Ethiopia

After a preparatory mission in August 2002, the main mission took place in November 2002. During this mission, a launching workshop was organized.

The National Validation Workshop was held in November 2003.

The final version of the DTIS, which reflects the outcome of the National Workshop, was completed and approved by the Cabinet in June 2004.

The IF Implementation Plan was presented to the National Steering Committee on 4 June 2004. State Minister Fantaye Biftu chaired this meeting.

The Implementation Plan contained 43 prioritized actions, mostly focused on private sector development and trade issues.

During the meeting, donors announced the following:

• USAID: 5-year program now approved; mostly concentrating on supporting agro-business, marketing of agricultural products and rural development,

• Japan: $70,000 to UNDP to support a study on high value agricultural products, another $100,000 under consideration to support trade promotion,

• EU: €5 million for trade capacity-building, but look forward to important reforms in public/private policy areas. Details are being worked out and will include WTO accession, EPA negotiations, and development of international standards for trade and food security/PSD overlapping areas,

• World Bank: the Private Sector Development Capacity Building project, which includes firm level, trade association/sectoral and economy areas; already preparing projects in the areas of WTO accession road map, privatization, implementation of the competition proclamation, and matching grant schemes for firm level capacity building.

During the meeting, the State Minister recognized the need to set up a mechanism to coordinate government and donor efforts on Private Sector Development and Trade projects. A separate committee was set up to coordinate donors and government activities on WTO accession.

In December 2004, the government prepared a detailed Action Plan (pdf - 312k) for the prioritized DTIS recommendations.

The DTIS findings were incorporated into Ethiopia's September 2006 PRSP in the chapter on trade and industrial development.

One Window II project was undertaken: institutional development for trade policy negotiation capacity-building.

Beyond the IF support, Ethiopia largely attracted trade-related support for WTO accession (EC, USAID, UNCTAD, UNDP, World Bank, and WTO). An accession roadmap (pdf - 73k) was prepared (October 2006), indicating the various activities, support from donors for these activities and the status of progress being made.

IF Focal Point	Mr. Demilew Mekonnen Representative WTO Affairs Department Ministry of Trade & Industry P.O. Box 704 Addis Ababa Tel.: +251 11 551 2425 Cell: +251 91 111 3314
IF Facilitator	Mr. Christoph Wagner Head of Economic, Social and Trade Section European Commission Delegation to Ethiopia Tel. +251 11 661 2511 Fax: +251 11 661 2877
World Bank Contact	Mr. Menbere Taye Tesfa PSD team The World Bank P. O. Box 5515 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tel: +251 11 517 6000
UNDP Contact	Mr. Abdoulie Sireh-Jallow Senior Economist UNDP Ethiopia Ms. Selamawit Alebachew Program Officer
Aide-Mémoire
Concept Paper	Concept paper (pdf - 86k)
Diagnostic Trade Integration Study	Volume 1 (pdf - 348k) Volume 2 (pdf - 516k)
Action Matrix	Action Matrix (December 2004) (pdf - 311k)
Date of Workshop	November 2003
Implementation Meeting	4 June 2004
Approved Window II Projects	00038865 (pdf - 48k) 00038866 (pdf - 38k) 00038867 (pdf - 47k)
Monitoring Matrix
EIF Correspondence	In-country preparations for the EIF (pdf - 35k)