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National Nutrition Strategy

Ethiopia, Health

The strategy provides a comprehensive guideline to coordinate all efforts and activities towards improving nutrition status. The main objective of the strategy is to ensure optimum nutrition for all citizens. It however prioritises pregnant and lactating women, infants and children under five years of age, people living with HIV/AIDS, displaced population groups, food-insecure households, and some other population groups.

Ethiopia 2008 Health

National Strategy and Action Plan for the Implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative in Ethiopia

Environmental Protection Authority, Ethiopia

“The National Strategy and Action Plan for the Implementation of the Great Green Wall highlight the evolution of the Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative (GGWSSI); presents an assessment of Ethiopia’s biophysical, socio-economic and policy, legislation and institutional aspects as they relate to the initiative and potential areas across the GGWSSI development. The strategy consists of six pillars namely: sustainable management of natural resources and improved production systems, development of basic socio-economic infrastructures, development of income-generating activities, promotion of good local governance, capacity building of stakeholders, and research and knowledge management. The overall goal of the GGWSSI is to improve the resilience of human and natural systems in the Sahel-Saharan zone against climate changes”.

Ethiopia 2012 Environment and Climate Change

National School Health and Nutrition Strategy

Ethiopia, Health

The strategy acts on the premise that children’s learning abilities are impaired by poor health and nutrition. The strategy shifts the focus of health and nutrition needs away from pre-school children and mere survival, to school-age children, and better quality of life. Its goal is to improve access and educational achievement of school children through health and nutrition interventions. It also pushes towards coordination of all school health nutrition activities and interventions.

Ethiopia 2012 Health

Strategy for the Prevention and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance for Ethiopia (2015-2020)

Ethiopia, Ethiopian Food, Medicine, and Healthcare Administration and Authority

“This strategy includes effective antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prevention and containment of the ever-increasing range of infectious threats caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi in humans, animals, agriculture, and the environment. The multiple stakeholders across sectors and the whole of society will be coordinated for the prevention and containment of AMR. The vision of the strategy is a society where antimicrobials are recognized and managed as a valuable and shared resource, maintaining their efficacy so that infections in humans and animals remain treatable and communities continue to benefit from the advances that antimicrobials enable”.

Ethiopia 2015 Health

Ethiopian Water Resources Management Policy

Ethiopia, Water, Energy and Irrigation

“This Water Resources Management Policy of Ethiopia aims at enhancing the development of the country’s water resources to make an optimum contribution to accelerated socio-economic growth. The overall goal of the Policy is to enhance and promote all national efforts towards the efficient, equitable and optimum utilization of the available Water Resources of Ethiopia for significant socioeconomic development on a sustainable basis. Its objectives are Development of the water resources of the country for economic and social benefits of the people, on an equitable and sustainable basis; allocation and apportionment of water, based on comprehensive and integrated plans and optimum allocation principles that incorporate the efficiency of use, equity of access, and sustainability of the resource; managing and combating drought and floods; conserving, protecting and enhancing water resources and the overall aquatic environment on a sustainable basis”.

Ethiopia 1999 Utilities

National Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding

Ethiopia, Health

The overarching goal of this strategy is to improve infant and young child feeding practices in Ethiopia. The Strategy provides technical guidance for mothers, on infant and young children feeding, and providing recommendations.

Ethiopia 2004 Health

Wildlife Strategy and Policy

Ethiopia, Institute of Biodiversity Conservation

The policy acknowledges the non-realization of the potential benefits inherent in the country’s wildlife and forestry sector. It states that the threats faced by the sector arise from illegal and improper land use ranging from illegal encroachment, poaching, and settlement. The strategy and policy follow from existing international natural resources and development principles in seeking to arrest the rapid decline in the numbers of wildlife, and realization of the potential in the sector in form of tourism, sports, and trade. The major objective of the policy is to create a conducive environment whereby the country’s wildlife and their habitats are protected and developed sustainably.

Ethiopia 2011 Environment and Climate Change

National Conservation Strategy Volume IV; Action Plan for the National Policy on Natural Resources and the Environment

Ethiopia, Natural resources Development and Environmental Protection

This document is the fourth volume of the national policy on natural resources and the environment. Volume 1 examined the underlying state of the country’s natural resources, volume II presented a policy and strategic framework for the sustainable use of the resources, while III dealt with questions arising with regards to institutions and implementation plans for the strategies. This volume IV highlights plans and actions across a framework of cross-sectoral and sectoral programmes to translate the strategies in volume II into actionable activities.

