This study report is part of a larger research programme, the Global Research Translation Award: Meeting the SDGs: creating innovative infrastructures and policy solutions to support sustainable development in Global South communities. The University of East Anglia's (UEA) Global Research Translation Award (GRTA) sets out to help tackle health, nutrition, education and environment issues in developing countries. The GRTA has been funded as part of the UK government's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Innovation and Commercialisation Programme, developed to fast-track promising research findings into real-world solutions. The overarching project comprises four interconnected sub-projects addressing child malnutrition, sustainable food systems, family literacy and microplastic pollution. These projects work across disciplines and scales, supporting the strengthening of capacities at multiple levels -- from communities to implementers, researchers, universities, media agencies, industry and policy makers, with a view to longterm sustainability. Bahir Dar University is a partner of the UEA UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation, sharing an understanding of literacy as a social practice, and this ideological stance has shaped this project too. The UNESCO Chair was established in 2016 at the University of East Anglia, UK, as a collaboration with six universities in Malawi, Nepal, the Philippines, Ethiopia and Egypt. The aim is to develop understanding about how adult learning -- particularly for women and young adults - can help address inequalities in the poorest communities of the world. Through investigating how or why adult literacy might facilitate or respond to processes of social transformation, including women's empowerment, the UEA UNESCO Chair programme works to strengthen the interaction between formal, nonformal and informal learning in research, policy and practice. [This report was collaboration between Bahir Dar University (Ethiopia) and University of East Anglia's UNESCO Chair in Adult Literacy and Learning for Social Transformation (United Kingdom). It was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).]