Ethiopia has achieved substantialprogress in economic, social, and human development over thepast decade. The country partnership framework (CPF) drawson the findings of the World Bank Group (WBG’s) 2016systematic country diagnostic (SCD) for Ethiopia, whichidentified eight binding constraints to ending extremepoverty and boosting shared prosperity, along with twooverarching challenges: the need for a sustainable financingmodel for growth, and inadequate feedback mechanisms tofacilitate citizen engagement and government account-ability. This CPF succeeds the Ethiopia FY13-FY16 countrypartnership strategy (CPS), which was discussed at the Boardon August 29, 2012. It also reflects lessons learned andresulting suggestions from the CPS completion and learningreview (CLR), which is presented in this report. Following adecade of strong economic growth in Ethiopia, the CPFaddresses the challenges of forging a growth path that ismore broadly inclusive and sustainable. The CPF program willfocus on: (i) promoting structural and economictransformation through increased productivity; (ii) buildingresilience and inclusiveness (including gender equality);and (iii) supporting institutional accountability andconfronting corruption. This CPF adopts a spatial lensthrough which this five-year program will seek to deliverbold results and to tackle two of the greatest spatialchallenges to Ethiopia’s quest to achieve lowermiddle-income status by 2025.
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