Investment Policy Review Ethiopia - Unctad

Report on the Implementation of the Investment Policy Review Ethiopia
Table III. Summary of implementation achievements
Agriculture Sector
Sector/area IPR recommendation Result Comment
Agriculture Refocus agriculture
R&D in order to make
it more demand-driven
and client-oriented
Agriculture ESTC’s role should
shift from the role of
traditional “science
counsellor” and direct
research funding to an
institutional means of
encouraging
innovation and
providing policy advice
to higher levels of
Government
Agriculture Greater integration
across the Ethiopian
National Agriculture
Research System
Agriculture Within higher
education change
patterns of funding to
give more control to
scientists and
department heads
with budgets managed
at a lower hierarchical
level
Agriculture Human resource
measures should
focus more on
“capacity-building”
rather than “training”
in the traditional
sense.
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Budget allocation for
projects is driven by
priority sectors and
determined at the
ministerial level.
However, the EIAR is
actively moving towards
demand-driven projects
which take into account
farmers’ needs.
ESTC became the
Ministry of Science and
Technology,
coordinating and
guiding Government
technology and
research policy.
It is the mandate of the
EIAR to do so for
national projects but not
regional projects.
Funding for higher
education R&D is not
handled separately from
other research. The
EIAR determines and
distributes funding
based on the priority
sectors which received
funding and client
needs.
There are many
projects which focus on
non-traditional training
such as leadership
skills.