Ethiopia 1994 Environment and Climate Change

Health Policy of the Transitional Government of Ethiopia

Ethiopia, Health

This highlights the holistic plans of the transitional government for Ethiopia. The general policy pointers include the democratization and decentralization of the health service system; the development of the preventive and promotive components of health care; development of an equitable and acceptable standard of the health service system that will reach all segments of the population within the limits of recourses; promoting and strengthening of intersectoral activities; the provision of health care for the population on a scheme of payment according to ability with special assistance mechanisms for those who cannot afford to pay; and promoting the participation of the private sector and non-governmental organizations in health care.

Ethiopia 1993 Health

Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector Growth and Transformation Plan II (2015-2020)

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ethiopia

The Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector Growth and Transformation Plan II (ANR-GTP II) follows from the First Growth and Transformation Plan and leverages on the lessons drawn from its implementation. The ANR GTP II represents the agriculture and natural resources national visions, goals, and strategies aimed at contributing towards the national target of achieving a Middle-Income economy.

Ethiopia 2016 Agriculture and Rural Development

Ethiopia: Progress Towards Achieving the Millenium Development Goals: Successes, Challenges, and Prospects

Ethiopia, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development

This report explicitly explains Ethiopia’s drive towards achieving the MDGs. It shows the progress made so far, with the policies, strategies, and programs explored to attain current progress. It also describes the challenges encountered in the course of the journey as well as hopes and prospects for the future.

Ethiopia 2008 National Development

National Strategy for Ethiopia's Agricultural Extension System

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ethiopia

The strategy contains the visions, systemic bottlenecks, and priority interventions for the agricultural extension system in Ethiopia. The novel strategy on agricultural extension is based on the push to drive agricultural productivity and improve food security and nutrition through the development of innovative and farmer-owned extension services. The objective of the extension system is to “transform Ethiopia’s agriculture through implementation of pluralistic extension system and by providing demand-driven and market-led extension services to male, female and youth farmers, pastoralists and agro-pastoralists”.

Ethiopia 2014 Agriculture and Rural Development

National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan

Ethiopia, Institute of Biodiversity Conservation

The strategy and action plan state that Ethiopia’s population of world rarest animals is gradually on the decline due to overuse and loss of natural habitats, due to the ever-growing human population. Deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and desertification thus threaten the biodiversity and natural resources base of the country. The strategy and action plan address interrelated issues ranging from biodiversity protection and management for food security to improving the livelihood of the populace, especially the rural population.

Ethiopia 2005 Environment and Climate Change

The Civil Liability for Bunker Oil Pollution Damage Convention Ratification Proclamation

Council of Ministers/Transport and Communications, Ethiopia

A proclamation to ratify the international convention on civil liability for bunker oil pollution damage as adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 2001. The ministry of transportation and communications is authorized to carry out implementation processes.

Ethiopia 2009 Environment and Climate Change

Relief and Rehabilitation Commission Establishment Proclamation

Council of Ministers/Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission, Ethiopia

This proclamation repeals The relief and rehabilitation commission order 93 of 1974 and the settlement authority establishment proclamation 78 of 1976. it subsequently establishes the relief and rehabilitation commission as an autonomous public authority to be accountable to the chairman of the council of ministers. It transfers all rights, liabilities, and assets of the repealed organs to the commission. It sets out the purposes of the commission, powers and duties, organization and composition, and other miscellaneous provisions.

Ethiopia 1979 Democracy and Governance

National Agricultural Input Authority Establishment proclamation

Council of Ministers/Rural Development, Ethiopia

The proclamation establishes the national agricultural input authority as an autonomous body of the federal government. The authority shall be accountable to the ministry of rural development. “The objective of the Authority is to ensure that the production, supply, distribution and marketing of agricultural inputs is undertaken efficiently and effectively, and capacity is built in the sector to benefit producers and the user community”.

Ethiopia 2002 Agriculture and Rural Development

National Information and Communication Technology Policy and Strategy

Ethiopia, Ministry of Innovation and Technology

This policy provides the necessary guidelines and frameworks to chart the growth of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in the country. It has an overarching resolve to ensure that ICT serves as a means of driving and contributing to the country’s long-term goals.

Ethiopia 2009 Science and Technology

Urban Lands Lease Holding Proclamation

Council of Ministers/Works and Urban Development, Ethiopia

A Proclamation to provide for the utilization of urban land. It defines Urban land as all land within the boundaries of a town. The Proclamation shall not apply to land previously utilized for the construction of dwellings. It contains provisions for applications for persons who desire to hold urban lands in the lease, duration of leases, transfer of mortgages, and termination of lease agreements, among others.

Ethiopia 1993 Infrastructure and Construction