In May 2019 reporting said the World Bank’s board approved a package totaling about $550 million for Ethiopia, combining support for lowland livelihoods with energy-sector guarantees.
About $350 million from IDA—$70 million grant and $280 million credit—was aimed at improving livelihoods and resilience for roughly 2.5 million pastoralists and agro-pastoralists, while a separate $200 million REGREP envelope backed private solar and wind investment.
The twin approvals showed how donors tied rural resilience money to power-sector reform in the same week of board decisions.
Kept as economy and development archive, the $550 million package is a dated World Bank checkpoint for Abiy Ahmed’s early reform years.
Sources: Political Analysis South Africa, World Bank