📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: OHCHR - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Switzerland
Country: Ethiopia Contract type: Pooled Funding-Basket Funds Project start: 01.11.2025 Funding amount: € 1.000.000,00 End: 31.10.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
Strengthening the rule of law, civic space, protection in conflict situations, and equality in Ethiopia through monitoring, advocacy, and technical assistance, ensuring accountability and inclusive governance.
Expected results
1. Increased capacity of transitional justice (TJ) institutions to finalize and implement rights-based accountability laws.
2. Increased capacity of victims to participate in TJ processes using survivor-centered and conflict-sensitive approaches.
3. Strengthened capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs - including women human rights defenders), the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and other stakeholders to advance human rights, promote equality, address discrimination and enable meaningful participation.
4. Strengthened state capacity to enact, amend, and implement laws and policies aligned with the right to participation.
5. Strengthened documentation of human rights violations to inform stakeholder engagement.
6. Increased functionality and use of early warning systems by CSOs and human rights defenders.
7. Increased awareness and engagement of rights-holders and the public in promoting equality and influencing anti-discrimination policies.
Target group / Beneficiaries
The primary beneficiaries of the project are victims of human rights violations and stakeholders from the legislative, executive (prosecuters, police, prison officials etc.) and judicary as well as a wide range of CSOs. An estimated 3,900 people will directly benefit from the provision of legal remedies and training, resulting in approximately 725 people benefitting directly from ADA's contribution in relation to its financial contribution to the project.
The indirect beneficiaries of the project are individuals and communities most at risk, particularly women, children, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, especially in the humanitarian context. Additionally, civil society actors and government institutions benefit in terms of their capacity totalling an estimated 16.2 million people (3 million people for ADA’s contribution respectively).
The Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights is the implementing Agency, the Ethiopia program being managed by the East Africa Regional Office in Addis Ababa. The OHCHR partners with the Ethiopian National Human Rights Institution (EHRC), as well as the Ministry of Justice, CSOs, the Ethiopian parliament, the police and the judiciary.
OHCHR operates nationwide and has field offices in 8 towns located in the high-risk regions Tigray, Amhara, Afar, Somali and Oromia as well as in Sidama (covering the Southern regions).
Activities
1. Training for investigat
