Background: Urban Transformational Leadership Development brings to the forefront the Ministry’s focus on the leadership that is needed – at federal, regional and especially city levels – to meet the challenge of transforming Ethiopia from a predominantly agrarian to a leading industrial, manufacturing and exporting middle income country. For the previous two 5-year plans (PASDEP 2005/06-2009/10) and GTP1 2010/11-2014/15) the focus was on large scale investments in urban development and housing linked to job creation through establishment of micro and small enterprises. The challenge now is to build on those efforts in creating jobs, scaling up micro to small, small to medium and medium to large industries to achieve prosperity through good governance, economic and social development and achievement of citizens’ satisfaction.
Objective: To provide the leadership, build the capacities of all those members of the urban development, housing and construction industry developmental army, provide the policy direction, legal and regulatory frameworks, organizational capacity, management systems, and means of communication to mobilize the public support necessary to ensure that urban centers and industrialization provide the platform for Ethiopia’s structural transformation.
Goals:
- Capable and motivated current and future leaders, including women;
- Capable and motivated current and future professionals and technicians at university graduate and vocational levels, including women;
- Benchmarked performance targets are linked to a prosperity index that contributes to achievement of the ECSPI and GTP2 objectives and goals
- ICT systems enable executive and administrative members of the developmental army to make decision, plan ahead and manage effectively; and
- Communication, public mobilization and incentives secure substantial public participation in achieving urban development, housing and construction industry objectives and goals.
Linkages: The four Pillar 1 projects are strongly interlinked, especially 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 which make the main contribution to the GTP2 management information system. Pillar 3, Project 3.1.1 provides inputs to the performance measurement system by setting standards for service delivery. Project 3.1.2 provides the overall capacity building framework for training university and TVET education and training, generally and for the GTP2 in particular. Project 3.1.1 provides inputs to build the institutional framework and organizational capacity for cities as well as contributing to building the bench marking system.