Empowering Women and Youth Through Vocational Training Opportunities
In March 2025, N4ED partnered with OICE to provide free vocational training to selected beneficiaries from our microbusiness support program. This initiative aims to equip women and youth with practical, in-demand skills that can improve their employability and support their journey toward self-reliance and economic independence.
Partnership with Mogzit: Connecting Trained Mothers to Employment Opportunities
N4ED has partnered with Mogzit, an employment-matching platform specializing in connecting families with qualified nannies. Through this collaboration, mothers from our program—trained in child health and nutrition, hygiene, and life and business skills—gain access to job opportunities where their caregiving expertise is valued, while families benefit from trusted and well-prepared childcare providers.
Advancing Women-Led Microbusinesses Through Financial Technology
In a joint effort to support economic empowerment, N4ED and FINBIT launched a collaborative initiative designed to strengthen the financial and entrepreneurial capacity of mothers engaged in microbusinesses. By combining N4ED’s community-based approach with FINBIT’s data-driven financial tools, the project delivers practical solutions for business-running mothers in peri-urban areas.
Empowering Mothers Through Agri-Business Training: Poultry and Sheep Farming
Our two groups of mothers engaged in poultry and sheep farming successfully completed a three-month agri-business training program. This initiative was part of a collaborative effort with BIC Ethiopia and Reach for Change, aimed at enhancing the capacity of women entrepreneurs in agriculture.
Empowering Entrepreneurial Mothers: Training in Motivation, Business, and Microfinance
In collaboration with Tabitha Reach and Bridging Gaps, Nutrition 4 Education & Development (N4ED) organized a two-part training program for selected entrepreneurial mothers. Hosted by Tabitha Reach, this initiative combined motivational coaching and practical business skills, equipping women with the mindset and tools to succeed.
Strengthening Women’s Empowerment Through Partnership with Setaweet
N4ED is excited to expand its growing partnership with Setaweet through a new collaborative effort under their “Movement Building” project. This initiative builds on our existing referral connection through Alegnta, Setaweet’s hotline service, and now focuses on empowering one of our mothers’ groups through gender-focused community engagement and economic support.
Empower Her Addis Ababa Project
Led by N4ED and funded by Buntstifte (Crayons Ethiopia), this project empowers vulnerable women and children in Woreda 11, Yeka Sub-city, Addis Ababa. It addresses poverty, limited healthcare, and economic instability through holistic support—strengthening women’s economic independence, improving family health and nutrition, fostering children’s learning, creativity, and overall well-being, as well as preventing and protecting against violence for the entire family.
Combating Harmful Traditional Practices and Empowering Adolescent Girls in the Dire Dawa Region
Supported by UAF Africa’s IGNITE program, this project addresses gender-based violence (GBV), especially harmful traditional practices (HTPs) such as female genital mutilation and early marriage, in Dire Dawa. It focuses on improving educational access and outcomes for adolescent girls by creating safe, supportive environments in schools and communities.
Combating Gender-Based Violence in the Dire Dawa Region
A cooperation project between the sisterly cities of Dire Dawa and Villeurbanne (France), this project funded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy to Ethiopia, is a 24-month project that addresses GBV in 25 kebeles of Dire Dawa through awareness-raising, capacity building, survivor-centered GBV response, and socio-economic reintegration. Activities include school and community sessions, strengthening shelters, referral systems, and supporting survivors with business training and seed funding.
Reintegration of Homeless children and vulnerable girls to into their families and communities
Launched in June 2024, this three-year initiative supports the reintegration of homeless children and vulnerable young mothers into society/family in a sustainable manner. It promotes healing, stability, and empowerment through multi-sectoral support and collaboration with key partners.