EIIPD WORK PLAN                    

  2003 - 2007(EFY  1995 - 1999)

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Programmes

Research And Networking

Awareness Generation

Partnership And Consensus Building

Major  Goals And Expected Outcomes  of the  Capacity Building Programme

Budgetary Inputs

Budget Estimate

1.0. Background

EIIPD intends to continue the programmes which it has undertaken on an enhanced scale. This is in response to the demand for the continuation of the on-going programmes as well as new ones, designed in tandem with the Civil Service Reform activities of the Government.  

The overall objectives are summarized below:  

1. Capacity building and strengthening the knowledge-base for action.

2. Producing research output that contributes to enhancing capacity building.  

3. Promoting partnerships by performing a bridging role between the public sector and other stakeholders in society .

4. Awareness generation and consensus building through seminars, conferences, lectures and information dissemination. This is buttressed by networking with national and international institutions as well as performing think-tank functions.

5. In all the above, to include gender issues and ICT as cross-cutting issues of critical importance to human development.

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2.0 Programmes

In the pursuit of the above goals, the EIIPD plans to conduct two capacity building Programmes per year in the form of applied training with a duration of 32 weeks.

The annual intake is projected to be 80 participants and the total over the five- year period will be about 400. 

The objective in this regard relates to the fact that Ethiopia has accorded top priority to capacity building at different levels of its poverty reduction endeavors including building partnership with the donor community.

Due emphasis will be placed on producing skills that make an impact. The courses will be conducted under the rubric of capacity building in international relations and the major themes to be covered will be: Diplomatic communications, Diplomacy, International Law and Conflict Management, Negotiation Techniques; ITC in International Economic and Trade Relations; Mobilization of External Resources, Foreign Direct Investment for Poverty Reduction Programmes; multi-disciplinary themes dealing with key aspects of development including Policy Reforms and Performance, the Impact of HIV/AIDS, Gender legislation and its impact, the Environment and Resources Management, and other themes identified by client institutions on the basis of their needs.

The goal of capacity building Programmes will also be pursued through Seminars and Workshops. This is to contribute to national efforts in addressing constraints associated with the existing gaps in public management, lack of knowledge for tapping opportunities for economic growth, inefficiency in the public sector, etc.  The emphasis  

will be on deepening awareness of vital issues in the poverty reduction endeavors, including the role of ICT in promoting peace and development.   

The plan is to conduct 20 seminars and/or workshops over the five-year period, each with a duration of 10 days and an intake of 50-60 participants. About 12 of the seminars and/or workshops will be devoted to the regional administrations with themes specially tailored to their needs.  These programs will benefit at least 1500 persons.  

Beneficiaries will be high-and middle-level functionaries in the public sector and relevant organizations of the private sector as well as civil society.  

The themes of the seminars and workshops will be based on identification, request, needs, relevance and topicality.  

These will include:

1. project management,

2.  economic development,

3. regional peace and security,

4. gender and development,

5. poverty reduction initiatives,

6.   early warning and conflict prevention and themes that are relevant to empowerment of communities and local administrations, their capacity to manage the newly-acquired powers and responsibilities.

2.1  Foreign Service Training  

Objective:  To give orientation to:  

1. new recruits of the diplomatic service

2. diplomats assigned to Ethiopian  diplomatic missions so as to familiarize them with latest issues of focus.

Content of Training: They will be exposed to the latest skills in international diplomacy, including the changing role of foreign policy, electronic diplomacy, trade diplomacy and methods of enhancing bilateral and multilateral relations. The courses will also include diplomatic communication and diplomatic norms and practice, Ethiopia's reform policies and their performance in the political and socio-economic development fields.

Frequency and Scope depend on frequency and scope of recruitment of new staff and decision on diplomatic assignments by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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3.0. Research And Networking

Research and Networking is another function of the Institute. Its broad goals are to:  

1. narrow the knowledge-gap on timely topical and critical issues pertaining to peace, democracy and development;

2. produce coherent reports with analyses and recommendations on policy options for consideration by decision-makers;

3. provide empirical data of value for decision-making;

4. develop and propose practical and innovative solutions to problems as they arise;

5. provide data and analyses which can be ploughed into the training and other capacity building programmes; and

6. make use of ICT instruments as its research tools.

