WHO Ethiopia and Plan International Ethiopia champion girls’ leadership through Girls Takeover 2026 campaign

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20 October 2026– The World Health Organization (WHO) Ethiopia Country Office, in collaboration with Plan International Ethiopia, hosted Ms. Timrhabiruk Mulugeta as the symbolic WHO Representative for a Day as part of the international Girls Takeover 2026 (#ChangeHerForecast) project. The effort marked the International Day of the Girl and supported this year’s style, “End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls’ Rights.”

The Girls Takeover effort empowers teen women and girls by offering chances to presume management functions, enhance their voices, obstacle gender stereotypes, and take part in decision-making procedures. This year’s worldwide project, #ChangeHerForecast, highlights the out of proportion effect of environment modification and humanitarian crises on ladies, especially in relation to their health, education, security, and future chances.

Throughout her symbolic management function, Ms. Timrhabiruk took part in top-level conferences and engagements, getting direct insight into WHO’s operate in Ethiopia. She accompanied the WHO Representative on a check out to the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute and added to conversations on development, health, youth management, and advancement. She likewise took part in a coordination conference to get ready for the 7th Emergency Medical Teams Global Meeting.

Throughout the day, Ms. Timrhabiruk promoted for women’ rights, gender equality, youth involvement, and more powerful action to attend to the obstacles that environment modification and humanitarian crises posture to ladies and girls. Her involvement highlighted the value of producing significant chances for girls to engage straight with leaders and add to forming policies that impact their neighborhoods.

A 2026 graduate of the School of Social Work at Addis Ababa University, Ms. Timrhabiruk has actually been actively taken part in neighborhood assistance, youth involvement, and social justice advocacy. Through her deal with the Ethiopia ACT Project, she has actually supported susceptible people and households through psychosocial services, counselling, income help, and dispute resolution efforts.

Speaking at the conclusion of the occasion, Professor Francis Chisaka Kasolo, WHO Representative to Ethiopia, the African Union, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), applauded Ms. Timrhabiruk’s management and engagement.

“We applaud her dedication and interest and extend our finest long for her ongoing success as a future leader and supporter for favorable modification,” Professor Kasolo stated.

The occasion declared the shared dedication of WHO Ethiopia and Plan International Ethiopia to promoting women’ management, empowerment, and significant involvement in decision-making. By purchasing women and developing chances for them to lead, the Girls Takeover effort adds to constructing a more fair and inclusive future.