This strategic objective aims at policy engagement and advocacy, law enforcement, social and behavioral change communication in areas that address the patriarchal and systemic gaps in gender equality, and aid services and devices for persons with disability. Women, Children and PWDs have also the right to express their views on all matters that affect them and they should, whenever possible, have an opportunity to be involved in advocating for their own rights;

This objective focuses on the economic empowerment of vulnerable groups of the society-mainly women and people with disability and linking survivors with economic and other social supports. Training and supervising survivors to link people in a safe manner to relevant services and community supports is also important. Besides, rights-based approach recognizes that right-holders have rights and that those with an obligation to fulfil those rights (duty-bearers) must both be capacitated and applied then without exception.

All individuals have access to quality and relevant learning environments. Equity remains a concern, particularly for girls and students with special needs. Many children with special needs are not fully integrated in the system. This objective underlines the importance of increasing the provision of inclusive education in mainstream schools, including in the one-year school readiness program, accelerated learning program (7-14 years old), and delivered in primary school compounds (O-Class). Moreover, this results area focuses on promoting equitable access to safe and protective learning opportunities of child education with the aim to:  improve gender equality in pre-primary /early primary education; and ensure inclusive education in pre-primary/primary schools children (Out-of-school children, IDP, children with disabilities, street children, orphan, separated children and HIV victims, aged 6-18 years).

This results area focuses on the quality of child education, aiming to improve student learning outcomes in early grade literacy and numeracy skills and life skills children and adolescents, aged 6-12 years through strengthening education system and improving quality learning environment in schools by increasing the participation of education personnel and communities to enhance efficiency, quality and effectiveness in CE delivery. As a result, teachers and other education personnel receive periodic, relevant and structured training according to needs and circumstances. To put in a nutshell, it will improve access to quality pre-primary and primary education in order to make sure that all children and youth acquire the competencies, skills and values that enable them to use their full potential.

The primary goal of child protection case management is to promote the well-being of child clients (and their families) by reducing protection risks and ensuring children have access to prevention and response services including formal services (e.g. case management) that are linked with the child protection system. It addresses an individual child’s (and their family’s) needs in an appropriate, systematic and timely manner, through direct support and/or referrals, and in accordance with a project or program’s objectives. Besides, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) is a term used to describe a wide range of actions that address social, psychological and psychiatric problems that are either pre-existing or emergency induced. Psychosocial interventions include incorporation of psychological first aid into a standard package of post-rape care offered by a first point of contact and linking survivors with economic and other social supports. Training and supervising care coordinators to link people in a safe manner to relevant services and community supports is important. Links to available social services, general health services and mental health services care must be facilitated. As the situation stabilizes, activities can be strengthened and expanded by training and supervising non-specialized health workers -including primary health care staff, to provide support for mental and substance use problems.

AWCCO will try to reduce the effects of severe acute malnutrition (SAM); through the implementation of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) intervention, mobile health and nutrition program (MHNT) by integrating activities in to the existing health care system and community structure, and promote an integrated nutritionally valid health services packages for community with particular focus to most vulnerable groups. Besides, an understanding of the context of the emergency nutrition situation is necessary to develop an appropriate response.  So, analysis of data on the affected population and area will be made using increases the understanding of the extent and possible causes of malnutrition, promote food and nutrition security interventions with purpose of protective (recovery from shocks), preventative (building resilience to cope with shocks), promoted (enhance capabilities for poverty escape) and transformative (address inequalities and inclusions), and key decision on household resource allocation, attitudes to health and malnutrition and health seeking behavior.

Finally, our organization could give a focus on continuous capacity buildings of health care providers special emphasis given to basic, hands on skill, gap filling training of frontline skilled birth attendants and nutrition supervisors on integrated CMAM and IYCF-E programs and further capacity building will be given for women and adolescent girls to improve their life skill, livelihoods, awareness on nutrition and other related services.

To improve the quality of MCH services AWCCO will realize safe child birth, capacity building of Healthcare Providers (Basic emergency obstetrics care, family planning services, PMTCT, Basic ART, IMNCI, RMNCAYH, Quality improvement, IPPS, post abortion care  etc…), Community mobilization on MCH related  and Support services, Support basic health care materials and equipment’s and essential to drugs to health care institutions/facilities and Enhance community awareness on HIV/AIDS, PMTCT, diseases prevention and other pandemics to early mitigate, prevent and respond to social and economic impacts of existing and evolving pandemics.

Furthermore, AWCCO will realize to strengthen the MNCH (maternal, neonatal and child health) services through introducing quality improvement initiatives at MCH services; introduce M-health applications in the existing health system, Supporting health facilities to provide integrated MNCH and nutrition services through outreach activities (ANC, PNC, newborn care, IYCF, counseling, growth monitoring, micronutrient distribution and deworming tablets, management of childhood illness etc.); Improve referral linkages of MCH services in to the existing health system  Etc…

Finally, efforts must be made to improve the quality of care through institutionalize clinical catchment-based mentorship/coaching system to increase providers’ level of adherence to good practices and standards (CRC protocols and guidelines), Strengthen skills acquisition and skills retention of MCH providers, Improve documentation and record keeping and more attention and thoughtful strategies are also required to minimize providers’ (maternity) work-related burnout.

