Ethiopia’s economic growth has been remarkable, but the country still faces substantial development challenges. Growing disparities between urban and rural areas, and within rural areas, must be reduced. Economic growth has also...
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Decentralisation reforms have rarely bred empowered democratic local authorities. Discretion and accountability relationships depend on the political economy of each country, and historical/colonial legacies. Findings result from...
This paper from the United Nations Capital Development Fund provides an overview of lessons learned from the design and implementation of performance-based grant systems (PBGSs) for local governments in 15 developing countries...
Presentation of the Civil Society Fund in Ethiopia during the “Celebrating the Past – Preparing the future” workshop in Addis Ababa on January 2012.
The CSF programme started in 2006. A decision to implement a second phase of CSF was required by end-2007. An external mid-term review was therefore called to examine the operation of the different aspects of the programme and...
EC Civil Society Forum in Ethiopia brochure made at the occasion of the wrap-up workshop hold in Addis Ababa in January 2012 The CSF Brochure, contains a brief explanation of the programme, the speeches of State Minister and HoD...
China’s furniture craze drives Siam rosewood to extinction May 12, 2014 China’s luxury furniture craze steeped in blood & driving Siam rosewood to extinction BANGKOK : Precious Siamese rosewood has been illegally logged to the...
Publication Date: March 2012 Published by the Water Resources and Environment Administration (WREA) with technical and financial support from UNEP, this report assesses the state of the environment in Laos and discusses policy...
Publication Date: February 2013 The Poverty Environment Iniative (PEI) is a global UN programme that helps countries to integrate poverty-environment linkages into national and sub-national development planning, from policymaking...
In order to support the ongoing RESET programme implemented by more than 25 NGOs and in close collaboration with the local and regional authorities, the Delegation of the European Union to Ethiopia requested the Ethiopian...