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Ethiopia


Priority country : Systems & Finance

Ethiopia joined SWA in 2010. The main instrument for the government for achieving the SDGs WASH targets is the One WASH National Programme (OWNP) . The main purpose of the programme is to contribute towards improving the health, well-being and economic growth of both rural and urban populations by increasing water supply and sanitation access and adoption of good hygiene practices in an equitable and sustainable manner. Through the OWNP, the WASH is addressed as integrated package (one plan, one budget and one report) between government , Development partners and the community. The First phase of the OWNP was concluded on June 2019 and the second phase (2019-2024) envisaged with five major components, Viz., Rural-WASH, Urban-WASH, Institutional-WASH, Climate Resilient - WASH and Capacity Develoment in WASH Sector, is on progress as of July 2019 aiming to address unserved population and improve service delivery efficiency to meet the SDGs. The Climate Resilient WASH (CR-WASH) service is aimed at acclerating access to sustinable water supply and sanitation services to people and livestock in arid and semi-arid parts of the country. Ethiopia has also officially launched an Open Defecation Free Campaign (2020-2024) which will increase access to basic sanitation facilities and help eliminate open defecation in the country at the end of 2024 on Nov. 2019. Integerated City-wide sanitation services provision and urban greenary projects are another category of grand projects on progress to promote urban sanitation.

Commitments by the government

Establish clear and concrete strategic milestones for the establishment of the regulatory agency.
Reviewing progress
Establish country-wide, coordinated, inclusive, well managed, standardized and monitored school and health facility WASH implementation package.
Reviewing progress
Improve the enabling environment for the private sector and build its capacity to provide high level technical water supply solutions.
Reviewing progress
Increase the water supply financing from the current financial status in order to achieve the set targets of GTP II and SDG requirements and standards. Also, diversify financing modalities (3ts – taxes, tariffs, transfers, blended financing, climate and humanitarian nexus funding).
50%
Rollout national strategies and campaign to eliminate open defecation in rural and urban to improve access to basic sanitation levels.
Reviewing progress
Upscale the implementation of the Climate-Resilient WASH and Water Safety Planning to each new water supply project and select old most vulnerable and top priority water supplies in rural and urban areas.
Reviewing progress
Mr. Abiy Girma
FDRE, Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity
Government
Seifu Kebede
Research and Learning

Documents

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Key documents Type
Ethiopia - Collaborative Behaviour Country Profile 2020
Regional Roadmap for Africa
South-South Learning on WASH in Schools, in the crisis response to COVID-19 & post-crisis sustainability
Speech of Anthony Lake
UNICEF Executive Director welcome remarks
Session 2 - Pakistan Experience
Session 2.1 - Bruce Gordon
Session 2 - Tom Slaymaker
Session 2.2 - Sanjay Wijesekera Vina
Session 3 - Dominick De Waal

Webinars

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Incentive based financing to end inequalities and accessing climate finance for sanitation and water

Incentive based financing to end inequalities and accessing climate finance for sanitation and water

SWA 2020 Finance Ministers’ Meeting Preparatory Webinar Series - Webinar 3: Incentive based financing to end inequalities and...
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Ensuring WASH service provision in times of COVID-19

Ensuring WASH service provision in times of COVID-19

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On May 21, SWA organized the first Ministerial Roundtable on “Ensuring provision of water services in urban areas during...
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SWA Ministerial Meeting 2016

SWA Ministerial Meeting 2016

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SWA 2019 Webinar - Outcomes of the 2019 SMM and Follow-up Actions (English #2)

SWA 2019 Webinar - Outcomes of the 2019 SMM and Follow-up Actions (English #2)

The webinar focused on the outcomes and follow-up actions for the Sector Ministers Meeting which was held in Costa Rica on 4...
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SWA 2019 Webinar Africa: Financing to eliminate inequalities

SWA 2019 Webinar Africa: Financing to eliminate inequalities

Finance is critical to achieving the SDGs. In fact half of the partner governments who prepared a country brief for the 2019...
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