The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will enhance its support around democratic governance and inclusive growth in Ethiopia to meet the country’s accelerated reform agenda and deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Japan has signed an agreement with UNDP to extend support for the Ethiopian Peace Support Training Centre (PSTC) and provide new funding of USD 729,000 for 2019-2020.
A two-day regional conference in Addis Ababa ended with strong calls for translating commitment from Ethiopia and Kenya authorities into social transformation to change the narrative of cross border communities.
Danish Minister for Development Cooperation H.E. Ulla Tornaes has signed a cooperation agreement with UNDP and UN Women to release a total of US$ 4.5 million for the two UN agencies in support of their work in Ethiopia in the areas of governance and gender.
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) have signed a service level agreement to provide a new framework for UNDP’s strategic management support for the RCO in Ethiopia.
The first field office bordering Ethiopia and Kenya was opened today in Moyale city, southern Ethiopia, to address the drivers of conflict and instability, irregular migration and displacement in these cross-border areas.
UNDP Accelerator Labs
Solving development challenges require going beyond business as usual and calls for an inter-disciplinary approach to tap into local insights and knowledge.
UNDP has begun incubating a number of strategic initiatives to deliver a new generation of solutions in line with the challenges the world faces. One such key strategic initiatives is the Country Accelerator Lab Network, which is an investment in the emerging momentum among a growing number of UNDP Country Offices
Ethiopia is among the 60 pilot countries to implement accelerator labs to help accelerate development impact and strengthen UNDP office capacity to help address emerging challenges.
UNDP Ethiopia is hiring people who are curious, persistent, and deeply committed to social change.
Deadline extended to 15th March 2019
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 - Human Development Report
Between 2000 and 2017, Ethiopia’s HDI value increased from 0.283 to 0.463, an increase of 63.5 percent. Ethiopia’s HDI value for 2017 is 0.463— which put the country in the low human development category— positioning it at 173 out of 189 countries and territories.
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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 econmic growth, democratic governance as well as climate resilient development. To browse through all our projects visit UNDP's open data platform
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About Ethiopia
92.2 million
Population
23.4
Poverty rate
USD 794
GNI per capita
0.448
Human Dev. Index
