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Country:Ethiopia

COUNTRY PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE SUMMARY

Reporting period: 2012-2015

I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

UNDP Ethiopia has strategically positioned itself as a partner of choice in efforts to accelerate sustainable growth and human development in Ethiopia. The Country Programme is firmly anchored in Ethiopias Growth and Transformation Plan (2012-2015) and seeks to support the ambitious vision of the Government of Ethiopia to meet the MDGs by 2015 and to become a middle-income country with a climate resilient and green economy by 2025.

UNDP's country programme is aligned with the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF 2011-2015), which seeks to ensure optimal coherence and coordination of the assistance provided by various UN agencies. Ethiopia is recognized as a self-starter country in the Delivering as One agenda. Within the Delivering as One initiative, implementation of the UNDP country programme is undertaken through the UNDAF Action Plan.

The smooth political transition in 2012 and 2013 is largely attributed to long-term investments made into strengthening governance institutions and entrench constitutionalism in the national governance process. UNDP has been implementing a USD 48.6 million Democratic Institutions Programme (DIP) from 2007-13 to support these efforts. Through the support provided by the programme, accountability and responsiveness has improved as a result of increased scrutiny from citizens as well as horizontal accountability of the programme institutions. For instance, audit coverage increased from 32% in 2010 to 97% in 2013, 106 million dollar of embezzled funds were recovered and about 50,000 public officials have registered their assets. Access to justice, respect for the rule of law and human rights protection, social accountability and public confidence in democratic institutions have all improved. The DIP's final evaluation confirmed the crucial and catalytic role of UNDPs support. UNDP promotes social cohesion in Ethiopia and continues to support the countrys peace architecture with a view to preventing conflicts and building the culture of peace .The Government of Ethiopia highly values this support and has demonstrated strong commitment to consolidate and build on established gains.

UNDP also supports the enhancement of the capacities of the federal government and regional states in quality service delivery. The revision of the grant sharing formula for Federal Budget Subsidy Allocation, supported by UNDP, contributed to improved development outcomes in the Developing Regional States. As the budget of DRS increased by 1.5%, child mortality fell from 123 per 1,000 births to 88; net primary enrollment rate increased from 68% to 85%; access to safe water doubled from 35% (2005) to 71% in 2013 (World Bank).

In line with the Growth and Transformation Plans (GTP) focus on catalyzing private sector development and urban unemployment, the Prime Ministers Office launched an Entrepreneurship Development Programme in Feb. 2013, with UNDP support. An Entrepreneurship Development Centre was established as national hub to provide entrepreneurship and enterprise development support, targeting mainly women and youth. To date, the programme enabled 1,049 men and women in 2013 to acquire or improve their entrepreneurial skills.

UNDPs support to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) contributed in the demonstration and adoption of improved technologies and practices, strengthening the capacity of various actors in the agricultural sector and the development of policy.

Since 2011, Ethiopia successfully implementations its Climate Resilient and Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy to effectively reduce vulnerabilities and build resilience. In line with the strategy and with UNDP support, the government is preparing sectoral investment plans, including institutional arrangements for managing green economy interventions and financing. In particular, UNDP supported the establishment of a CRGE Facility and facilitated the Governments work on elaborating the Facilitys operational manual, which was officially launched in Oct. 2013 and has already succeeded in attracting additional resources.

UNDP also provided capacity building support to CRGE main sectors of CRGE, such as Energy, Industry and Agriculture. UNDP supported the government efforts on environmental resource conservation through mainstreaming agro-biodiversity in agricultural practices, climate information, early warning as well as promoting autonomous adaptation at community levels. It has also been working to build national and community resilience through supporting upstream policy support, institutional strengthening, focusing on community livelihood recovery initiatives in the most hazard prone regions of the country.

Building on its comparative advantage, mandate and experience, UNDP Ethiopia is moving upstream, through targeted and catalytic interventions that accelerate broad-based development and safeguard development gains against endogenous and exogenous shocks. The country offices focus is on strengthening national capacities to transform policies and institutions and to empower Ethiopian citizens to achieve this vision. UNDP is leveraging its resources, global knowledge and networks and strong partnerships with government, development partners, private sector and, to an extent, civil society in this process. Gender approaches, knowledge management and South-South cooperation are utilized to facilitate innovation, and scale up good practices.

UNDP has continued to facilitate and strengthen donor coordination in Ethiopia in line with the Rome, Paris, Accra and Busan declarations. In addition, focused partnership building initiatives with emerging economies such as China, India, Korea and Brazil have been prioritized and are complemented by mutual learning and knowledge exchange with countries that share similarities in their development paths, such as Malaysia, Ghana, Rwanda and others.

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II: Country Programme Performance Summary

Country information

Country name: Ethiopia

Current country programme period: 2012-2015

Outcomes

Total Expenditure 2012-2014

Key Indicators of outcome

Progress made against key indicators

1. Increased use by agricultural producers of improved institutional services, efficient marketing system, and appropriate technology and practices for sustainable increase in agricultural production and productivity by 2015 (UNDAF Outcome 1)

USD 21,916,556

a. No. of agricultural producers that adopt improved technologies by type of technology, disaggregated by gender and age and size.

The no. of small-holder farmers that accessed new practices, technologies and markets increased by 161847in 2012 and 962,833 in 2013. Tef agronomic practices were rolled out to 2.5 million smallholder farmers

Trading volume of ECX increased by 23% in 2012-2013

Volume of grain crops production increased by 7.41% in 2012-2013

UNDP Contribution:

The UNDP contribution identified in the CP was to strengthen capacities of government and producer institutions to design, develop and deliver key services. This is being carried out through a comprehensive support package to Ethiopias agricultural transformation initiatives, by supporting the Ministry of Agriculture to implement the Agricultural Growth Programme (AGP) and by providing institutional strengthening and targeted support to Ethiopias Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA).

CP Outputs:

The indicative output(s) identified in the CP were: Best practices scaled up, new technology and markets introduces and services expanded for increased production and productivity in targeted value chains in four regions.

Progress and Achievements:

UNDPs support to the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) contributed in the adoption of improved technologies and practices, strengthening the capacity of various actors in the agricultural sector and the development of policy.

In areas where projects are completed, there is a visible impact, such as improved livelihoods, increased income, improved health and productivity, and improved institutional services. The 2012/13 Ethiopian crop production for example has shown an increase in the estimated cropped land by about 2.78 % and volume of grain crops production by 7.41% compared to the previous year (Central Statistical Agency, 2013). In 2011/12 the total trading volume of ECX, a transformative semi-autonomous entity set up by a consortium of partners which included UNDP, has increased by 23% compared to the previous year to reach a trade value of over 1 billion USD. These results point to promising transformative sectoral outcomes UNDP is leading or associated with.

With UNDP support, the country initiated a diagnostic study for streamlining the countrys food reserves management, which recommended the establishment of the Food Reserves Management Agency.

To promote commercialization of the agricultural sector, UNDP supported the government of Ethiopia to articulate a robust policy for commercial farmers through a diagnostic study of existing commercial farms in the country. Large-scale impacts through scaling up of teff agronomic practices rolled out to 2.5 million smallholder farmers. The Ethiopian Agricultural Research Institute was supported to upgrade its agricultural products quality monitoring & testing laboratory opening the path to new markets abroad.

With UNDPs support, ATA has launched a 5year strategy on cooperatives & seed s