Ethiopia
USAID and the Government of Ethiopia are increasingly interested in investing in the early years. Through the Together for Early Childhood Evidence consortium in Africa, early childhood education stakeholders in Ethiopia collaborate on the country’s early childhood data and measurement issues.
The Ethiopia country team has been meeting since 2019 to discuss data and measurement issues in Ethiopia. In 2019, the team completed the T4ECE Diagnostic Toolkit to prioritize key questions that data can answer in Ethiopia, summarize existing data sources, and start to identify how data can inform the Ministry’s new Early Childhood Development Policy Framework.
The country team identified inaccessible and fragmented data as a core challenge in Ethiopia. In 2021, the Together for Early Childhood Evidence country team launched a research project with the Ethiopian School Readiness Initiative to create a repository for early childhood data and resources. Under Ethiopian School Readiness Initiative's leadership, the local research team consulted with early childhood stakeholders to compile existing resources and data to create a knowledge hub for exemplary early childhood education development practices. The team then established an ECDE Knowledge Hub, hosted on the Addis Ababa University website, where more than 450 materials and resources exist. The ECDE Knowledge Hub is hosted on the Addis Ababa University website, where the materials and resources can easily be retrieved and are publicly available. The team hopes the hub will create opportunities for improved coordination among institutions, organizations, and individual professionals to collaborate to advance early childhood development and education in Ethiopia. Learn more about the Ethiopia project here.
In 2024, the Ethiopian T4ECE Task Force team expressed interest in expanding the Knowledge Hub to accompany the renewed commitment from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Women and Social Affairs, and partner organizations to scale up preprimary services and develop new resources nationwide. The project is led by the Ethiopia School Readiness Initiative in partnership with Addis Ababa University and the Educational Assessment and Examination Service. In the first phase of development, the Knowledge Hub focused on collecting resources primarily from organizations in Addis Ababa City. This year, the research team will focus on strengthening and scaling up the existing Knowledge Hub, as it will broaden its reach to organizations and resources available nationwide to build the collective knowledge base of ECE throughout Ethiopia. Further, the team will work on building capacity and knowledge exchange efforts through synthesizing resources, enhancing the knowledge hub interface, and hosting several workshops to strengthen knowledge around early childhood data and measurement in Ethiopia. For more information, please read ECCE Knowledge Hub Strengthening and Capacity Building in Ethiopia.
To learn more, please read about Together for Early Childhood Evidence in Ethiopia.
Additional Information
The Ethiopia country team was established in 2019, and is co-chaired by USAID Ethiopia and the Ministry of Education.
Key Indicators from Ethiopia
Data from the World Bank.
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Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (2017 PPP) (% of population) |
27% |
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GDP per capita (current US$) |
$925 |
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School enrollment, preprimary (% gross) |
30% |
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Prevalence of stunting, height for age (% of children under 5) |
37% |
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Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) |
47 |
Country Team Members
Education Specialist, USAID Ethiopia
Senior Expert, Ministry of Education
Expert, Ministry of Education
Expert, Ministry of Education
Ministry of Education
Executive Director of Education, Evaluation, and Research, Education, Evaluation, and Research National Education Assessment and Examinations Agency
Director, National Educational Assessment and Examinations Agency
Assessment Expert, National Educational Assessment and Examinations Agency
Assessment Expert, National Educational Assessment and Examinations Agency
Head, Early Childhood Care and Education Center, Addis Ababa University
Associate Professor of Education, Addis Ababa University
Assistant Professor, Addis Ababa University
Professor of Psychology, Addis Ababa University
Executive Director, School Readiness Initiative
Economist, World Bank
Early Years Fellow, World Bank
Early Childhood Development Specialist, UNICEF
Education Specialist, Plan International
The Together for Early Childhood Evidence program is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development under the terms of contract No. 7200AA19C00080, subcontract CATALYZE-Edu-CR-2023-0352. The contents of this website are developed by the Early Childhood Development Measure group hosted at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.