COVID-19 has struck Ethiopia, the second most populous country in Africa, at a moment of heightened vulnerability arising from multiple sources.
UNDP is partnering with the EU on a new health and pollution project in Ethiopia that will advance sustainability in the health and environmental sector. The partnership is part of a global EU support for a multi-party engagement on UNDP health, environment, and pollution action. The three-year project will contribute to a safe and clean environment and advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
UNDP has launched of a new six-year project entitled Climate Change Adaptation in the Lowland Ecosystems of Ethiopia. The USD six million project is funded by the Least Developed Country Fund and will be implemented together with the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission
UNDP has signed a Letter of Intent with the National Bank of Ethiopia(NBE) to support the establishment of Capital Market Development Authority and Innovative Finance Lab.
UNDP joined the Ethiopia Job Creation Commission and xHub Addis to recognize and award seventeen digital startups. The selected digital entrepreneurs went through a four-month AHUN incubation programme to help them cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset and thrive in an ever-changing local and global business environment.
UNDP’s COVID19 support partnership with Japan has helped to create jobs for vulnerable communities who were finding it hard to make ends meet during the pandemic, while communities have been supported to invest in keeping their cities clean and green.
Ethiopia Launch - Human Development Report 2020
The 30th edition of UNDP’s Human Development Report (HDR) 2020, prepared under the theme “The Next Frontier: Human Development and the Anthropocene” was launched globally on December 15, 2020, followed by regional and national launches around the world.
In Ethiopia, a virtual launch and panel discussion was held on December 16, 2020.
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UNDP Strategic Plan 2022-2025
The Strategic Plan 2022-2025 describes how UNDP intends to work together with our partners to deliver what’s required of us in these extraordinary times. This bold, ambitious Plan is structured around “3x6x3” – 3 directions of change, 6 signature solutions and 3 enablers – a clear framework for where we need to head. Over the next four years, we will work with countries to expand people’s choices for a fairer, sustainable future. Helping to get us back on track to deliver on the SDGs. (Download)
UNDP has operated in Ethiopia since 1981. Since then, UNDP has focused on providing Ethiopia with strategic support to build national capacity and enhance the country’s development results in the areas of poverty reduction and economic growth, democratic governance as well as climate resilient development. To browse through all our projects visit UNDP's open data platform
UNDP Announces New Research Fellowship Programme for Ethiopia
UNDP Ethiopia is launching a Research Fellowship Programme to support the implementation of its new Country Programme Document (CPD: 2020 – 2025).
Two fellows will be selected to design and deliver policy and programme-relevant empirical research papers focused on one of the specific thematic areas of interest to the CO namely: i) democratic governance and peacebuilding; ii) creating shared prosperity; and iii) supporting the transition to a sustainable, green economy.
To apply visit https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=100297
UN SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF COVID-19 IN ETHIOPIA
This socio-economic impact assessment has been drafted by the United Nations in Ethiopia and reflects collective assessment of the scale, nature and depth of socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in the country.
The global covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented and the immediate implications of the crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa are already very serious. Despite the still relatively small caseload, the sharp deterioration of global conditions and the response measures taken in the region to combat the pandemic have already precipitated a major socio-economic crisis. Ethiopia has not been spared.
In Ethiopia the socio-economic impacts are already wide-ranging and serious with the potential to become severe depending on the combination of the pandemic’s trajectory, the effects of counter-measures and underlying and structural factors.
The assessment urges for policy response that puts people and their rights at the center, especially those most impacted and left behind. It calls on Ethiopia to avoid artificial and damaging demarcations, between response and recovery, and between humanitarian, health and socio-economic dimensions of the crisis. Download the assessment
UN Sustainable Development Framework (2020-2025)
The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) represents the United Nations cooperation framework with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia for the period 2020-2025. It replaces the previous United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Ethiopia (2016-2020). The UNSDCF presents the key shared objectives of the United Nations system, the areas in which it intends to support the Government of Ethiopia and its people, and the expected outcomes of its cooperation.
Download the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for 2020-2025
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About Ethiopia
95.5 million
Population
23.5%
Poverty rate
USD 883
GNI per capita
0.463
Human Dev. Index
