, evidence-based recommendations for Ethiopia, with the aim of preventing and responding to violence against children in humanitarian settings. These priorities complemented existing implementation plans, drawing on recent and robust evidence specifically from refugee populations.