The main purpose of this study was to assess the food security status of urban Female-HeadedrnHouseholds (FHHs) and their coping strategies in Woreda aI, Gullelle Sub-city of Addis Ababa.rnMixed approach of qualitative and quantitative study was used for conducting the study. The mainrndata collection methods employed during the study was household Survey, in-depth interview andrnFocus Group Discussion (FGD). The data were analyzed using frequency tables, percentage,rnpearsons's correlation and cross tabulation. And their food security status was also reckoned usingrnCoping Strategy Index and Food Consumption Score calculation developed by Dan Maxwell andrnWorld Food Program (WFP) respectively.rnThe outcome of the study indicates that most of the FHHs relied on informal workfor their livelihood.rnConcerning their food security status, based on the above mentioned measurements most of them arernfood insecure. Using Food Consumption Score and WFP standard, it is found that 50.8% of thernsample households are under poor food consumption, 43.3% are in borderline and only the remainingrn5.9% are in acceptable food consumption level. Using Coping Strategy Index, it is found that allrnhouseholds use various types of coping strategies which implies that the sample households have foodrnsecurity problem. Based on quartile ranking categorization of food security status of the households,rnthe study shows that 19.2% of the household are extremely severe food insecure status, 26.7% arernsevere food insecure status, 26.7% are moderately severe food insecure status and 27.5% are leastrnsevere insecure status.rnThe study shows FHHs food insecurity problem is mainly attributed to lack of education coupled withrnlow income, current food price inflation, less social capital, poor health and lack of physical capitalrnespecially housing. This in turn has an impact in buying better quantity and quality of food. It was alsornfound that most food insecure households have various coping strategies to withstand food stress suchrnas relying on less preferred and less expensive food, limiting the volume of meal, restrictingrnconsumption order for small children and skipping meals. The extremely severe strategy is sendingrnchildren to eat with neighbors and sending household members for begging. Thus, the governmentrninterventions are highly required to address these problems, specifically after the extremely severerncoping strategy.