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Although Ethiopia have not made a lot of progress for MDG3. They are well on their way to empowering all women and men to fight for equal rights for the genders.

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If women/ girls complete education, it is shown that they are more likely to marry later, get a job and do more than marry and have children. If people continue to stay at school, the gap will continue to close between men and women and women will earn more rights.

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Ethiopia has achieved significant progress towards meeting these targets and it is estimated that HIV/AIDS prevalence amongst the adult population has dropped to 1.5% in 2010/11 (EDHS, 2011) against the MDG target of 2.5%, indicating that the country has more than achieved this target2. Malaria control and prevention is one of the core interventions of the country’s primary health care system.

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There are three targets within MDG6. This MDG aims to combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis. Two targets on HIV/AIDS aims at halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS and to ensure universal access to treatment of HIV/AIDS for those who need treatment. The third target seeks to halt and begin to reverse the spread of malaria and tuberculosis by 2015.

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An Ethiopian girl-group create songs, cartoon tv shows and more to empower women and educate everyone about their opportunities in the world and education.

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The gender disparity (ratio of girls to boys) in primary education has improved from 0.85 in 2006/07 to 0.93 in 2011/12 and from 0.59 in 2006/07 to 0.83 in 2011/12 in secondary education. Gender disparity gets broadened as it goes to the higher education level. Gender disparities stand at 0.88 and 0.76 in secondary education first cycle (grade 9 – 10) and second cycle (grade 11 – 12), respectively in 2011/12.

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Target 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

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Target 3: PROMOTE GENDER EQUALITY AND EMPOWER WOMEN

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The majority of young girls in Ethiopia were (/are) not educated, this is because they believe(d) that women were only going to marry and have children, so there was no need for them to learn. The third MDG is trying to close the gap between boys and girls in education. And so far they have progressed quite well.

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As many people know, in many countries, especially LIDCs, women and young girls are strongly discriminated against purely because of their gender.

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Primary schools attendance in Ethiopia has risen from 30.2% in 2000/01 to 64.5% in 2010/11. The rise in attendance was higher for children from rich families at 70% compared to 52% for children from poor families.

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The Government of Ethiopia has made achieving universal primary education a central aspect of public policy and public spending on education has increased over the decades.

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Ethiopia is well on track to achieve universal primary education, given the trend from the 1990s and the recent excellent performancees. The increse in the total number of primary and secondary schools in the country are noted by both the PASDEP progress report and UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report (2009). These impressive results have been achieved` through a massive nationwide effort of providing education.

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The net enrolment in the lower primary school cycle (grade 1-4) has increased from 77.5% in 2004/05 to 92.2% in 2011/12 and the upper primary school cycle (grade 5-8) from 37.6% to 48.1% during the same period.

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Target 6: TARGET HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

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Target 6: TARGET HIV/AIDS, MALARIA AND OTHER DISEASES

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Target 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

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Target 2: ACHIEVE UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION

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Ethiopia has done quite well in terms as of meeting universal primary education targets very the last decade and on track on achieving the goal.