Ethiopia

Technical Advisor: Decentralisation, Local Development & Gender Equity

The UNCDF is recruiting a Technical Adviser for its decentralisation and local development programmes in Ethiopia, particularly the Emerging Regions Development Programme (EDDP), a $13.4 ...more

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Sustainable Land Management Project, Ethiopia

By improving assets registration, ownership can be better secured and collateral quality can often improve. Inspiration can be drawn from the outcome level indicators in this World Bank land management project from Ethiopia.

The Impact of Roads and Agricultural Extension on Consumption Growth

This Oxford paper investigates whether public investments that led to improvements in road quality and increased access to agricultural extension services led to faster consumption growth and lower rates of poverty in rural Ethiopia. The study includes examples of indicators on transport infrastructure for LED.

Microfinance opportunities have been successfully expanding in Ethiopia during the past fifteen years, including in remote villages, where the majority of people are engaged in smallscale agriculture, which is little supported by modern technology.

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Improve Your Business Association

The Ethiopian Business Development Service Network has developed this guide on how to improve business associations, both concerning services to members and management of the association. The guide includes useful process indicators for support to associations.

Enterprise Development Diagnostic (MEASURE) for Ethiopia

USAID's Business Growth Initiaitive BGI has developed an enterprise development diagnostic (MEASURE) to provide USAID missions with a tool that assists them in understanding: Changes in business performance; Changes in business behavior and decision making; and How those changes are impacted by changes in the business economic environment, focused on the firm level. The MEASURE tool is comprised of relevant indicators, coupled with an enterprise survey. This paper explains the MEASURE tool and the findings from the Ethiopia pilot. Thanks to USAID.

Value Chain Development , Ethiopia July 6-10

6 Jul 2009 - 10 Jul 2009

Where: Ethiopia

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The Impact of Roads and Agricultural Extension on Consumption, Growth and Poverty in Fifteen Ethiopian Villages

Do you need evidence that private investment in roads and agricultural extension could play a role in growth and faster poverty reduction in rural locations? Find some here from Ethiopia in this recent empirical study.

Tackling Rural Poverty Together: Best Practices

This resource links to over 70 best practice examples of agriculture and rural development. Browse by region, country, or via clusters of chapters. Includes summaries and full texts. Ideas can be tailored and integrated into LED programmes and projects.