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Ethiopia Water and Sanitation Profile
Summary
Ethiopia’s 81 million people have one of Africa’s lowest rates of access to water supply, sanitation, and hygiene despite abundant surface and groundwater resources. To reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets, the government will need to help ensure local water supply and sanitation (WSS) service providers continue to develop their capacity to manage operations. Ethiopia’s urban sub-sector has experienced the most benefit from efforts to reform for WSS sector, although the rural sub-sector remains lacking. USAID offers an overview of the WSS sector in Ethiopia. This profile also outlines the sector framework and identifies agencies and donors working in the WSS sector.
About the publisher
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. With headquarters in Washington, D.C., USAID's strength is its field offices around the world where it works in close partnership with private voluntary organizations, indigenous organizations, universities, American businesses, international agencies, other governments, and other U.S. government agencies. USAID work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives in economic growth, agriculture and trade, global health, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. www.usaid.gov
