Our work in Ethiopia
Save the Children faciliated the establishment of a pilot Children's Parliament, Ethiopia.
Children's Parliament - The UNCRC Article 15 states that children have the right to create and join associations and to assemble peacefully. This right to association is one of the means that paves a way for the realization of children's right to participation.
Being cognizant of its importance to ensure the respect of children's right to participation, Save the Children joined forces with the Ethiopian Ombudsman Office to establish a pilot Children's Parliament.
In this endeavor, the Regional Council of SNNPRS and in particular the woreda administration has played a major role for the direct implementation. The parliament has been inaugurated and became operational since September 2006.
Currently, the parliament is composed of forty eight girls and forty eight boys, a total of ninety-six children including representatives of out of school children who were drawn from fifteen Kebeles of the woreda.
The Children's Parliament has already held its first regular meeting and endorsed a resolution requiring the Woreda Administration to put in place recreational facilities for children, among others.