Policies / Policies from 2002
Policies with publication year 2002.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
A proclamation to provide foreign nationals of Ethiopian origin with certain rights to be exercised in their country of origin.
Council of Ministers/Finance and Economic Development
"Unless exempted under Article 7 of this Proclamation or directives to be issued moving forward, Turnover Tax shall be payable on goods supplied and services rendered by persons not registered for Value Added Tax. The Turnover Tax is placed at 2% on Goods sold locally and Services rendered locally; 2% on Contractors, grain mills, tractors and combine-harvesters; and 10% on others".
Education
The education and training policy was prepared to ensure the populace understands the basic concept of the education and training policy, understand its premise, its rationale, and all its practical applications.
Agriculture
The Food Security Strategy (FSS) builds on the 1996 FSS that sought to understand the causes and effects of food insecurity in Ethiopia. The 2002 FSS subsequently aims to leverage the lessons learnt over the years to further address food insecurity issues. The overall objective is to ensure food security at household levels. It places priority on pastoral areas, environmental rehabilitation, the introduction of high-value crops, capacity building, and institutional strengthening.
Water Resources
"The Water Sector Development Program (WSDP) has been prepared by the Ministry of Water Resources. The WSDP seeks to contribute to major socio-economic targets such as enhancing the access of the population to safe drinking water, improving food security through extending irrigation, and increasing the national production of electricity by constructing dams. The program is consistent with the National Water Management Policy and the National Water Strategy. The planning horizon of the WSDP is 15 years, divided into three 5-year periods of the short-term (2002-2006), medium-term (2007-2011), and long-term (2012-2016) to suit the existing practice of 5-year development plans of Regional and Federal institutions".
Council of Ministers/Rural Development
The proclamation establishes the national agricultural input authority as an autonomous body of the federal government. The authority shall be accountable to the ministry of rural development. "The objective of the Authority is to ensure that the production, supply, distribution and marketing of agricultural inputs is undertaken efficiently and effectively, and capacity is built in the sector to benefit producers and the user community".
Council of Ministers/Urban Development and Construction
"This Proclamation shall apply to an urban land held by the permit system, or by the lease-hold system, or by other means prior thereto, as well as to an urban land permitted hereafter. Notwithstanding the provisions of Sub-Article (1) of this Article, this Proclamation shall also apply to; any urban land which has not been under leasehold system, as per the time and conditions to be set by the concerned Region or City Government; any town, which has not been under the lease-hold system, as per the time and conditions to be set by the concerned Region or City government".
Council of Ministers/Water, Energy and Irrigation
The Rural Energy Development and Promotion Centre is established as an autonomous federal government organ accountable to the ministry of rural development. The centre is charged with ensuring the ease of developing and promoting rural energy resources and technologies. The proclamation highlights the powers and duties of the centre, organization structure, source of budget, and other miscellaneous provisions.
Council of Ministers/Environmental Protection Authority
The Authority is established as an autonomous federal government public institution, accountable to the office of the prime minister, and with powers and duties spelt out in this proclamation. The objective of the Authority is to "formulate policies, strategies, laws and standards, which foster social and economic development in a manner that enhance the welfare of humans and the safety of the environment sustainable, and to spearhead in ensuring the effectiveness of the process of their implementation".
Council of Ministers/Rural Development
The 274th proclamation of 2002 establishes the cooperatives commission as an autonomous federal government organ. The commission shall be accountable to the ministry of rural development. "The objective of the Commission is to enable rural and urban working people to solve the economic and social problems they face by themselves and become self-reliant by being organized in cooperatives different in type and standard depending on the local resources".
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