Ethiopia: Integrated Sustainable Financing Framework (E-ISFF)

Ethiopia’s Integrated Sustainable Financing Framework (E-ISFF) is a national roadmap to close the financing gap for the Ten-Year Development Plan (TYDP) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by shifting from reliance on public debt and external aid toward a more sustainable, private sector-led financing model. It identifies key challenges including low tax revenues, debt pressures, foreign exchange shortages, and limited access to finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), while proposing reforms such as stronger domestic resource mobilization, capital market development, public-private partnerships (PPPs), climate finance, digital finance, and new instruments like green bonds and blended finance. Led by the Ministry of Finance, the framework aims to create a new financing architecture that better aligns public and private, domestic and international finance with Ethiopia’s long-term development priorities.