 Plan first started working in Ethiopia in 1974, to help poor children to access their rights to health, education, protection and participation.
We promote child rights and work to ensure that children, families and communities are active participants in their own development – from identifying problems to implementing solutions.
One example is the Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) approach, which Plan Ethiopia has promoted since February 2007. CLTS inspires whole communities to stop defecating out in the open, contaminating food and water supplies. So far Fura and Sedeka kebeles in Shebedino, and Busa and Merewa kebeles in Jimma have achieved and celebrated open defecation-free environments.
Plan Ethiopia’s work to break the cycle of poverty covers the following areas:
* child survival and development
* quality education
* food security and nutrition
* child participation and protection
* HIV and AIDS.
Child survival and development
 We work to improve the health of communities by implementing programmes to tackle childhood illnesses and improve safe motherhood services.
Water, sanitation and hygiene is another core part of our work - more than 250,000 children die every year in Ethiopia due to unsafe water. We implement projects to construct water supply schemes, train communities in sanitation and hygiene education, as well as support the construction of latrines. Read more about our water and sanitation work.
We also work to strengthen community based organisations, government and local non-government organisations to help them participate effectively in health development issues.
Quality education
 This programme aims to ensure that all children access and receive quality education so that they can realise their full potential.
Our work ranges from supporting early childhood care and development to teacher training and adult literacy initiatives.
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