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Around the world Ethiopia Sustainable Development Goals Our focus more Press Release UNDP Enhances Support for Ethiopia’s Reform Agenda The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will enhance its support around democratic governance and inclusive growth in Ethiopia to meet the country’s accelerated reform agenda and deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. Read more News Rethinking Development - Ethiopia Accelerator Lab Ethiopia launched the UNDP Accelerator Lab on Tuesday 10th December in the presence of young entrepreneurs and innovators, State Minister for Innovation and Technology Mr. Sisay Tola and development partners. Read more News UNDP helps to change the conventional practice of dairy agribusinesses in Ethiopia UNDP is helping to unravel the bottlenecks in Ethiopia’s dairy agribusiness. In January 2020 UNDP handed to the Ministry of Agriculture four cold chain trucks, and six milk chillers and lacto-scan machines to help solve the problem of milk spoilage during transportation, facilitate storage of fresh milk and test the quality of milk before processing. Read more News University students take on youth employment at bootcamp University students drawn from across Ethiopia came together for an interactive bootcamp on to co-create solutions for youth unemployment organized in Addis Abeba by UNDP and Iceaddis, an innovation hub and tech incubator. Read more News Denmark on board to support Ethiopia’s elections Denmark is releasing 10 million Danish Kroner (equivalent to US$1.5 million) to support a multi-partner election support project for Ethiopia. The agreement was signed by Ambassador Karin Poulsen of Denmark and UNDP Ethiopia Resident Representative Turhan Saleh on Friday 13th December 2019. Read more News Ethiopia Launch - Human Development Report 2019 The 2019 Human Development Report (HDR), published with a theme ‘Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: inequalities in human development in the 21st century,’ argues that inequality is not beyond solutions. Read more UNDP ANNUAL REPORT 2018 2018 WAS A REMARKABLE YEAR FOR UNDP. It was our first full year of implementing a new Strategic Plan—a plan built to help countries deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals. At a time of change for the United Nations, we worked with our partners to help people get on their feet and stay there—meeting short-term needs while laying the foundations for a hopeful, confident future. In the next pages you will see some of the many results we achieved in 2018. They reinforce that UNDP is uniquely designed to help solve complex development problems in a courageous, integrated, and innovative way. Today, UNDP’s mission has never been as clear: we are here to help 170 countries and territories to reach their development priorities so that no one on this planet is left behind. Read the full report UNDP’s Ethiopia and China offices explore collaboration to promote South-South Cooperation UNDP’s Ethiopia and China explore collaborations to promote South-South and Trilateral Cooperation. Ethiopia’s second national Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP 2015-2020) predicts that employment levels in large and medium enterprises will rise from 380,000 to 757,600 by 2019/20, accounting for an average annual growth of 15%. The industrial sector share of the country’s GDP is growing over the years and has reached 16.7% in 2015/16, while the same period the manufacturing sector and specifically large and medium scale manufacturing sector accounted for 5.4% and 4.4% of GDP respectively. Ethiopia - Human Development Report Between 2000 and 2017, Ethiopia’s HDI value increased from 0.283 to 0.463, an increase of 63.5 percent. Ethiopia’s HDI value for 2017 is 0.463— which put the country in the low human development category— positioning it at 173 out of 189 countries and territories. Download data for Ethiopia Download full HDR 2018 What we do UNDP has operated in Ethiopia since 1981. Since then, UNDP has focused on providing Ethiopia with strategic support to build national capacity and enhance the country’s development results in the areas of poverty reduction and economic growth, democratic governance as well as climate resilient development. To browse through all our projects visit UNDP's open data platform Take action . UNDP giving Join our team and fight poverty Join our team and fight poverty. When you fundraise for UNDP, you make a difference today and inspire better tomorrows. Let’s do this! Donate now Engage with us Join our social media family When we began our work five decades ago, one in three people worldwide lived in poverty. Now? Just one in eight. Let’s finish the job. Shop UNDP Thing globally, shop virtually Think globally, shop virtually. Wear your support on your sleeve with a new t-shirt, grocery bag or other UNDP-themed gear. Shop now About Ethiopia Learn more 95.5 million Population 23.5% Poverty rate USD 883 GNI per capita 0.463 Human Dev. 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