ABSTRACT

UNDP’s Human Development Index, HDI, ranked Ethiopia in 2005 as number 169 out of 177 countries. 1 In 1990 Ethiopia was ranked as number 111 out of 130 countries, implying that the country was relatively better off in the past. Lifting human resource development (HRD) in Ethiopia to levels comparable with middle-level countries is a long-term undertaking and may require a couple of decades or more of concentrated and consistent long-range perspective investment under governmental direction. This comes to drawing up an HRD– education sector roadmap for 20 to 30 years, which is what this chapter will present. The chapter is based on an advisory assignment in 2009 on behalf of United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to Ministry of Education (MOE), Ethiopia.