Female Students

Addis Ababa University need to take the major role and responsibility to alleviate challenges affecting educational success of female students, and its intervention should have comprehensive nature focusing in eliminating barriers on academic, social, psychological and economic situation.

Purpose: The purpose of the policy is to:

·     Establish comprehensive supportive strategy for female students that would help them reach their maximum academic competence. 

·     Enhance assertive behavior and self confidence of female students so as to help them achieve their goal and reach on their right decision.

·      Establish friendly and conducive academic environment which is free from abuse, harassment, violence and to protect their legal right? 

·     Economically assist needy female students.

Guiding principles

• Provide legal protection to female students’ safe teaching learning environment through coordinated work with relevant office in the university,
• For better academic environment that would benefit female students, and canceling them on preventive measures, 
• enhance academic competence of female students by providing them additional tutorial class, 
• Assist female students to gat better service in the University, 
• Facilitate economic support to needy female students. 

Policy statements

• Organize female welcoming troupe differently from graduate students,
• Arrange dormitory and food service for female students before arrival with special attention, /after arrival, no female student shall pass a single night out of the campus/
• Special orientation and socialization programs shall be organized for female students,
• Female students shall be categorized according their needs,
• Facilities and supports are organized based on the needs of female students,

Implementation Procedures

• Admission of new female students guided by volunteer welcoming group who are selected and permitted by the Dean of Students and Students Union. 
• To facilitate identification and support, list of incoming new female students and their respective department be notified by the registrar office.  
• Realizing pervious undesirable life experience of majority of female students, training is conducted on study skill, assertiveness self-expressive skill, decision-making, and others that would support reduce challenge in during their stay in campus.
• Physical, social and sexual harassment and /or abuse on female students is considered as human right violence and accuse on responsible office of the university and legal offices.  
• Secure legal protection through coordinated work with relevant office in the university.  
• For better academic environment that would benefit female students and on preventive measures, male students would get opportunity for orientation and discussion in regard with violence against female students and its academic and legal consequences. 
• To enhance academic competence of female students, academic related training and tutorial program will be conducted.
• In collaboration with relevant stockholders, economically needy female students get assistance  
• Empower female students to protect themselves from any violence and/or abuse during their stay in the campus. 
• In collaboration with guidance and counseling office female students learning in each campus of the University get advice and counseling service.
• In collaboration with relevant stockholders, female students get service within the campus so that their time, labor, money and other social risks illuminated.
• Establish collaboration with other universities and female student gets the opportunity to share experience.