Hope for Justice’s Project Tesfa uses a whole-of-community approach to reduce the prevalence of modern slavery across ten districts in the Wolaita and Hadiya zones of southern and central Ethiopia. Implemented over three phases since 2017, the project has sought to raise awareness of modern slavery in schools and communities, combat harmful social norms, improve financial resilience of vulnerable households and work with government and community leadership to build sustainability.
This briefing document summarises the project’s main learnings since inception, organised by the following themes:
- Awareness-raising
- Social norms
- Women’s empowerment
- School engagement
- Youth engagement
These learnings have been developed using qualitative and quantitative data gathered from a variety of Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E methods, including focus group discussions with programme participants and stakeholders from government and the wider community, external evaluations of each programme phase and regular data collection. A first draft of this document was also shared with stakeholder focus groups during two day-long validation workshops in Wolaita and Hadiya. Their feedback has been integrated into the final version of this briefing.
