Sector Aid Programme - Ethiopia

Sector(s):	Education and Health
Title:	Sectoral Development Programme
Donor country / organization:	Ireland (Irish Aid)
Other donors / organizations involved:
Beneficiary countries / regions:	Ethiopia
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions:
Duration:	1998 - 2002 (first phase). In total, duration is to be 20 years.
Starting Date:	late 1998
Project / Program budget:	Ireland's Bilateral Aid Fund. (98/99 allocation IR£1,500,000)
Finance / Type of cooperation:	Grant

Objectives
To contribute to the development of comprehensive and integrated primary health care and primary education systems in Ethiopia.
Activities / contents
The Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) has emerged as an appropriate mode for aid, to ensure efficient and effective use of local and external resources. This approach requires that the government maintain control of the process, and that the implementation strategy is worked out in dialogue with all major stakeholders.
Irish Aid is involved in assisting the process of developing a sector wide approach to Health and Education in Mozambique, Zambia, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
Expected outcomes / impacts
Improvement in the health and educational standards of the poorest sectors of the Ethiopian population.
Features in line with the Agenda for Action
The Sector Wide Programmes are in line with the policies set out in "Challenges and Opportunities Abroad: White Paper on Foreign Policy" published by the Government of Ireland in 1996.

Bilateral Aid Division, Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs.

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