| Total cost $164,836
Partners
Ministry of Works and Urban Development
Addis Ababa City authorities
Ethiopian Civil Service College
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme
UN-Habitat
Background and objectives
In late 1997, the Ministry of Works and
Urban Development submitted a proposal for identification of sustainable
urban development intervention areas and preparation of implementation
strategy to the Ministry of Economic Development and Cooperation for approval,
funded by UNDP. This document was prepared by the Ministry of Works
and Urban Development with the technical support of UN-Habitat.
The project was approved and signed in February 1999. The objective
of this project is to assist the Government to develop a well-coordinated
urban development strategy and operational guidelines for municipalities,
focusing on urban management, housing development, integrated infrastructure
development, municipal finance management and upgrading of institutional
capacity. The programme has two main components: capacity-building
of local authorities in selected regions and poverty reduction in Addis
Ababa.
Activities
The first phase of the programme started
in July 1999 to prepare a clear action plan for a long-term programme of
support to improve the planning and managing of urban development in Ethiopia.
An institutional capacity-building process has been started to enable municipal
authorities and their partners to develop participatory policies and strategies.
With the participation of UN-Habitat senior trainers, a training-of-trainers
course and two pilot workshops were held in Addis Ababa in October 1999.
The training course focused on the design of participatory, interactive
and client-centred training programmes, based on UN-Habitat training
manuals. UN-Habitat produced draft guidelines for preparation
of the poverty profile study that takes into account the Ethiopian context.
The Addis Ababa team finished the poverty profile for the city.
As a second stage of the strategy of capacity-building,
the trainees who participated in the course will train other officials
in the regions. Two subregional courses and workshops were conducted
in November and December 2000. An overall assessment of institutional
capacity at the national, regional and local levels is being conducted
by the Ethiopian Civil Service College in order to identify major issues
and prepare another programme. Based on the capacity-building need
assessment findings and the works of the regions, a national urban development
strategy and action plans will be formulated at the end of 2000.
Results
Currently, an overall assessment of institutional
capacity both at national, regional and local level is conducted with the
aim to identify major issues and prepare Programme document for further
implementation. The Addis Ababa Working team finished in July 2000
the Poverty Profile of Addis Ababa. This document constitutes the
basis for the city consultation, which brings together all interested parties
from central and local governments, the private sector, civil society,
community organizations and the donor community who shall, on the basis
of the information contained in the profile, agree on an action plan for
the reduction of poverty and improved management of the city.
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