Short-Term Expert Pools Tax Customs Expertise Enterprise Development Business Environment Resilience Äthiopien

Short-Term Expert Pools for Tax & Customs Expertise - 1. Enterprise Development: The project is supporting larger, growth-oriented companies and innovative start-ups by helping them to optimise processes, enhance the quality of their products or services, and improve their access to markets and finance. This advances economic transformation across the country. 2. Business environment: The project is improving the regulatory environment within the tax and customs administrations, as well as at the National Bank of Ethiopia. This simplifies reforms and procedures and helps to create a business-friendly environment. 3. Strengthening resilience: The project is supporting, especially women-led micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in (post-)conflict regions by providing coaching and training, and by improving their creditworthiness. In doing so, it stabilises the business foundations of these companies, enhances their resilience and secures jobs. The lead executing agency for the project is Ethiopian Ministry of Industry (MoI). Other key partners include the Ethiopian Ministry of Revenue (MoR), Ethiopian Ministry of Finance (MoF), Accounting and Auditing Board of Ethiopia (AABE), Ethiopian Customs Commission (ECC), National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE). In addition to state institutions, the project collaborates with private sector stakeholders and subnational governments. The ultimate beneficiaries of the project are the businesses and citizens of Ethiopia who will benefit from a more effective, efficient, transparent, accountable, and business-friendly taxation and customs environment.