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 Ethiopian Program
Ethiopian Public Policy Form

In December 2002 IAG lunched the public policy forum as an important step towards the realization of its vision of an Ethiopia society based upon category governance involving all stakeholders. The public forum aims to provide a platform for building a culture of dialogue and exchange of views between government and the public and among all sectors of Ethiopian society

Core Activities

The inaugural forum, which was held on 15 December 2003,was opened by the Ethiopian Prime Minster, and involved panelists drawn from different sectors including the media business associations civil society organizations women and youth associations The forum was unprecedented in terms of ringing face to face the senior government policy makers, represented by the prime Minster, with active members of the public and allowing them to voice the concerns of the different stakeholders they represented.

The public policy forum was highly instrumental in opening up democratic space during the 2005 national and regional elections. Through the intermarry election debates and stakeholders organized by the forum, the culture of open debate provided the public with alternative political programs, policy options and personalities. The forums were assessed by newspapers as crucial factors in motivating public interests in the may2005 election. This was demonstrated by the impressively large turnout of registered voters.90% of registered voters have showed up at the polls on May 15 all over the country.

The debates were held on wide range of issues of public interstice including federalism and democratic governance, land policy, urban development, social services, among others.

The following documentation currently available of under preparation:

  • Video and sound recording of all the stakeholders’ conference and the party debates
  • Issue papers to inform all the conferences and debates English and Amharic report of all the conferences and the debates

Currently, preparations are being made to organize public forums on the governance implications of HIV/AIDS in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the National HIV/AIDS prevention and control secretariat. the forums in the pipeline include forum on Gender and governance and Forum on Youth and Governance both due to held shortly.