Mission
Promote evidence-based advocacy for child rights in Ethiopia through practical coordination and public dialogue.
About ECRAN
An Ethiopian child-rights advocacy network built around evidence, coordination, and accountability.
ECRAN brings civil society actors, technical partners, and public stakeholders around a shared agenda for children's survival, development, protection, and participation.
Purpose
Connecting field realities with the advocacy decisions that shape children's lives.
Established in 2025, ECRAN strengthens visibility, communication, partnership engagement, and resource mobilization for child-rights work in Ethiopia. The network helps turn fragmented concern into coordinated, evidence-led advocacy.
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Evidence
Grounding every position in field data and documented realities.
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Coordination
Aligning CSOs, partners, and communities around a shared agenda.
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Accountability
Holding duty-bearers to national and international child-rights commitments.
Vision
A country where all children enjoy survival, development, protection, and participation rights.
Legal Status
Registered as a local organization under Civil Societies Proclamation No. 1113/2019 with ACSO registration number 7750.
How We Work
Listen to communities, document evidence, convene partners, and advocate for policy and practice changes children can feel.
Network Objectives
Ten commitments turned into four workstreams.
Each cluster organises the formal objectives into a working logic: network coordination, policy influence, capacity building, and evidence generation.
- Coordinate efforts by CSOs and Community-Based Organizations engaged in advocacy and promotion of the rights of children.
- Establish and strengthen partnerships and membership with other networks at national, regional, and international levels.
- Liaise with government departments, line ministries, and development partners on policy formulation, implementation, and monitoring of child-rights instruments.
- Contribute to CSO complementary reports on Ethiopia's commitments to UN and African child-rights mechanisms.
- Work with duty-bearers and stakeholders to monitor national, regional, and international frameworks concerning children's rights.
- Build member capacity in advocacy work, data organisation, child-rights promotion, and program development across Ethiopia.
- Organise dialogue platforms for members to deliberate on shared challenges faced by children and practical ways to address them.
- Organise training and advocacy programs for public, private, and not-for-profit leaders to become competent child-rights advocates.
- Undertake basic and action-oriented research, serve as a data clearing house, and produce physical and web-based reports for child-focused programs.
- Prepare evidence-based policy papers and briefs on children's rights for policy makers and practitioners.
Ready to advance child rights in Ethiopia?
Join the network, share evidence, or partner with ECRAN to build a stronger public mandate for every child.