[{"bbox": [134, 153, 1135, 211], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Enhance the capacity of key institutions and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the implementation of a comprehensive national Transitional Justice policy with a focus on accountability"}, {"bbox": [134, 214, 1135, 272], "category": "List-item", "text": "3. Strengthen National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) as an independent democratic governance institution, as well as to strengthen civil society participation and oversight of elections"}, {"bbox": [134, 275, 1135, 363], "category": "List-item", "text": "4. Contribute to the Ethiopia Resilient Recovery and Reconstruction Framework (3RF) implementation in the Tigray region through the support to the governance reforms in this region by enhancing the capacities of the Ministry of Finance and the Interim Regional Administration of Tigray."}, {"bbox": [134, 366, 1135, 424], "category": "List-item", "text": "5. Improve capacities of Ethiopian institutions at all levels to advance Gender Equality and Women Empowerment (GEWE) in line with international and national normative frameworks and commitments"}, {"bbox": [96, 439, 1135, 494], "category": "Text", "text": "This Action ontributes to Priority Area 3: Governance and Peacebuilding of the MIP and more specifically, it contributes to the Democratic Governance and Peacebuilding components' objectives."}, {"bbox": [87, 534, 506, 565], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 1.3 Zone benefitting from the Action"}, {"bbox": [87, 582, 1143, 610], "category": "Text", "text": "The Action shall be carried out in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, included in the list of ODA recipients."}, {"bbox": [87, 642, 322, 674], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 2 RATIONALE"}, {"bbox": [87, 707, 233, 734], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 2.1 Context"}, {"bbox": [96, 754, 1135, 1147], "category": "Text", "text": "Ethiopia is the second most populous country and plays a key role in the stabilisation of the Horn of Africa. Since 2018, Ethiopia has undergone significant political shifts. After 27 years of leadership by the TPLF, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed introduced reforms, freeing political prisoners, fostering peace in Eritrea, and forming the Prosperity Party. However, these changes also exposed ethnic tensions and divisions suppressed under the previous regime, leading to an increasing number of protests, clashes and conflicts. The war in the north with TPLF that started in November 2020 has led the country to a further crisis. Although aCoHA was signed in November 2022, its implementation remains complex and fragile, as the CoHA did not address long standing unresolved issues and satisfied the interests of all those stakeholders engaged in the conflict. Dynamics across the rest of Ethiopia, and particularly in Amhara and Oromia, are also very much concerning. The lack of peace and security and instability in most of the regions of the country along with the high cost of living has created profound challenges for Ethiopia's economy, social fabric and intercommunal relationships, and the safety and protection of its citizens. Human rights violations and abuses such as sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) continue to happen in Northen Ethiopia even one year after the CoHA agreement."}, {"bbox": [96, 1162, 1135, 1343], "category": "Text", "text": "A National Dialogue Commission was created two years ago to achieve consensus on national fundamental issues among all segments of the society. This relevant initiative aims at combating the increasing polarisation and fragmentation of the Ethiopian society and will require high dosis of accountability, inclusivity and transparency to succeed. Another relevant and challenging peace related process taking place in the country is the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DRR) of more than 370,000 ex-combatants, most of them from the Tigray region."}, {"bbox": [96, 1358, 1135, 1447], "category": "Text", "text": "Promoting efforts towards peace, stabilisation and recovery from recent conflicts through strengthening more inclusive, strong and resilient local institutions and civil society, effective reforms and processes that lead to sustainable peace, recovery and development, is the core of this action."}, {"bbox": [96, 1461, 1135, 1643], "category": "Text", "text": "Within the framework of the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA), the Ethiopian government has embarked on designing a transitional justice mechanism to provide accountability for and address gross human rights violations committed during the armed conflict in the North. The mechanism to be designed will require a genuine political will and it will need to be comprehensive in terms of embracing all elements of a Transitional Justice (TJ) process, namely criminal justice, truth, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence/institutional reform. It is expected that the mechanism will also address considerable violations and grievances in other parts"}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 4 of 30"}]