Dev’t Partners Pledge 630 mln USD to Ethiopia’s Climate Induced Humanitarian Assistance

Addis Ababa, April 18/2024 (ENA)Global development partners pledged 630 million USD to support the humanitarian assistance induced by climate change in Ethiopia, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Nebiyu Tedla said.

In his biweekly briefing today, Spokesperson Nebiyu said that Ethiopia has achieved numerous diplomatic gains in the last 6 years of reform.

The high-level pledging conference in Geneva co-sponsored by Ethiopia, Britain and the United Nations received nearly about 630 million USD in pledges to provide humanitarian assistance for Ethiopians suffering from the ill effects of climate change, it was indicated. 

Ethiopia is gaining encouraging results towards food security; particularly with the dry season wheat, he stated, and added that it is journey to ensure self-reliance.

In addition to that, Ethiopia made efforts to engage the diaspora in every national developmental agenda, Nebiyu said, and emphasized that Ethiopia has gained 20 billion USD through remittance over the last 5 years.

Moreover, the diaspora has contributed about 55 million USD to accelerate the completion of the national flagship project Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the Spokesperson elaborated.