USAID/Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity: The Effects of the Northern Conflict on Women and Men in the Amhara Region
This brief summarizes the findings from the Gender and Conflict Analysis conducted to understand the effects of the Tigray conflict on women and men in the Amhara Region.
The USAID/Ethiopia Resilience Learning Activity (RLA) is a five-year (2022–2027) learning project implemented by
LINC. It aims to spearhead learning and facilitate collaboration, communication, and knowledge management for USAID and more than 15 USAID activities working to increase resilience in Ethiopia. RLA conducted a Gender and Conflict Analysis from January to June 2023 (data collection occurred in March 2023), with the primary goal of documenting key gendered outcomes of the conflict for the purpose of learning and supporting adaptive management. RLA undertook the analysis to gain a deeper understanding of how differently the Tigray conflict, which began in 2020 and spilled over to neighboring regions, impacted women, men, and youth, and what coping mechanisms these groups adopted. WI-HER, LLC, in collaboration with LINC and the RLA team in Ethiopia, prepared the Gender and Conflict Analysis.