Other areas of the research and networking functions are enhancing existing institutional linkages and creating new ones.  

This will strengthen relationships with centers of excellence in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America via exchange of information and expertise. This is also expected to lead to developing joint projects with institutions that have expressed interest.

The EIIPD has opened discussions on executing collaborative programmes with a number of foreign institutions. They include:

1. Raul Wallenberg Institute (Sweden),

2. the South African Institute of African Studies;

3. African Center on Conflict Studies (Kenya);

4. US Institute of Peace;

5. Institute of Multi- Track Diplomacy (Washington),

6. UNESCO and the Regional EconomicDevelopment Services -East Africa.

Themes so far identified include: a series of lectures on human rights, challenges of diplomacy in the 21st Century, ecological causes of conflict, the working of the Ethiopian federal system, civil society sponsored forum on Ethio-Eritrean dialogue, forums to promote the

culture of peace, and conflict prevention programmes in favour of pastoralists.  

Surveys: Surveys will be conducted on the functioning of devolution of administrative powers at randomly selected communities or Weredas. 

In-House Capacity Building: An important programme in this is the recruitment of senior research staff or graduates who would be trained on the job plus through fellowships at internationally known centers of excellence.  This would create a cadre of highly qualified staff of 20-30 to build a core leadership in research programme design, implementation and consultancy services.

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4.0. Awareness Generation

Objectives: The awareness generation programme of the EIIPD aims to:  

1. promote the image of the country, thereby attract external assistance and investment and foster partnership as inputs to poverty alleviation efforts of the country;

2. highlight issues of relevance to development, including gender, HIV/AIDS, ITC, regional security, sustainable peace and democratic governance;  

3. review important policy issues as well as strategies, their performance and impact, with the view to articulating recommendations on options to be considered.  

4. contribute to "Shared Vision Programs" of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) through networking with its relevant centers.

Mechanisms  

Among the ways and means by which the EIIPD intends to pursue the above objectives are:

1.  Information dissemination via networking with domestic and international media outlets.

2.  Publishing and distribution of research output in the "Occasional Papers" series and other publications;

3.  Public lectures and conferences on topical issues which are covered in the media; the proceedings of conferences are also printed in special publications and distributed widely.

4.  Continuing its research work on the Nile and consulting with the Ethiopian focal point on the programmes launched in the framework of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI).

5. Participation in conferences, seminars and other fora within the country and at foreign institutions which regularly invite the EIIPD.

Exchange of publications with similar institutions worldwide with which the EIIPD has links.

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5.0  Partnership And Consensus Building

Objective: Participatory democracy requires that all points of view must be heard with the view to achieving consensus among all stakeholders in the development agenda. The EIIPD has attempted and intends to continue performing a bridging role between the public sector and private sector as well as civil society and other stakeholders, with attention to gender, HIV/AIDS as cross-cutting issues. 

Activities:  Conferences, discussion forums and public service programmes will be organized to ventilate ideas, popularize the culture of dialogue, achieve harmonization through debates that can enhance mutual understanding,

and creating awareness of gender issues, HIV/AIDS and ICT as cross-cutting issues.

Scope of Coverage: The conferences and forums are expected to be held at least four times every year, 20 times in five years, with an estimated total outreach of 2,000.

The activities outlined in the workplan for 2002-2006 aim to achieve the following:

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6.0  Major  Goals And Expected Outcomes  of the  Capacity Building Programme

6.1.Anticipated Goals and Outcomes of the Capacity Building Programme            

Capacity Building in International Relations 

Goals. Equipping trainees with practical knowledge and skills to accomplish tasks in a wide range of areas which promote the national interests of Ethiopia.  

Output. At least 400 senior and middle-level experts in the public sector will benefit from the 160 (16x2x5) weeks of training programmes in international relations, diplomacy and negotiation techniques.

Goal. Upgrading the skills of Ethiopia's foreign service professionals. 

Output. some 200 practicing diplomats will have upgraded their competence through the skills acquired in diplomatic communications, diplomacy, conflict management, negotiations, ICT and economic diplomacy.  

