Addis Ababa
City gov’t earmarks 150 mln. birr for industrial
sites development
Some 150 million birr has
been allotted to the development of industrial sites this budget year,
Land Development Agency of the City Administration said.
Land Development study
and Preparation Department head with the Agency, Kassa Hailu, said the
City Government has plans to develop three industrial sites in the
metropolis during the reported period.
He told Abiyotawi
Democracy, a magazine of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary
Democratic Front (EPRDF), that the Mekanisa-Lebu, Kaliti, and
Kality-Mekanisa. Industrial sites due to be refurbished with the
necessary infrastructure cover an area of over 169 hectares of land.
Authority to launch
economic establishments enumerations
The Central Statistical
Authority announces plan to carryout the enumeration of economic
establishments throughout the country.
Authority Deputy General
Manager Samiya Zekeria said the enumeration, which would be carried
out beginning Mrach 1, 2004 would be a source of information as to the
distribution of the establishments in each state.
She made announcement
while opening a four-day relevant Training of trainers here Monday at
the hall of the black Lion Senior Secondary School.
She said the enumeration
would enable to gather information necessary to design policies and
strategies while acquainting both local and foreign invertors with
investment potential sin he country.
It would also enable to
know the types and numbers of economic establishments including their
contribution to employment, she said.
The enumeration would
take place in all urban centers in the country, according to the
deputy general manager.
Samiya said relevant
training would be offered to about 2,000 enumerators who will be
deployed for the mission.
About 120 professionals
drawn from the branch offices of the authority are attending the
training.
Project extends
over 3.4 mln. birr loan to low-income women
The Women Development
Project of the Ethiopian Women Development Fund (EWDF) said it had
granted over 3.4 million birr to low-income women in loans during the
last one year.
Project Coordinator,
Tadelech Debele said the project granted the stated sum on loans to
2,840 beneficiaries living in nine states of the nation.
The coordinator made the
statement Saturday at the closing of a two-day annual performance
evolution meeting of the project held in Awassa town, Southern
Nations, Nationalities and Peoples State (SNNPS).
Japan, China
provide over 667mln. for project implementation
The Ministry of Finance
and Economic Development (MoFED) says Japan and China last year
provided an over 667 million birr assistance for the implementation of
various ongoing projects in Ethiopia.
The ministry announced
that 552 million birr obtained form the government of Japan was being
utilized in implementation of human resource and infrastructure
development projects.
It said the country has
also obtained loans and grants from the African Development bank,
donors and creditors in the reported period.
According to the
ministry, 861 million birr was obtained in loan from the African
Development Fund (ADF) and the International Development Association (IFAD)
as well as Nordic Development Fund.
The fund was being used
in the implementation of the Second Road Sector Development Programme
(RSDP II), the rural finance support programme, the flood protection
project at the Awash River as well as in the development of
pastoralist communities and the rehabilitation of people affected by
drought, it added.
WFO to reduce food
rations to refugees in Ethiopia.
The United Nations World
Food Programme (WFP) announced that it has been forced to reduce the
amount of food distributed to refugees in Ethiopia due to lack of
funding. The 126,000 refugees will only receive 70 percent of the food
considered adequate for a healthy diet.
To avoid further cuts in
food rations and continue feeding the refugees up to the end of
December 2004, WFP urgently requires US$10 million. So far it has
received only 40 percent of the funds required and WFP will run
out of food in May if further donations are not forthcoming soon.
"The imminent cut in
food rations will put at risk the health and lives of refugees,
especially women and children," said Georgia Shaver, WFP Country
Director in Ethiopia. "We will be only able to provide 1,500
kilocalories per person per day, which is well below the minimum
2,100 kilocalories required to carry out a healthy and active life."
Dire Dawa
Dire Dawa Hospital receives ophthalmic surgery
equipment
The ophthalmology ward of
the Dire Dawa Dil chora Hospital received ophthalmic surgery equipment
worth over 250,000 birr in donation from two individuals, the Hospital
Medical Director said.
Dr. Abnet Taye said that
Hadji Mohammed Abdulahi Oxedi and an American philanthropist called
Robert F. donated the medical equipment.
The ward, which used to
provide treatment to up to 15 patients weekly, previously because of
lack of equipment would now be would now be able to provide services
to up to 50 patients, he said.
Tigray
Entrepreneurs
construct development projects
Various development
projects constructed by 37 entrepreneurs with an aggregate capital of
over 14 million birr in Maichew town of Southern Zone of Tigray State
have gone operational, the town council said.
General Manager of the
town council, Kiros Negussie told WIC that the development projects
constructed on over 24,000 square meters of land leased out to
entrepreneurs include hotels, garages, a kindergarten, animal
husbandry and poultry and a college.
He said the development
projects have created employment opportunities for over 300 people in
the town.
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Tuesday
February 24' 2004
