By Shegaw Yemataw
A new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Ethiopia Program is designed to support the most vulnerable people through expanding access to health, education, child protection, climate resilient, WASH and social protection services, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Finance.
During a validation meeting jointly organized Tuesday by the Ministry of Finance and UNICEF, Deputy Representative of UNICEF, Mariko Kagoshima, unveiled the new country program document to the high-level federal and regional government officials.
Addressing the gathering, Ethiopian State Minister for Finance, Semereta Sewasew, indicated that the Country Program is designed to cement Ethiopia’s cooperation with UNICEF on the most prioritized thematic areas.
A statement by the ministry also indicated that the Country Program, which is expected to be endorsed by the Executive Board of the UN agency in New York in February 2025, embraces mainly the key intervention areas and resource frameworks for the implementation period from 2025 to 2030 in federal and all regional governments with pledges of 808.5 million USD total resources.