How I Turned Out To Be A Ethiopia Specialist

Water Supply and Sewerage Development Program (WSSDP): The WSSDP consists of urban
water supply, rural water supply, livestock water supply, and urban sewerage projects. Work activities
are chiefly study and design, construction, rehabilitation and expansion, and operation and
maintenance. WSSDP targets for water supply in urban and rural areas over different planning
horizons are presented in table 1.
Irrigation Development Program (IDP): IDP targets are shown in table 2. In the short-term (2002–
2006), IDP will emphasize the development of small-scale irrigation. Capacity-building in the study,
design, and implementation of irrigation projects will have next highest priority. Wherever possible,
priority shall also be given to the completion of on-going and suspended large-scale irrigation
projects. Increasing emphasis will be given to the development of large and medium-scale irrigation
schemes in the medium- to long-term.
Hydropower Development Program (HDP): The HDP has been designed to meet local electricity
demand in the national grid or “Interconnected System” (ICS), export demand, and small-scale
hydropower development targets for rural areas. The basis for setting targets for electric supply is the
June 2000 forecast for electricity demand by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo).
Planning assumptions included average GDP growth rate of 6.6 per cent per year. Because of delivery
system losses, the corresponding generation requirement was estimated to be about 20 per cent greater
than the consumer demand shown here. The projected electricity demand is presented in table 3.
Development of potential export markets is the subject of on-going discussions with the neighboring
countries of Sudan and Djibouti.
Water Resources Development Program (WRDP): The chief concerns in the water resources subsector are to lay the solid foundations for successful program implementation in the other sub-sectors,
especially irrigation and hydropower, with the collection and analysis of various kinds of data and
information that are needed. In this regard, main targets set for this program include the establishment
of 349 new hydrology stations and 745 new meteorology stations. Transformation of current data
transmission and analysis practices to modern and efficient computerized methods was also planned.
To solve problems associated with floods, particularly along the Awash River course, projects to
mitigate those problems were included. Regarding resource assessment, the main targets are to
complete the remaining studies for the master plans for integrated development of river basins,
integrate at national level the master-plan studies already conducted, and complete the national
groundwater assessment study (currently planned to be undertaken by Ethiopian Geological Survey).