Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
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Balancing water demands and increasing climate resilience:establishing a baseline water risk assessment model in Ethiopia
Water is essential to sustainable economic growth and climate change adaptation. Ethiopia’s growth and development are vulnerable to water security risks. Despite being known as the “water tower of Africa,”
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Effects of COVID-19 on regional and gender equality in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from Nigeria and Ethiopia
The labor structure in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by a high share of informal employment in the rural agricultural sector. The impact of COVID-19 on female employment may not appear to be large
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United Nations framework classification for geothermal energy: pilot applications in the Caribbean, Ethiopia and Indonesia
The lack of global standards, guidelines and codes for geothermal energy project increases the uncertainty with the compatibility and risks associated with geothermal energy development. The joint report
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Inclusive climate-resilient transport in Africa: assessment of the needs of transport stakeholders including disadvantaged groups
This report presents a summary of an assessment undertaken to understand the awareness that transport planners and decision-makers have of catering for the needs of disadvantaged groups. This includes
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Africa’s manufacturing puzzle: Evidence from Tanzanian and Ethiopian firms
Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors
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Effective food systems innovations: An inventory of evidence from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Viet Nam, and other low-and middle-income countries
To address malnutrition in low- and middle income countries (LMICs), more evidence is needed about the potential of food system innovations to help guide the transformation towards healthier, more sustainable,
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Towards the development of the local content policy framework for Ethiopia’s petroleum sector
This study had two objectives: to develop a framework which will guide the design and implementation of a petroleum sector local content policy approach in Ethiopia and to conduct a high-level capacity
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Towards the development of the local content policy framework for Ethiopia’s mining sector
The main objective of the study was to develop a framework for designing and implementing local content policies in Ethiopia driven by the mining sector. The Ethiopian government’s vision is to transform
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Starving Tigray: how armed conflict and mass atrocities have destroyed an Ethiopian region’s economy and food system and are threatening famine
This special report from the World Peace Foundation documents how Ethiopian and Eritrean belligerents in the war in Tigray have comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food system. It provide
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Urban climate risks and the role of social protection
This brief gives an overview of different country case studies where social protection (SP) systems have been used to address risks arising from climate-related hazards in urban spaces. It also explores