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Ethiopia’s Green Finance and Energy Landscape Takes Center Stage at Annual Development Conference

UNDP commits to help Ethiopia innovatively mobilise US$ 2 billion in green financing by 2030 by helping the country explore green bonds, carbon credits, debt swaps, and payment for ecosystem services.

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Ethiopia launched timbuktoo ManuTech Hub
Ethiopia Launches timbuktoo Pan-African ManuTech Hub

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry of Industry, in collaboration with the inter-ministerial startup committee, have launched a hub to catalyze innovation and collaboration around manufacturing technology in Africa.

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Japan Helps Strengthen Service Delivery and Law Enforcement in Conflict-Affected Regions in Northern Ethiopia

The Government of Japan is reinforcing its partnership with UNDP in line with its commitment to Ethiopia’s peace and recovery efforts.

Japan has been a key partner in UNDP’s multi-partner Peace Support Facility, providing approximately $3M to assist local authorities in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray to rebuild after the northern Ethiopia conflict.

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Thirst for Change: The Fight for Access to Safe Water

Even before conflict erupted in northern Ethiopia, access to safe water was limited. In Abergele, just 30% of people had access to piped water. In Tsagibji, many relied on shallow ponds, which are unprotected and exposed to contamination.

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Our Programmes

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Democratic Governance and Sustaining Peace

Enhancing democratic practices, promoting social cohesion, and ensuring justice and accountability throughout Ethiopia.

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Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability

The capacity of Ethiopia to adapt to climate impacts and promote environmental sustainability for accelerated green growth will be achieved through interconnected priorities.

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Inclusive Economic Transformation

Multifaceted challenges to the Ethiopian economy and marginalized communities are addressed with a particular emphasis on the socioeconomic empowerment of women and youth.

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Ethiopia's DDR Process

The National Rehabilitation Commission has initiated the demobilization and rehabilitation of 75,000 ex-combatants from the Tigray Region, marking a significant step in Ethiopia’s peace process.

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Peace Support for northern Ethiopia

The UNDP-managed multipartner peace support/stabilisation programme is nestled within Ethiopia’s wider Resilient Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF), and is a time-bound, localised, integrated, civilian stabilisation programme delivered at scale and with speed in order to build trust between communities and legitimate authorities, and lay the foundations for recovery, peacebuilding, and development programmes.

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Working Paper 5

Financing Ethiopia's Green Transition

Ethiopia is navigating complex challenges in the areas of green finance and green energy. Like all countries, Ethiopia has been adversely impacted by the global climate crisis, which is jeopardizing its development path.

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Working Paper 4

Can Ethiopia Become a Manufacturing Powerhouse?

The manufacturing sector in Ethiopia has faced several recent challenges, partly linked to the trifecta of macroeconomic pressures, security challenges, and exogenous shocks.

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Working Paper 3

From Debt to Development: What are Ethiopia's Choices

Ethiopia is at a crossroads. Buffeted by major external and internal shocks compressed within the short space of two years (2020-22), it faces the daunting policy challenge of finding a feasible and effective pathway out of crisis in order to return to rapid and sustainable development.

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Working Paper 2

Ethiopia 2030: A Country Transformed?

Ethiopia is at a crossroads. It faces a daunting confluence of a rapidly growing and young population, the widespread effects of serious shocks, an uncertain domestic and external environment, including a subregion in flux, and a generally higher level of risk - often large scale - that threaten sustained and inclusive development progress. Managing the country’s development policy agenda has, therefore, become more complex and difficult.

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Working Paper 1

Poverty, Human Development and the Macro-Economy in Ethiopia

In recent years, Ethiopia has faced a confluence of shocks, some emerging from within the country and some from the global economy that threaten to slow the pace of economic and other reforms that are vital for rapid recovery, peacebuilding and the expansion of Ethiopia’s development frontier. 

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Policy Brief

Making Ethiopian Customary Institutions Relevant for the National Dialogue and Reconciliation Processes

Customary Institutions, Ethiopia's ancient instruments for conflict prevention and management, have served as important platforms in preventing and resolving conflicts and playing roles in smoothing broken societal/communal relationships and building/strengthening societal bonds. 

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UNDP provides evidence-based policy advice about sustainable development trends.

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About Ethiopia

107.6 million

Population (2022/23)

23.5%

Poverty rate (2015/16)

USD 1,549

GNI per capita (2022/23)

0.492

Human Dev. Index (2023/24)

97

percent

of rural households are engaged in agriculture (WB survey 2023)

25

percent

of Ethiopian households are headed by women

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