WHAT IS HBF?

November 23, 2012

Between 2006 and 2012 the Heinrich Böll Foundation (HBF) was represented in Addis Ababa. The country office supported networking among civil society organisations in Ethiopia in the areas of environmental policy and promotion of women. New media and the arts were used to complement traditional activities in public education such as radio programmes, printed publications and conferences. The Addis 2050 project which was sponsored by HBF and the Green Forum Ethiopia, can be seen in line of those activities. At the end of 2012, the Heinrich Böll Foundation decided to stop their activities in Ethiopia due to severe restrictions by new laws and regulations on the work of non-governmental organisations.