Abbreviations
- ACLED
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project
- ACSI
Amhara Credit and Savings Institution
- ADLI
Agricultural Development-Led Industrialisation
- AGOA
African Growth and Opportunity Act
- AILAA
Agricultural Investment Land Administration Agency
- AISD
Agricultural Investment Support Directorate
- ANDM
Amhara National Democratic Movement
- ATA
Agricultural Transformation Agency
- CCI
Complementary Community Investments
- CSA
Central Statistical Agency
- CUD
Coalition for Unity and Democracy
- DBE
Development Bank of Ethiopia
- DECSI
Dedebit Credit and Savings Institution
- EFFORT
Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray
- EIZ
Eastern Industrial Zone
- ELF
Eritrean Liberation Front
- EPDM
Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement
- EPLF
Eritrean People’s Liberation Front
- EPRDF
Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front
- EPRP
Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party
- ESDA
Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency
- FDI
Foreign Direct Investment
- FDRE
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- GERD
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
- GDP
Gross Domestic Product
- GTP
Growth and Transformation Plan
- HABP
Household Asset Building Programme
- HRW
Human Rights Watch
- IFI
International Finance Institution
- IHDP
Integrated Housing Development Programme
- IMF
International Monetary Fund
- MEISON
All Ethiopia Socialist Movement
- MetEC
Metals and Engineering Corporation
- MFI
Microfinance Institution
- MIDROC
Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies
- MoARD
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
- MoFED
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development
- MoLSA
Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
- MSE
Micro and Small Enterprise
- NAEIP
National Agricultural Extension Intervention Program
- NGO
Non-Governmental Organisation
- NRM
National Resistance Movement
- OCSI
Oromiya Credit and Savings Institution. Also known by the Afaan Oromo acronym WALQO
- OFC
Oromo Federalist Congress
- OLF
Oromo Liberation Front
- ONLF
Ogaden National Liberation Front
- OPDO
Oromo People’s Democratic Organisation
- ORDA
Organisation for the Rehabilitation and Development of Amhara
- PASDEP
Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty
- PBS
Protection of Basic Services
- PSNP
Productive Safety Net Programme
- PVH
Phillips-Van Heusen
- REST
Relief Society of Tigray
- RPF
Rwandan Patriotic Front
- SEPDM
Southern Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement
- SNNPR
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region
- TGE
Transitional Government of Ethiopia
- TPLF
Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front
- TVET
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
- UMNO
United Malays National Organisation
- UPSNP
Urban Productive Safety Net Programme
- US
United States
- USAID
United States Agency for International Development
- USSR
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- WFP
World Food Programme