• Active PTAs that mobilize the community to work with and support the schools • Providing comparatively better quality education as evidenced by the leading scores that children register in inter-school and woreda level academic competitions The support provided by the projects to eradicate HTPs have successfully been carried out in all the project areas and has resulted in the enrollment of more and more number of children including girls, CWDs and children of the marginalized Fuga minority community (in the case of SNNPR). Not only children but adults particularly women have benefits from these initiatives where they are being treated as equals with men and also are having access to modern health facilities wherever available. The IGA groups established to support poor families/mothers with a bid to eventually ensure that their children enroll in school and remain in the education system are still functional and the members are benefiting. The IGA group members and the schools have confirmed that their children are in the school and the purpose of the project in this connection is still being served. The introduction of the CLFZ project to eliminate child labor and ensure that every school age child is enrolled in school is one of the most appreciated interventions by the Este and Siraro WEOs. Both offices claimed that the project helped release many children from child labor and brought more children to school. Other a result of the success, in some places for example in Siraro, coping with the high demand on schools to accommodate additional children was a challenge. While the idea of CLFZ still remains a challenge, it has been proved that previous CLFZ projects have left behind high positive impacts towards eventually eliminating child labor. Though no systematic tracer studies have been done and data not collected either by the schools or the WEO, based on the information gathered by the evaluation team, most first generation students of the projects are still in the education system (some making it to secondary school level) and are among the best ranking students in the schools they are transferred to including high schools. 55
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