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, 2006Dar 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;

Thank You