APAP did an evaluation of its overall performance of the year 2007 at a one-and-a-half-day meeting held at Adama (Nazareth), at the Rift Valley Hotel, on January 18-19, 2008. Present on the occasion were three members of APAP’s Board of Directors and staffs. The meeting was officially opened by Woiz. Kidist Alemu, APAP’s Executive Director.More...

Subsequent to the performance evaluation done at Adama (Nazareth), the participants also held a half-day meeting on the next day to draw up APAP’s Activity Plan for the year 2008, based on the organization’s Operational Plan for the period 2008-2010.More...

During the first week of February 2008, APAP organized its professionals into four groupings and dispatched them to four of its target areas—Bahir Dar, Awassa, Dire Dawa and Harar, and Adama (Nazareth)—to hold consultations with the pertinent government officials and the representatives of the targeted community groups with whom it will be working closely in these areas and of the concerned CSOs and NGOs.More...

In a bid to assess the needs of the prospective beneficiaries of the two projects that APAP launched last December, with financial support from the Embassy of France in Addis Ababa, a baseline survey was conducted at Hossana, Mizan Teferi and Arba Minch—all of which are located in the southern part of the country. The towns were selected by the Southern Region’s Supreme Court, in consultation with the Embassy.More...

As per the dictates of its bylaws, APAP holds a General Assembly meeting every year. This year’s General Assembly meeting was held at the Hotel De Leopol, here in Addis Ababa, on Feb 05, 2008 for three hours in a stretch.More...

On February 07, 2008, APAP’s Management held a half-day consultative meeting with the representatives of its partner organizations at its main office. The members of APAP’s partners’ consortium are, of course, SIDA, the Australian Development Agency, the Norwegian Church Aid, Oxfam Novib, and the Embassy of Finland in Addis Ababa.More...

As disclosed in the previous issue of this newsletter, APAP provides a total of four legal-aid-providing centers with the technical support they need so that they will be able to render legal aid to the target groups in their respective areas free of charge.More...

As part of its effort to raise public awareness about citizens’ human rights, APAP has been airing 30-to-40-second messages about four times a week—in collaboration with the Ethiopian Television and Radio Agency. More...