This week the Austria Development Cooperation, UNDP and FAO partnered with the Government to launch a two-year project in Somali region of Ethiopia that will provide livelihood support for households affected by drought.
UNDP Africa’s seminal report on “Journey to extremism in Africa” was presented in Addis Ababa today.
According to the study, between 2011 and 2016, over 33,000 fatalities in Africa are said to be caused by extremism.
The report highlighted the root causes of violent extremism in Africa and its destabilizing impact on the continent, and stressed the need for countries to stop automatically looking towards military operations as the best approach.
Only 5% of rural households in Ethiopia have access to modern energy technologies. Setting and implementing standards, particularly on renewable energy, is key to enhance the sustainable market based solutions in the off-grid areas.
A national consultative forum has brought together participants from across the country for a multi-stakeholder dialogue on diversity and national unity within Ethiopia’s federal system.
The grant is part of a wider five-year project on Promoting Sustainable Rural Energy Technologies (RETs) for Household and Productive Use and is in line with the global Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. It also complements national priorities, such as those encompassed within the Ethiopia’s energy policy as well as climate resilient green economy strategy.
The UNDP programme, Enhancing Livelihood Restoration and Resilience of Refugee Hosting Communities and Internally Displaced Peoples, is implemented with 1.5 million USD financial support of the Government of Japan to respond to the restoration and peaceful co-existence of refugee and host communities. The intervention seeks to help refugee hosting communities to cope with the environmental, economic and social impact of hosting a large influx of refugees.
UNDP signed a USD 500,000 project to continue its support to the Ethiopia Peace Support Training Centre (EPSTC) with the financial support of the Government of Japan.
The newly signed fund will be used to primarily strengthen the institutional and human capacity of the centre for provision of training, transfer of skills and expertise to future peacekeeping practitioners.
Sweden partners with UNDP to support Ethiopia’s forest sector
Sweden has signed an agreement with UNDP pledging US$ 5 million to support Ethiopia’s forest sector development programme.
Signing the agreement with UNDP, Ms Annika Jayawardena, head of development cooperation at the Embassy of Sweden in Ethiopia explained that, ‘Sweden’s investment in building climate resilience is a renewed interest in its support for Ethiopia’, and that partnering with a pioneer organization like UNDP strengthens capacity for achieving longer term impact.
UNDP’s Ethiopia and China offices explore collaboration to promote South-South Cooperation
UNDP’s Ethiopia and China explore collaborations to promote South-South and Trilateral Cooperation.
Ethiopia’s second national Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP 2015-2020) predicts that employment levels in large and medium enterprises will rise from 380,000 to 757,600 by 2019/20, accounting for an average annual growth of 15%.
The industrial sector share of the country’s GDP is growing over the years and has reached 16.7% in 2015/16, while the same period the manufacturing sector and specifically large and medium scale manufacturing sector accounted for 5.4% and 4.4% of GDP respectively.
Ethiopia chapter - African Economic Outlook 2017
The 16th edition of the African Economic Outlook highlights the fact that Africa’s economic performance is reflecting the perils of the global economy. The region’s real GDP growth slowed down to 2.2% in 2016, mainly due to the continued fall in commodity prices and weak global economic growth. East Africa was the fastest growing region at 5.3% real GDP growth, followed by North Africa at 3%. Growth in other regions was anaemic, ranging from a low of 0.4% in West Africa, dragged down by the recession in Nigeria, to 1.1% in Southern Africa, with South Africa, the region’s largest economy, posting only 0.3% growth.
With dynamic private sectors, entrepreneurial spirit and vast resources, Africa has the potential to grow faster and more inclusively. The continent’s average growth is expected to rebound to 3.4% in 2017, assuming that the recovery in commodity prices is sustained, the world economy is strengthened and domestic macroeconomic reforms are entrenched. In 2018, growth is expected to consolidate, expanding by 4.3%.
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About Ethiopia
92.2 million
Population
23.4
Poverty rate
USD 794
GNI per capita
0.448
Human Dev. Index