Goal. Improving the skills of civil service professionals 

Output. Some 200 high-Ievel and middle-level officials will acquire knowledge and skills in international and global negotiations, diplomacy, communication, digital diplomacy and other subjects which are useful in their dealings with foreign actors. The impact will be extended through the knowledge-sharing processes between the trained functionaries and the staff they supervise.  

The conferences and forums involving the participation of the public and private sectors, civil society and the media, the donor community and diplomats accredited to Ethiopia will promote partnership of the stakeholders in the development and peace agenda. In the process, governance and democracy will be the beneficiaries.

Goals. Professionals and experts on development models and management tools as well as specialists in technologies which are relevant to the Ethiopian condition, will conduct seminars and workshops.  

 Output. Some 1500 managerial and expert level personnel in the public, private and civil society sectors will participate in the above  seminars and workshops.

Goals. Providing knowledge skills to newly recruited diplomats 

Output. An estimated 100-120 newly recruited graduates will receive practical training in International Relations.

6.2.  Anticipated Outcomes of Planned Conferences 

Goals. Experience and knowledge will be imparted by opinion makers and specialists in a wide range of public affairs and the media.  

Outputs. An estimated 2,500 participants are expected to attend the partnership and consensus building conferences and fora.

6.3  Partnership and Networking with other Institutions 

Goals. Networking with at least ten foreign institutions will be undertaken. To strengthen its capacity, the EIIPD will recruit and train 30-35 experts in research methodology and project preparation.  

Output. Joint projects which focus on training and research on conflict issues and resources development will be conducted.

Such partner institutions will be drawn from the US, UK, China, Germany, Italy, Sudan, Somaliland, Kenya, Middle East, Yemen and others. The Institute will also continue its contacts with other partners to enhance its knowledge base and expertise.

6.4.  Awareness Generation Activities

Goals. Creating and deepening awareness on issues of importance in the public domain and the areas of Ethiopia's national security and development concerns.

Output. Tens of thousands will be reached through the awareness generation activities of the Institute. These will be done via the distribution of published information and books which focus on promoting the value of peace and development, participation in international conferences and seminars, information provided to domestic international electronic and print media outlets, as well as interviews and participation in other media programmes.

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7.0.Bugetary Inputs

The Regulations of the FDRE establishing the Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development provide that it derive its financial resources from voluntary contributions by donors, income from its activities and government subsidy. It has devised strategies to raise revenue from its activities.

The plan is for budgetary expenditures of under USD 4,000.000 (four million) over a period of five years. The budgetary plan takes stalk of the following activities and considerations: 

1.  The capacity building, awareness generation and partnership-consensus building prime functions will be organized and executed at a level that can make an impact.

2. To achieve the desired quality, adequate resources are necessary to employ the inputs and services of competent resource persons attracted through competitive remuneration.

3. Qualified Ethiopians and international experts with exceptional skills and expertise will have to be employed to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the capacity building programme outputs. Furthermore, the EIIPD will continue its networking and experience-sharing as well as collaborative programme activities in its relations with institutions of training and research in other African countries, in Europe, Asia and North America. Payments to international professionals, consultants and networking activities as well as procurement of books are expected to take up about 24% of the total budget, to be disbursed in hard currency.

4. Significant budget resources are required to attract high caliber scholars by offering competitive remuneration and for on-the-job training of young researchers, for training them on the job and at other centers of excellence to create a core leadership in the planning and implementation of projects in capacity building and research and consultancy. This is expected to involve external payment to the tune of 1% of the total budget

The programmes indicated in the above section  above are expected to generate about 5% - 7% of the operational budget of the EIIPD.  

In sum, it is envisaged that 25% of the budget will be disbursed in hard currency.  

The following budget proposal gives rough estimates for each one of the five years, beginning in July 2002, taking the Ethiopian Fiscal year as a benchmark

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8.0. Budget Estimate

Note:-  

1.  International travel is for participation in conferences and seminars abroad,    networking trips to visit cooperating institutions.

2. Subcontracts are for specialized projects which are not covered by the budget for international experts and national experts under the regular programmes.

3. MIS is for procurement of books and journals, publishing of books and other information management capacity building activities

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