Abbreviations

ACLED

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project

ACSI

Amhara Credit and Savings Institution

ADLI

Agricultural Development-Led Industrialisation

AGOA

African Growth and Opportunity Act

AILAA

Agricultural Investment Land Administration Agency

AISD

Agricultural Investment Support Directorate

ANDM

Amhara National Democratic Movement

ATA

Agricultural Transformation Agency

CCI

Complementary Community Investments

CSA

Central Statistical Agency

CUD

Coalition for Unity and Democracy

DBE

Development Bank of Ethiopia

DECSI

Dedebit Credit and Savings Institution

EFFORT

Endowment Fund For the Rehabilitation of Tigray

EIZ

Eastern Industrial Zone

ELF

Eritrean Liberation Front

EPDM

Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement

EPLF

Eritrean People’s Liberation Front

EPRDF

Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front

EPRP

Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party

ESDA

Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency

FDI

Foreign Direct Investment

FDRE

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

GERD

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GTP

Growth and Transformation Plan

HABP

Household Asset Building Programme

HRW

Human Rights Watch

IFI

International Finance Institution

IHDP

Integrated Housing Development Programme

IMF

International Monetary Fund

MEISON

All Ethiopia Socialist Movement

MetEC

Metals and Engineering Corporation

MFI

Microfinance Institution

MIDROC

Mohammed International Development Research and Organization Companies

MoARD

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

MoFED

Ministry of Finance and Economic Development

MoLSA

Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

MSE

Micro and Small Enterprise

NAEIP

National Agricultural Extension Intervention Program

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisation

NRM

National Resistance Movement

OCSI

Oromiya Credit and Savings Institution. Also known by the Afaan Oromo acronym WALQO

OFC

Oromo Federalist Congress

OLF

Oromo Liberation Front

ONLF

Ogaden National Liberation Front

OPDO

Oromo People’s Democratic Organisation

ORDA

Organisation for the Rehabilitation and Development of Amhara

PASDEP

Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty

PBS

Protection of Basic Services

PSNP

Productive Safety Net Programme

PVH

Phillips-Van Heusen

REST

Relief Society of Tigray

RPF

Rwandan Patriotic Front

SEPDM

Southern Ethiopian Peoples’ Democratic Movement

SNNPR

Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region

TGE

Transitional Government of Ethiopia

TPLF

Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front

TVET

Technical and Vocational Education and Training

UMNO

United Malays National Organisation

UPSNP

Urban Productive Safety Net Programme

US

United States

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WFP

World Food Programme