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Updates on the MDGs Needs Assessment Process in Ethiopia. By Getachew Adem Head, Development Planning and Research Department (DPRD) & National Coordinator for the PRSP and MDGs, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia March 2, 2006
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Updates on the MDGs Needs Assessment Process in Ethiopia By Getachew Adem Head, Development Planning and Research Department (DPRD) & National Coordinator for the PRSP and MDGs, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia March 2, 2006 Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Outline of the Presentation • Background; • Study to Localize the MDGs; • The MDGs Needs Assessment Study; • Scope of the MDGs Needs Assessment Strudy; • The MDGs Needs Assessment Synthesis Study; • The Formulation of the PASDEP; • Where are We Now?
Background • Formulation of Ethiopia’s First PRSP entitled SDPRP; • SDPRP anchored in Existing Government Policies Strategies and Programs; • Preceded by I-PRSP issued in November 2000; • Issued in August 2002; • Ethiopia reached Decision Point in September 2001; • Ethiopia Reached Completion Point in March 2004;
Study to Localize the MDGs • Linkages between the PRSPs and MDGs: Vehicle towards reaching the MDGs; • Linkages between policies,strategies, and programs; • Adapting the Indicator Systems; • Indicative Budgets based on ICOR; • Refocus the Organizational Structure to facilitate the MDGs Process(Coordination between line ministries);
The MDGs Needs Assessment Study • Preparation to launch the Study Started from January 2004; • The Study officially launched in July 2004; • Technical Backstopping to line ministries through support from UNCT, DAG, UNDP, UNICEF, WHO, World Bank; • Sect oral Needs Assessment Study Commenced in September 2004; • Methodological Workshop conducted in the presence of all stakeholders including the World Bank and IMF; • The Draft Study completed in October 2004; • Workshop on the Draft MDGs Needs Assessment Conducted from November 29 bto December 1 2004;
Scope of the MDGs Needs Assessment Study • Social Sectors (Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Water supply and Sanitation); • Growth Enhancing Sectors (Agriculture and Rural Development, Roads, Urban Development, Power, Telecom, Small and Medium scale Irrigation); • Cross-cutting Issues (Gender and Development, Population and Development;
The MDGs Needs Assessment Synthesis Study • Brings all the Sect oral pieces together in to a consistent Macroeconomic Framework; • Analyze the Financing Strategy based on the Sect oral Needs Assessment studies; • Analyze the Implications of Implementing the Ethiopian ten year MDGs Investment Plan; • Link Ethiopia’s Second Generation PRSP (Ethiopia: A Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP)), the first Fiver phase of the MDGs Plan to the MDGs Investment Plan;
The Formulation of the PASDEP • The PASDEP builds on the four SDPRP Pillars: ADLI, Decentralization and Empowerment, Capacity Building, Justice and Civil Service Reform; • Linked to the MDGs Plan with Front loaded infrastructure investment; • The PASDEP now considered as a National Development Plan; • Poverty Reduction and its ultimate eradication seen as an integral part of the Five Year Development Plan (2005/06-2009/10)
Where are We Now? • The MDGs Investment Plan Finalized and Issued; • The PASDEP has been discussed by the Council of ministers and endorsed in its broad terms but to be further refined based on feed backs from non-state actors; • The PASDEP is being augmented and refined and is in its final stage and will be approved by the Parliament with in the coming month;
