Objective: Increase adult literacy and community engagement in the Hadiyya zone, SNNPR, Ethiopia. Activities to achieve objective; an expansion of the authorities’ Functional Adult Literacy program into more woredas in the zone in collaboration with CSOs (currently only in 2 out of 13 woredas); engaging CSOs to provide transition classes for people who are literate in the Saba script to transition this knowledge into Latin script; engage CSOs to provide basic literacy for those who need in order to be able to follow functional literacy classes; further development of materials for teaching and monitoring.