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.
Ethiopia celebrated the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Week joining 170 countries around the world from November 18-24 under the themes of Education, Ecosystem, Inclusion and Policy.
The celebration is hosted in Ethiopia by UNDP supported Entrepreneurship Development Centre (EDC) to raise awareness on entrepreneurship and advance entrepreneurship in the country.
The 2019 African Innovation Week 2019 was held in Addis Ababa from October 28th – November 2nd. Over 3,000 participants participated in the week-long event which held panel discussions on the areas of innovation, digitalization, E-commerce, women in innovation, entrepreneurship, tourism tech, trade and investment among others.
Ethiopia, a nation with 70% of its population below the age of 30 has a huge potential for innovation to drive its development given the enabling environment.
The International Peace Day was marked under the theme of “Climate Action for Peace” at the UN Conference Center in Addis Ababa.
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency signed an additional 3.6 million USD agreement with UNDP and The Ministry of Finance to support governance reform initiatives in Ethiopia.
UNDP ANNUAL REPORT 2018
2018 WAS A REMARKABLE YEAR FOR UNDP. It was our first full year of implementing a new Strategic Plan—a plan built to help countries deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals.
At a time of change for the United Nations, we worked with our partners to help people get on their feet and stay there—meeting short-term needs while laying the foundations for a hopeful, confident future.
In the next pages you will see some of the many results we achieved in 2018. They reinforce that UNDP is uniquely designed to help solve complex development problems in a courageous, integrated, and innovative way.
Today, UNDP’s mission has never been as clear: we are here to help 170 countries and territories to reach their development priorities so that no one on this planet is left behind. Read the full report
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 economic 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
95.5 million
Population
23.5%
Poverty rate
USD 883
GNI per capita
0.463
Human Dev. Index
