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Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia. The city is divided into 10 sub cities and 99 ‘woredas’ (‘Kebeles’). Currently, more than 4.5 million people resides and it is a big and sprawling city.  It is where the African Union and its predecessor the OAU are based. It also hosts the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and numerous other continental and international organizations. Many NGO’s have offices in Addis too. 

Forum on Sustainable Child Empowerment (FSCE) previously named as Forum on Street Children-Ethiopia has opened office and started implementation in Addis Ababa since its establishment at the end of 1989. 

Previously, FSCE had three Area Program Offices (APOs) in Addis Ababa located in Akaki Kaliti, Addis Ketema and Arada sub cities but following the organizational development (OD) study findings and recommendations in 2013 the three separate APOs where merged into one APO. The newly reorganized Addis Ababa APO has started implementation since September 01, 2014 and is one among the five APOs of FSCE striving to protect and support vulnerable children through comprehensive system approach.  Currently, the APO is working in nine sub cities and 17 woredas of Addis Ababa. The number of APO\'s staff currently stands at 46 of which 55% of them are females and 70% of them are program staff. 

In the year 2014 the APO obtained over 10.5 million birr from Save the Children International (SCI), Plan International Ethiopia (PIE), Kinder Not Hilfe (KNH), DCI-ECPAT, Ethiopaid and Every child UK and utilized successfully. 

The program is aimed at rehabilitating and reintegrating children who have been sexually abused and exploited, abandoned, victimized, and those that are at risk. In the reporting period, in all area program offices except Dessie, 409 sexually abused and exploited children were actually rehabilitated and reintegrated. During the same period, 140 children were made to attend life skills, business skills, and vocational skills training such as hairdressing, garment technology, food preparation and hotel management. These children have now become self-reliant and confident. 

In the reporting period, the Addis Ketema area program office has shown an exemplary performance in the development and use of measurements for trauma, depression and self-esteem of children in safe homes. Based on recorded information from APOs on the targets on their arrival to the centre, almost all children have low self-esteem for themselves; they are depressed and are in trauma. Currently, improvements are shown in the children’s situation; the self-esteem level is middle level; they are overcoming their trauma, and they are free from depression and addiction. Other APOs have either adopted or adapted the practice and have started to measure the self-esteem and trauma level of the targets. One such APO is Dire Dawa.

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All area program offices have diligently carried out the community capacity enhancement interventions with a profound focus on child protection because it lays the basis for the success of their overall objectives. The general public and the target communities in particular have been made aware of the protection needs of children.Various forums or strategies, such as community conversation, coffee ceremonies, workshops, discussion forums, production and dissemination of IEC materials, and different media have been utilized by the seven area program offices in collaboration with various stakeholders to raise awareness of all concerned.

In the reporting period, in all the seven area program offices, 137 community conversation groups were established and these groups held bi-weekly and monthly discussions on the twelve child protection indicators including child labor abuse, child trafficking, child migration, child sexual abuse and exploitation, disability as well as the consequences of child abuse and neglect. To mark the importance of such discussions, more than 6815 community members in the target areas participated. Moreover, more than 3169 children at schools participated in peer discussions, of which 1777 were girls, and more than 3494 community members were sensitized about child protection through workshops.The awareness raising sessions have brought better attitudinal changes on the issues of child protection indicators as well as the consequences of child abuse and neglect. The effect could better be explained in each APO: