Stocktake of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Ethiopia

The report assesses the progress of 40 adaptation interventions across various sectors in Ethiopia, finding that nearly 67% of the 64 associated indicators lack current data for tracking. While the health sector shows strong implementation and monitoring, the water, energy, and urban sectors suffer from significant data gaps and institutional capacity constraints. The analysis highlights a critical lack of gender-sensitive indicators, with only six of 64 being gender-sensitive, and recommends expanding the NDC's scope to include the financial, labour affairs, industry, and education sectors to address heat stress and financial exclusion.

• A significant majority of adaptation indicators in the 2021 updated NDC are not being tracked, with approximately 66% (31 out of 41) lacking current information.
• Implementation and tracking success varies by sector: health-related interventions are progressing as planned and tracked, whereas water and energy sector indicators lack current information entirely, leaving their implementation status unknown.
• The Green Legacy Initiative, launched in 2019, surpassed its target of planting 20 billion trees by 2024, achieving 25 billion seedlings and creating over 767,000 jobs.
• There is a critical gap in gender mainstreaming, as only six of the 64 NDC adaptation indicators are gender-sensitive, and most line ministries failed to incorporate recommended gender-disaggregated indicators.
• The agricultural sector faces challenges in tracking crop-related adaptation due to a lack of annual data from the Ethiopian Statistical Service (ESS) or official sources on productivity and irrigation.
• The report identifies a need to include new sectors in the NDC 3.0, specifically industry, education, labour affairs, and finance, to address impacts such as heat stress on productivity and student performance.
• Financial exclusion is a barrier to adaptation, with a significant gender gap in bank account ownership; only 9.6% of rural females had a bank account in 2018/19 compared to 25.8% of rural males.
• Barriers to effective gender mainstreaming include a lack of knowledge, poor communication between the Ministry of Planning and Development (MoPD) and line ministries, and a lack of strong women's networks.

APA

NAP Global Network (2025). Stocktake of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Ethiopia. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethiopia-stocktake-climate-change-adaptation-last-final.pdf

Chicago

NAP Global Network. Stocktake of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Ethiopia. 2025. https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethiopia-stocktake-climate-change-adaptation-last-final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{napglobalnetwork2025stocktake, author = {{NAP Global Network}}, title = {{Stocktake of Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Ethiopia}}, institution = {NAP Global Network}, year = {2025}, month = mar, url = {https://napglobalnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ethiopia-stocktake-climate-change-adaptation-last-final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }