Member Associations

Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa, and the tenth most populous in the world, has enormous sexual and reproductive health (SRH) challenges as the statistics demonstrate.  The Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia (FGAE) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2015. It has a broad reach which focuses on providing poor and marginalized populations with family planning, safe abortion care, maternal and child health care, prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) including HIV and AIDS and associated opportunistic infections.  In the shape of permanent clinics, mobile facilities and community-based services (CBSs), FGAE has numerous service points. Staff, backed by over thousands of volunteers, hundreds of peer educators and demand creators.   There’s no disguising the fact that achieving proper SRH amongst the Ethiopian people is an exhausting uphill struggle. FGAE has the will, the determination and the backing to fight for people’s rights and welfare.  Access is key to the Member Association’s activity, and it works extensively with young people to inform, educate and provide essential SRH services. FGAE also runs special projects targeted at particularly vulnerable individuals and groups: street children, people living with HIV and AIDS, sex workers, and young migrants in 8 of the 11 principal Regions in Ethiopia.  FGAE partners with government, with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the  Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Women, Children and Youth, UNFPA-Ethiopia, CARE-Ethiopia, DKT-Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Women’s Lawyer Association, and a broad spectrum of HIV and AIDS-related operations.  Private sector partners include networks of 420 private health facilities and donors to the Member Association’s work include the Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Packard Foundation, IPPF’s Japan Trust Fund, USAID/CDC and DFID.   

Community Healthcare Initiative (CHI) is a local non-governmental organization that has been providing healthcare and social services to women and children in underserved and hard-to-reach communities in Liberia since 2014. CHI prime mandate is to strengthen and promote healthcare and social services, women’s rights, child’s rights and peace in Liberia through awareness, service delivery, and outreach programs in hard-to-reach communities and persons living in impoverished and disadvantaged urban communities. We improve mother’s and children's health. We promote and educate on women and child rights. Our programs and services focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibilities according to their unique needs. Vision Access to Healthcare, freedom, and dignity to everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, and sex, free of violence and human rights abuses. Mission Working together for socio-economic development in communities, through strengthening their capacity and the implementation of the programs and health, protection, and humanitarian interventions with a participatory approach at all levels of society to defeat poverty and promote healthcare and social services throughout Liberia. CHI has many years of experience working with partners in Liberia on women and girls’ rights, CSOs strengthening, community development, and improving communities’ access to quality education, health & SRHR, sustainable livelihoods, and Community Resilience to conflict. CHI has an excellent experience in awareness-raising around sexual violence issues and providing psychosocial support for survivors. Currently, CHI is part of the Civil Society National Reference Group working with UNWOMEN on the Spotlight Initiative which aims at a global financing mechanism to support the implementation of SDGs mainly goals 5 and 16, and will contribute to the alignment and synergy of the United Nations Development System. Beneficiaries and target groups CHI beneficiaries and target groups include vulnerable women and girls, post-abortion care providers, Law and policymakers, young people survivors of any form of GBV including survivors of IVP (Intimate Partner Violence), survivors of harmful traditional practices, survivors who are members of marginalized groups (LGBTI+, sex workers, extremely poor, people living with disabilities,)   Network and Partnership: CHI is a part of the coalition, networks, and partnerships including the Working Group on FGM in Liberia, the County Development Coalition, Consortium of Women Rights in Liberia, the Women NGOs Secretariat, the National Civil Society Council; and the Liberian Women Humanitarian Network. Globally; the Network of Emergency Aid Responders (NEAR) and Feminist Humanitarian Network (FHN). Building on Community Healthcare Initiative services, we opened the first SRHR services clinic in Liberia in 2023. The SRHR services provided at the clinic includes family planning, comprehensive sexuality education, maternal health and safe and legal abortion services. The SRHR clinic use women-centered and right-based approaches to provide comprehensive SRHR healthcare including abortion. Additionally, CHI operates a women and children clinic since November 2021, that addresses the healthcare needs of vulnerable population in Margibi County.