Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the
Ethiopian Women’s Leadership Program (EWLP) creates champions of women’s health, education and economic empowerment through leadership development. The program supports female university students from four of the major Ethiopian universities. Through a nine-month program that includes a service-learning component, young women are able to strengthen their educational outcomes and emerge as the next generation of women leaders. Through this program, IIE Addis Ababa also works with university administrators, gender officers and academic staff to support their professional development and assist them in strengthening the systems which support women students.
Implemented in collaboration with IIE West Coast, the
Leadership Development for Mobilizing Reproductive Health Program (LDM), sponsored by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, has supported more than 1,200 emerging and established leaders who have the vision and commitment to improve family planning and reproductive health (RH) services in Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, and the Philippines. LDM fellows are public health professionals, journalists, Islamic scholars, academics, lawyers, community health workers, doctors, nurses and government employees and they lead nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and public sector departments as advocates for strong, protective RH policies. Among issues of interest are community level family planning services, HIV/AIDS prevention, and youth empowerment. The LDM program believes that collective leadership can be a powerful agent for making lasting, systemic change.
The
Maternal Health Young Champions Fellowship offers a unique fellowship to 10 young people who are passionate about improving maternal health in their home country. Selected Young Champions will be matched with in-country mentors and organizations for a nine-month research or field project internship focusing on a particular area of maternal health.
In partnership with New York University (NYU), IIE provides unique, strategic global outreach and screening services to identify candidates for the first cohort of
NYU-Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) students. IIE-Ethiopia recruits outstanding individuals from across the African continent to join the highly talented cohort of global scholars that attend NYU’s new campus in the United Arab Emirates.