{"id":279340,"date":"2019-06-19T02:57:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZ2h0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vcG9saXRpY3MvZXRoaW9waWEtc2VjdXJlcy00MC1taWxsaW9uLXRvLWNvbmR1Y3QtZnJlZS1lbGVjdGlvbi1uZXh0LW1heS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:52","slug":"undp-and-donors-pledged-about-40-million-to-support-ethiopias-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279340","title":{"rendered":"UNDP and donors pledged about $40 million to support Ethiopia\u2019s next election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 New Business Ethiopia reported that the United Nations Development Programme and donor countries had lined up about $40 million to support the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia ahead of the general election planned for the following May.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-271272\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"UNDP and donors pledged about $40 million to support Ethiopia\u2019s next election\" \/>\n<p>Board chair Birtukan Mideksa and Finance Minister Ahmed Shide said the funds would strengthen capacity, transparency, and work against electoral violence, while critics warned that displacement and insecurity still threatened a free vote.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as election-finance archive, the New Business Ethiopia report dates the mid-2019 donor package for Ethiopia\u2019s electoral board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/politics\/ethiopia-secures-40-million-to-conduct-free-election-next-may\/\">New Business Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia secures $40 million to conduct free election next May&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaSupporting Ethiopia&#8217;s ongoing democratization process and reform, The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and donor countries have provided $40 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":271272,"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-279340","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\/2019\/03\/Ethiopian-opposition-parties-announce-plan-to-merge.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aFu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279340","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=279340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755275,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279340\/revisions\/755275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}