{"id":276539,"date":"2019-05-20T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiP2h0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNS8yMC8yMDE5L2VkdGYtZXRoaW9waWEtYm9hcmQtYW5ub3VuY2VkL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:28:20","slug":"ethiopian-diaspora-trust-fund-named-an-11-member-board-with-five-seats-for-the-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276539","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund named an 11-member board with five seats for the diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 May 2019 Tadias Magazine reported that the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund had announced an 11-member Board of Directors, with five seats reserved for diaspora representatives from different parts of the world.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund named an 11-member board with five seats for the diaspora\" \/>\n<p>The fund was part of Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early appeal for diaspora money to support development projects after years when many exiles stayed politically distant from Addis Ababa. Board appointments mattered because they signaled who would control priorities and oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Diaspora finance can strengthen clinics and schools, and it can also become another patronage channel if transparency is weak. The Tadias notice at least dated the first public board slate.<\/p>\n<p>As diaspora and finance archive, the EDTF board announcement is a checkpoint for how the reform government tried to turn remittance politics into an organized trust structure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/05\/20\/2019\/edtf-ethiopia-board-announced\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDTF Ethiopia Board Announced at Tadias Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineOf the 11-member Board of Directors five are chosen from the Diaspora representing &#8220;different parts of the globe,&#8221; the announcement stated. (Image: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19Wj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276539"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754834,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276539\/revisions\/754834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}