This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The brief includes an overview of Ethiopia’s geography and landscape, observed historical climate changes, and projected changes to key climate stressors. The profile …
Many global issues are climate-related, including basic needs such as food, water, health and shelter. Changes in climate may threaten these needs with increased temperatures, sea level rise, changes in precipitation, and more frequent or intense extreme events. Climate change will affect individuals and groups differently. Certain groups of people …
Ethiopia has launched two climate resilient strategies for Agriculture, Forest & Environment, and Water & energy that will be implemented up to the year 2030. The strategies were launched at Radisson Blu Hotel in the presence of the state ministers for the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Ministry of Environment & …
This paper provides field experiment–based evidence on the potential additional forest carbon sequestration that cleaner and more fuel-efficient cookstoves might generate. The paper focuses on the Mirt (meaning “best”) cookstove, which is used to bake injera, the staple food in Ethiopia. The analysis finds that the technology generates per-meal fuel …
The bars and cafes are full and lively in the northern Ethiopian town of Mekelle—but they are no longer smoke-filled, with the strict implementation of a smoking ban in public places. "It's a good thing," said Hiriti, the owner of a small bar in a busy street. "Of course, some …
To realize the sustainable development of the nation and to do away with the impact of climate change, Ethiopian agriculture, forests, water and renewable energy sectors jointly launched a strategy that could help address the challenges, here yesterday. Speaking on the occasion, State Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy Wondimu …
WaterAid is working hard to ensure that a portion of the US $100 billion committed to climate change every year from 2020 (known as climate finance) is directed towards the essential services – such as water, sanitation and hygiene – that poor people need to be resilient to change. WaterAid …
Addis Abeba Water & Sewerage Authority (AWSSA) is deploying 10 mobile liquid waste treatment plants, which it has procured for 759 million Br of its own budget, at seven condominium sites. The Kality site refines 7,500 cubic metres a day; it is currently undergoing a 100 million dollar expansion, with …
The Rural Electrification Fund Office (RE) plans to buy and distribute 4,404 solar home systems (SHS) and 24 institutional solar systems in 2015/16. It is also working on a new five-year project for the purchase and distribution of 200,000 SHS and 600,000 improved cook stoves. These projects are part of …
Diseases that could be easily prevented and controlled by 2020 have already been identified. The Ministry of Health said priority will be given to prevent and control eight diseases during the Second Growth and Transformation Plan period. Speaking at a relevant consultative forum in Bahir Dar with partner organizations, Health …
Ghana has slipped further on its sanitation performance globally to become the World’s 7th worst performing country, according to a new report released on Tuesday. The Joint Monitoring Programme report, “Progress on Sanitation and Drinking Water: 2015 Update and MDG Assessment,” a collaborative effort between the World Health Organisation (WHO) …
Ethiopia and the European Union on Saturday signed two financial agreements amounting €190 million to support Ethiopia’s road sector and safety net programs.€140 million of the fund will be channeled to support the Fourth Road Sector Policy Support Program of the nation while the remaining €50 million will go to …
How to finance progress towards universal health coverage in low-income and middle-income countries is a subject of intense debate. We investigated how alternative tax systems aff ect the breadth, depth, and height of health system coverage. The researchers used cross-national longitudinal fi xed effects models to assess the relationships between …
A report by the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announces today in Addis Abeba that sixth Millennium Development Goal of halting and reversing the spread of HIV has been achieved and exceeded nine months ahead of schedule. The report, "How AIDS Changed Everything," officially released today at Zewuditu …
More than 120,000 households across Ethiopia are expected to benefit from significant new investment in water, wastewater and sanitation infrastructure. Three leading European development finance institutions today confirmed more than €81 million of support for the upgrading programme to improve water services around the country by the Ministry of Water, …
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, centre, arrives for the opening of The Third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa Rich and poor countries have agreed to overhaul global finance for international development and unlock money to end global poverty. The United Nations announced the deal on …
Africa: Addis - UN Agency Stresses Role of Partnerships to Finance Inclusive, Sustainable Industrial Development The world has exceeded the targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals to halt and reverse the spread of HIV and is on track to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, according to a report …
Africa: Achieving Zero Hunger - Combining Social Protection With Pro-Poor Investments A key financing platform for the United Nations Secretary-General's Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health and the Sustainable Development Goals, the Global Financing Facility (GFF) launched here in Addis Abeba on Monday at the Third International Financing …
The African Water Facility (AWF) has provided 27.5 million Birr grant to Ethiopia to improve sanitation and waste management in Arba Minch town of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples State. The project will benefit over 21,000 people who will have access to improved toilet facilities. It will also boost …
Cairo — Within two weeks, a tripartite meeting by Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia will be held in Khartoum to resume negotiations on the impact of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile River's water provision on the two downstream countries. The decision was taken at a meeting of 12 …
This paper uses a randomized experimental design with real-time electronic stove temperature measurements and controlled cooking tests to estimate the fuelwood and carbon dioxide savings from an improved cookstove program in the process of being implemented in rural Ethiopia. Knowing more about how households interact with improved cookstoves is important, …