Currently in Tigrai, majority of water points are not functional, Low stock of water treatment chemical, hygiene supplies. There is no safe drinking water. Women’s specific hygiene needs are not being consistently met due to insufficient NFI sanitary products in maternal health clinics and schools. The lack of access to clean drinking water also affects basic services in places such as schools and learning centers. Therefore, there is high need rehabilitation of adequate provision of WASH services to prevent disease outbreaks. To this end, AWCCO will work in collaboration with partners to enhance WASH with due focus to supporting displaced people (IDP) and school wash services with WASH promotion interventions and Non-food item fulfillments.

Yet the complexity, scale and diversity of the war mean that no single entity, on its own, can ensure peace; a comprehensive CSOs’ actions of peace is needed in which AWCCO is expected to play its role as agents of peace building in promoting trust and confidence. To this end, AWCCO shall focus on the displaced and traumatized children and adolescents by armed conflict, via education as it is a key factor for bringing stability and security back into their lives. This objective will also underlines the importance of risk education on the adverse impacts of the armed conflict; explosive remnants of war contamination (ERW) continue to be a reality and major concern in numerous areas including schools. Children and adolescents are highly exposed and particularly at risk of ERW injury because of their inherent curiosity, mobility and love of play. Children caught in a blast are less likely to survive because their small bodies are more vulnerable. This strategic objective is therefore aimed at peace-building and reducing the explosive ordinance contamination risk to a level where people particularly children can live safely, thereby contributing to conducive socioeconomic environment.   

Networking and communications are the basic ingredients to blossom in mission achievement.  This particular includes ratification of MOUs on projects, fund rising activities, information-sharing on best practices with other CSOs as part of the endeavor for networking. Moreover, maintaining a modern and user-friendly communication channels and its accessibility are part of this objective. Network and partnerships are a crucial components of charitable organizations strategy in their quest for better intervention programs to their vulnerable beneficiaries. Improved Partnership endeavors strengthen the capacity for resource mobilization due to the increment of mutual trust among the partner parties.  It is presumed that partnerships improve the ability of interventions assessments, communication with beneficiaries, advocacy programs, resources and helps to gain innovative knowledge to solve societal problems. Resource mobilization as part of a partnership strategy strengthens financial muscle and improve organizational capability to maximize resources.  Accordingly, international institutions, INGOs and private funds can be utilized only when an objectivize partnership and resource mobilize strategy is in place.

In today environment, organization is required diversify their resource and source of the resource to grow and sustained. Thus, to realize the vision and   accomplish the mission of the organization, diversify and optimize resource is putted as one strategic objective. To achieve this objective it required diversify the resource there are two approaches. 1) The organization will work on acquiring resource from external. 2) And internally develop own resource. The external source of resource are donations from individuals, corporations, governments and other organizations through  creating fundraising events,  grants hunting and competition. Furthermore, the organization will internally develop own resource through Social entrepreneurship activities (cooperative farming, education, model hospital or health center or clinic, animal Farming, micro lending venture). The Profits from the Social entrepreneurship will be used for financially self-sustainable and improving the economic status of the beneficiaries, employees and for running the other charitable activities of the organization.

Yet mobilizing capability configurations is insufficient to create value for customers. The capability configurations must then be implemented in appropriate ways to create value. Doing so requires the capability configurations to be coordinated and deployed. The intent of coordinating is to integrate mobilized capabilities in an effective yet efficient manner so as to create capability configurations. It is the first step in implementing a leveraging strategy. Possessing knowledge about the value of individual capabilities, as well as using effective communication networks to diffuse that knowledge, facilitates efforts to integrate capabilities into comprehensive sets of value-creating organizational skills. The deployment process enhances the maintainability of a competitive advantage only when rivals are unable to acquire the idiosyncratic skills necessary to deploy their capabilities in a way that creates superior value for customers.

Being center for quality in employees is main critical resource for success or to realize the vision and   accomplishes the mission of the organization. Thus, our organization will work in blending the goals of individual employees with the goals of the organization. The organization’s goals and needs should be linked with the individual career needs of its employees in a way that improves the effectiveness of workers and their satisfaction as well as achieving the organization’s strategic objectives. Providing special training for women employees, accepting women as valued members of the organization, providing mentors for them, and accommodating families are to be effective ways to facilitate women’s career development In addition, Promote from within is one of priority areas. All associates will give the opportunity to advance as far as their abilities will carry them. Besides, Special attention will be given to the recruitment and career development of disabled people.

AWCCO understands the importance of the matter, and is serious to prepare itself not only the current, but also for the future trends to get the level of sustainable success.  To do so, the organization will work hard to change the current organization setup to next level or to be foundation. The reason for changes is internal pressures for change (internal need to transform to next level) as well as social expectations.  The change will required an intentional effort made by organization leadership to take the organization towards betterment. As leadership has a central role in evolution and cultivating an organization, the process of organizational change demands a very effective and highly competent leadership that is well capable to perceive the most desirable shape of an organization and address the issue of organizational change in most appropriate way.