The Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) has been supporting the Gender Forum since 2000. The forum has the objective of promoting gender dialogue in Ethiopia, raise the awareness of the public and increase the visibility of the gender experts by providing them with a platform on a regular basis for experience sharing. Previously, the Gender Forum used to be organised by PANOS, with the support of HBF. Now that HBF has reopened its office in 2006, it has started to directly organize it. The recent emphasis during the Forums has been to inform and stimulate a dialogue on policy and decision making regarding gender equity and equality; and this focus serves as a basis for the publication of the “Reflections”.

On our website, we publish the results of the forum as pdf-files:

• Forum issue 2008
• Forum issue 2007