This publication is based on the notion that neither the Maltese Government nor NGDOs have gained sufficient expertise nor have they developed adequate strategies to efficiently engage in policy discourses at the national, EU and international levels or in on-the-ground projects in benefit of Ethiopian impoverished communities.
It therefore aims to present an introduction to the European Union’s policy and strategic framework vis-à-vis Africa, particularly the Horn of Africa, with a specific emphasis on Ethiopia. As do these framework documents, the Ethiopian government’s national poverty reduction strategy highlights that effective poverty eradication is paradigmatically perceived as being achievable first and foremost through economic development. In fact, economic prosperity and reform, market integration and liberalisation and relations within the region and with the EU are the strategies’ apparent leitmotif. (...)
