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Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission Spends Over 3.17 Billion Birr
The Reporter (Amharic) · 8 hours ago · Read the Full Story on The Reporter (Amharic)
AI SUMMARY
The Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission reported spending over 3.17 billion Birr out of its 3.7 billion Birr total budget and handed over its summarized agenda recommendations to the parliament.
- The Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission was allocated a total adjusted budget of over 3.72 billion Birr, including an initial budget of 3,110,221,673 Birr and an additional 594,220,455.90 Birr, for the 2022 to 2027 fiscal years.
- The commission spent over 3.17 billion Birr, representing 85.2 percent of its total budget.
- The commission handed over between 200 and 250 pages of summarized agenda recommendations gathered from the National Dialogue Conference to the House of Peoples' Representatives.
- The National Dialogue Conference took place over 38 days from July 15 to August 23, yielding 400 recommendations.
- Consultations involved over 200,000 people and generated approximately 2,000 agendas focusing on issues such as religion, peacebuilding, corruption, governance, and human rights.
- Agendas concerning federal institutions were presented to federal representatives, regional and city administration agendas were delivered to 11 regions and two city administrations, and Tigray region agendas were given to the federal government.
- Future priorities of the commission include creating implementation and monitoring systems for the recommendations, making them public, and digitizing process documents.
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