The government of Ethiopia has prepared an elaborate and comprehensive PRSP that contains
description of poverty profile, outline overall macroeconomic as well as key sectoral
development objectives and strategies, a three-year macroeconomic fiscal framework and
financing plan, and a framework for monitoring and evaluation of its implementation. This report
assesses Ethiopia’s PRSP from five inter-related perspectives: the processes, its content, public
finance aspects, capacity building issues, and donor’s involvement.
The PRSP preparation process involved a two-phase exercise: preparation of I-PRSP during
the first phase followed by the development of a full PRSP. The full PRSP preparation process
has benefited a lot from comments made by various quarters including the donor community on
the I-PRSP, as well as from best practices and experiences of other African countries, and
therefore revealed significant improvement over the I-PRSP. Broad and meaningful
participation of various stakeholders did take place during the consultation processes at various
administrative levels including the woreda (district), regional, and federal levels. A parallel
consultation process that was initiated and organized by various NGOs and civic associations
greatly contributed towards ensuring wider ownership as well as enriching the content of the
final PRSP.