Ethiopia 2017 EITI Annual Progress Report

Recognizing the importance of improving transparency and accountability in the extractive sector, advantage of working together with multi-stakeholder groups & the outcome of their engagement in the overall operation of EITI, the Government has showed its commitment to be open and facilitate fertile environment and to accommodate interested actors and then resumed applying EITI since 2009 and strongly continued extending the objective of the initiative across the country following the designation of the country as a candidate in March 2014.Since then, a lot of endeavors has been made under the close supervision and follow up of the Multi-Stakeholders-Board (MSB) including internal and external situational analysis as annexed to this report.