The Proclamation stipulates that all rural lands shall be the collective property of the Ethiopian people. It abolishes private ownership of rural land, and declares that Peasant Associations are in charge of the redistribution, cultivation, administration etc. of rural lands. The Proclamation details; Public Ownership of Rural Lands, Establishment of Associations for the Implementation of the Proclamation, Powers and Functions of the Minister of Land Reform and Administration, Communal and Nomadic Lands, and General Provisions.

The 274th proclamation of 2002 establishes the cooperatives commission as an autonomous federal government organ. The commission shall be accountable to the ministry of rural development. “The objective of the Commission is to enable rural and urban working people to solve the economic and social
problem they face by themselves and become self-reliant by being organized in cooperatives different in type and standard depending on the local resources”.

A proclamation to ratify the Cartegena protocol on biosafety. The protocol was adopted on the 20th day of january 2000. The Environmental Protection Authority is authorized to take, in cooperation with the appropriate Federal, Regional and city government organs, actions necessary to implement the Protocol.

The constitution of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia grants the state and its people exclusive rights to the ownership and control of lands, as well as the empowerment to administer lands and other natural resources. This proclamation states the genereal provisions on land administration, contents of a land administration law, conditions of land administration, and miscellaneous provisions.

The constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia gives the state and people exclusive rights to own and administer lands. It is also deemed necesaary, among other things, to have a database of different land holdings type, encourage more women to own lands as a tool for increased agricultural production, and create the necessary framework to improve the land use rights of farmers. This proclamation applies to all land found in the southern nations, nationalities, and peoples’ region. The Proclamation defines the right to acquire, free of charge, rural land by peasants, pastoralists and semi-pastoralists engaged in agriculture; it also makes provisions for the equal rights of women with respect to land and provides for the protection of such rights. It avails rural youths, who wish to engage in agriculture the right to get and use rural land which is possessed by the community or government. The Proclamation also defines special rights of other disadvantaged persons.

The cooperative societies proclamation of 1998 is amended in the form of articles and sub articles addition, deletion, and form alterations.

This serves as a revision to the 1997 charter proclamation. The charter strives to ensure the city of Addis Ababa becomes a suitable place to live and work by all modern measurable standards. This becomes quite important giving the city’s status as the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the seat of the African Union and a number of international organizations. It highlights important details including; boundary, working language, rights of residence, elections, as well as the rights, objectives, organization, powers, and functions of the city government.

The council of ministers recognises the need for an harmonised disaster management system that is responsive to pre, during, and post disaster yearnings. The set of regulations contained therein also provides a legal framework for disaster risk management approaches, implementation plans, and the necessary bodies involved in the holistic process. The national disaster risk management commission is thus established as an autonomous federal office, accountable to the office of the prime minister.

These regulations are purusuant to the expropriation of landholdings for public purposes and payment of compensation proclamation 455 of 2005. It contains details on assessment of compensation for buildings, fences, crops, trees, relocated property, burial-ground, protected grass, and permanent improvement on rural lands. It also chiefly addresses the specific formulas to arrive at the different amounts of compensation payable in accrodance with the relevant proclamation and regulations.

The council of ministers regulations to provide for the establishment of the Ethiopian development research institute as an autonomous institution of the federal government, accountable to the office of the prime minister. It has a sole and clear objective of identifying and carrying out research, surveys, and studies for the national development of the country. It also highlights the organs of the institute, its powers and duties, and books of account, among others.

The PASDEP acknowledges the various constraints faced by the Ethiopian economy as a result of poor policy coordination and dwindling levels of investment. The plan therefore seeks to facilitate the development of agriculture along the lines of human capacity development, input supply, technology adoption, and infrastructure provision.

This serves as the regulation for the establishment of the national planning council and the national planning commission of Ethiopia. The council is to be an autonomous federal government organ accountable to the prime minister. It contains the powers and duties of the council, its meetings, as well as its members, among other things. The council is saddled with the responsibility of producing long term national plans and frameworks for the development of the country.

The establishment of the emergency food security reserve administration serves as a foresight towards mitigating against disasters at their onset, till other emergency sources can be mobilized. It highlights the sources of reserve, ownership, reserve type and size, and the organization of the administration. The agency is to be supervised by the disaster prevention and preparedness commission.

This serves as the regulation for the re-establishment of the Ethiopian National accreditation office, as an autonomous federal government office, and placed under the supervision of the ministry of science and technology. The office is to work towards facilitating the acceptance of Ethiopian products, locally and internationally.

“An agreement on economic and technical cooperation, between the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Government of Greece, signed in Athens on the 20th day of November, 1998.”

This development strategy highlights the resolve of the transitional government of Ethiopia to address the issue of economic backwardness prevalent in the country at the time. It attributes this issue to the defective government organizations of the past. This strategy contains the necessary frameworks to address the issues recognized, and raise the standard of living of the citizens of Ethiopia.

This 2013 regulation provides for the establishment of the national planning council and the national planning commision.

The government of Ethiopia has a single priority goal of poverty reduction. It aims to leverage on economic growth as one of the core tools to drive the achievement of this goal. The SDPRP prioritises agricultural and rural development due to their strategic contributions to the livelihood of about 85% of Ethiopians. It discusses the need to ensure adequate private sector contribution, improve the public sector’s facilitation objective, and adequately develop the export sector as other tools to be explored. “The overarching objective of the government’s poverty reduction strategy is to reduce poverty and equally maintain macroeconomic stability”.

Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are very important to the health of economies globally. The government of Ethiopia acknowledges the role MSMEs could play in contributing to the long term vision of attaining middle income status by 2025. This strategy highlights plans to ensure the creation of an enabling environment for existing and aspiring entrepreneurs, including the youth and women in Ethiopia.

It is equally important to ensure witnesses and whistleblowers who provide information on criminal offences are safely protected to build up trust in the system. This proclamation “legislates the protection systems that need to be put in place in order to protect witnesses and whistleblowers of criminal offense from direct or indirect danger and attack they may face as a consequence thereof and thereby to ensure their safety”.