Global Integrity Report: Ethiopia - 2010
This peer-reviewed country report includes:
Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.
Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.
Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.
HIGHLIghts
Ethiopia's performance on the Global Integrity Report: 2010 continues a pattern of wild swings, both up and down, for the past several years. 2010 saw marked improvement, including in public access to government information, better enforcement of conflicts of interest safeguards across all three branches of government, the professionalism of the civil service, and the existence and effectiveness of transparency around political financing. The country's supreme auditor also continued to perform well. Despite those bright spots, significant challenges remain. Ethiopia's recent parliamentary elections led to 99.6% of the seats being won by the ruling party. Many voters, opposition parties, and external observers expressed disappointment with the diminishing political space in the country, most noticeable in a recent spate of restrictive laws enacted that curtail civil society organizations, the press, and the right of public demonstation. Restrictions around the creation of news outlets remain a major challenge to promoting an independent media, while both the national ombudsman and law enforcement agency come under routine political pressure.