Addis Ababa — Ethiopia and Norway signed agreements on hydropower development and capacity building academic cooperation worth around 400 million ETB on Monday, a press release from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Addis said.
The agreement was signed between State Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Ahmed Shide and the Norwegian Ambassador, Jens-Petter Kjemprud.
The hydropower agreement will cover feasibility studies for Mandaya and Beko-Abo power stations, each with a potential capacity of 2000 MW. The projects are aimed at developing reliable and environmentally sustainable power.
A component also included in the agreement is capacity-building for Ministry of Water Resources. The total cost of the two studies is stimated at more than 300 million ETB and this will be open for international bidding.
The 3 year agreement concerning academic cooperation between Mekelle and Hawassa Universities and the University of Life Science in Norway, is aimed at improving livelihood of rural poor communities in the rift valley and arid highlands of Ethiopia. Areas included in this agreement are education quality, development oriented research and organizing training programmes of stakeholders to tune their programmes and policies in an environmentally friendly manner. Earlier support has contributed to increased research and educational competence within natural resource-management, food-security and environment.
"Developing her hydropower resources is crucial to underpin Ethiopia's overall economic development and industrialization efforts and make the development sustainable", Ambassador Jens-Petter Kjemprud was quoted in a statement as saying "Ethiopia and Norway have more or less similar hydropower potential.
As we have developed ours, we would like to support Ethiopia doing the same and share our experiences. This agreement for feasibility studies on Beka Abo and Mandaya is an indication of that will", the ambassador added.
"I am also very happy that we are able to support the continuation of our support to Hawassa and Mekelle Universities particularly in their natural resource management programmes, where both have given impressive contributions to the government's efforts," concludes ambassador Kjemprud.
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