The World Bank is offering another $420 million to Ethiopia’s program that seeks to improve the decentralized delivery of basic services in the education, health, agriculture, water and sanitation, and rural road sectors. The money will be drawn from the International Development Association, the bank’s arm for the world’s poorest nations.
The additional World Bank financing will support the Ethiopian government’s anti-malaria efforts, as well as strengthen local transparency, accountability, and monitoring and evaluation. It will also finance block grants to the Woreda district.
Other donors to the program, which began in 2006, have committed an additional $131.7 million, with possible new contributions in the next two years.
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