📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UNDP - United Nations Development Programme - Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia Contract type: Pooled Funding-Basket Funds Project start: 01.09.2025 Funding amount: € 200.000,00 End: 30.06.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
Official Development Assistance in Ethiopia contributes, as a complement to other financing sources, to the effective implementation of the National Development Plan and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Expected results
1) Strengthened national capacity to agree through a participatory manner on and communicate national (and sub-national) development priorities through a streamlined/coherent planning framework;
2) Enhanced use and quality of development and financial data for Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and Development Partners' Group (DPG) decision-making, alignment of investments to national development priorities, effective coordination across the Humanitarian-Development-Peace continuum, and diversification of financial sources for development; and
3) Well managed, efficient, inclusive and strategically focused DPG structure and Secretariat.
Target group / Beneficiaries
Direct beneficiaries of the project are the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) and the Ministry of Finance (MoF) as well as of 20 line ministries and 12 regional and 2 city administrations, and the DPG Secretariat staff, in total an estimated 322 persons. ADA’s contribution, based on its share of the budget, therefore directly benefits approximately 56 people.
The indirect beneficiaries of the project are the people of Ethiopia, who benefit from a more effective implementation of the country’s development plans.
UNDP manages the pooled fund. Primary partners of UNDP are the MoF, the MoPD and the 36 bilateral and multilateral development partners which make up the DPG.
The project is implemented mostly at the federal level; increased involvement of regional government institutions is foreseen in the project document.
Activities
1. Support multi-stakeholder engagement in national planning processes (civil society, private sector, academia, regional governments).
2. Capacity building for integrated planning at the MoPD and line ministries, coordination mechanisms between federal and regional planning bodies.
3. Rollout of Digital Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation System to woreda level.
4. Operationalization of SDG Tracker and support for Voluntary National Reviews.
5. Integration of development and financial databases, including Official Development Assistance (ODA) and Aid Information Management System.
6. Implementation of the Ethiopian Sustainable Financing Strategy.
7. Support to project management in MoF and MoPD through staffing.
8. Support in the coordination of Annual High-Level Development Forum and High-Level Business Forum.
9. Coordination of Monthly Heads of Agencies and Executive Committee meetings.
10. Support to Joint & Technical Working Groups.
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