| Eritrea |  |
National Confederation of Eritrean Workers
| Address: | P.O. Box 1188, Asmara, Eritrea |
| Phone: | 291 1 11 61 87 |
| Fax: | 291 1 12 66 06 |
| Email: | |
| Internet: | |
| Contact: | Tekeste Baire |
| Type of Organization: | National / Local |
| Members: | Men / Women |
| Year Founded: | 1952 |
| International Working Language: | English |
| Local Working Language: | Tigrigna / Arabic |
| Source of Annual Budget: | Membership fees |
| Affiliations: | International Federation of Free Trade Union |
Action Areas:
- Administration
- Adult Education
- Agriculture
- Capacity Building
- Child Care
- Cooperatives
- Democracy
- Education
- Employment Creation
- Environment
- Finance
- Food and Nutrition
- Gender Analysis
- Health
- Human Rights
- Institution Building
- Legal Issues
- Management
- Mental Health
- National Policy
- Physical Health
- Research
- Structural Adjustment
- Trade Unions
- Training
- Vocational Skills
- Voter Education
Purpose:
A trade union organization to protect the rights of workers and the organization.
Illustrative Project:
Restructured the organization, introducing democratic processes through trade union education that also incorporated a platform of industrial relations for collective agreements.
National Union of Eritrean Women
| Address: | Roosevelt Street, No. 12, P.O. Box 239, Asmara, Eritrea |
| Phone: | 291 1 11 57 02 |
| Fax: | 291 1 12 06 28 |
| Email: | |
| Internet: | |
| Contact: | Almaz Lijam |
| Type of Organization: | National / Local / Community |
| Members: | Women |
| Year Founded: | 1979 |
| International Working Language: | English |
| Local Working Language: | Tigrigna / Arabic |
| Source of Annual Budget: | Membership fees / Local donors / Foreign donors |
| Affiliations: | UNDP |
Action Areas:
- Administration
- Adult Education
- Capacity Building
- Child Care
- Communication
- Community Sustainable Development
- Computer Literacy
- Cooperatives
- Credit
- Democracy
- Education
- Environment
- Finance
- Gender Analysis
- Health
- Human Rights
- Information
- Institution Building
- Legal Issues
- Literacy
- Management
- National Policy
- Peace and Security
- Physical Health
- Poverty Eradication
- Pre-School Education
- Research
- Savings
- Training
- Voter Education
Purpose:
Organize women and raise their level of social and civic consciousness; eradicate illiteracy, provide skills training; expand credit schemes and saving programmes; improve women's health, introduce day care centers; enhance women's participation in decision-making and political leadership.
Illustrative Project:
Credit and savings: So far introduced in 45 villages where 1,456 women have received credit. Beneficiaries are mostly displaced women, refugees, returnees, and demobilized women fighters (most of whom are marginalized female heads of households). Our adult literacy programmes have so far educated 26,337 women since 1992.
National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students
| Address: | P.O. Box 1042, Asmara, Eritrea |
| Phone: | 291 1 12 34 19 / 12 04 88 / 11 42 02 |
| Fax: | 291 1 12 59 81 |
| Email: | shengeb@aol.com.er / ali@aol.com.er |
| Internet: | |
| Contact: | Mohiadin A. Shengeb |
| Type of Organization: | Provincial / Local / Community |
| Members: | Youth |
| Year Founded: | 1950 |
| International Working Language: | English |
| Local Working Language: | Tigrinya / Arabic |
| Source of Annual Budget: | Membership fees / Local donors / Earned income |
| Affiliations: | WFDY / IUSY |
Action Areas:
- Adult Education
- Art and Culture
- Capacity Building
- Child Care
- Communication
- Community Sustainable Development
- Computer Literacy
- Cooperatives
- Employment Creation
- Entrepreneurship
- Environment
- Family Planning
- HIV/AIDS
- Health
- Human Rights
- Information
- Institution Building
- Legal Issues
- National Policy
- Research
- Small Business Development
- Training
- Vocational Skills
Purpose:
To contribute to the well-balanced development of Eritrea's youth through the provision of information, education and services to address all issues affecting youth.
Illustrative Project:
Capacity building/training (held twice a year): In 1996 18-day training workshops for a total of 160 staff and volunteers was carried out. The training covered human resources management, budgeting and financial management, and advocacy. In 1997 the workshop covered communications and networking, report writing, record keeping, advocacy training and interviewing.
Planned Parenthood Association of Eritrea
| Address: | P.O. Box 226, Asmara, Eritrea |
| Phone: | 291 1 12 73 33 |
| Fax: | 291 1 12 01 94 |
| Email: | |
| Internet: | |
| Contact: | Kidisty Habte |
| Type of Organization: | National / Rural / Urban |
| Members: | Men / Women / Youth / Elderly |
| Year Founded: | 1972 |
| International Working Language: | English |
| Local Working Language: | Tigrigna / Arabic |
| Source of Annual Budget: | Membership fees / Foreign donors |
| Affiliations: | International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) |
Action Areas:
- Capacity Building
- Communication
- Family Planning
- HIV/AIDS
- Health
- Information
- Training
Purpose:
PPAE plays a leading role in the demonstration and provision of quality family planning, reproductive health (FP/RH) information, education and services.
Illustrative Project:
After the re-establishment of the Association as a national NGO in 1992, it has trained over 100 service providers and educated over 20,000 people on the concepts of FP/RH.
World University Service - Eritrea
| Address: | Roosevelt Ave. 14, Asmara, Eritrea |
| Phone: | 291 1 12 224 |
| Fax: | 291 1 12 225 |
| Email: | |
| Internet: | |
| Contact: | Semainseh Ghebrai |
| Type of Organization: | National / Local / Community / Rural / Urban |
| Members: | Men / Women / Youth |
| Year Founded: | 1990 |
| International Working Language: | English |
| Local Working Language: | Tigrinya / Arabic |
| Source of Annual Budget: | Local donors / Foreign donors |
| Affiliations: | World University Service (WUS) / GTZ |
Action Areas:
- Community Sustainable Development
- Health
- Micro-Finance
- Small Business Development
Purpose:
Incentives given to trained and experienced professionals to set up their own business back in their country thereby providing self-employment and employment for their fellow country people. The professional experience gained during their sojourn in industrialized countries thus becomes a means of technology transfer.
Illustrative Project:
Since 1991, 600 former refugees and their families were supported to establish themselves in Eritrea; 430 young entrepreneurs setting up new business which provide employment for 1665 people.