woreda
Noun
Meaning
woreda (plural woredas)
An administrative division of Ethiopia, managed by a local government.
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Examples
Ato Worku Fentahun, head of the woreda health bureau, said during the panel discussion “we selected a few kebeles from our woreda and worked on the health extension intensively.
Regional and sub-regional findings were reviewed and endorsed by Government authorities at woreda, zonal and regional levels.
The woreda health bureau credits the success of the sanitation and hygiene program to an innovative scheme where Kebeles are awarded a "white flag" when they reach certain level of success on sanitation and hygiene and a "black flag" when they fail.
That is, organized into three political levels, Federal, woreda, and neighborhood, each should have the right to autonomy and be allowed to maximize its political self-determination, as stated in Ethiopia’s Federal Constitution.