Description

The Agency was established with the objective of ensuring fair distribution of resources by expanding small and medium manufacturing industries and to reinforce and support the creation of supportive institutions. Article 26(2) of the 2019 Proclamation provides refugees the right to engage in industry and small and micro enterprises on the basis of the most favorable foreigner standard. Also, under article 26(4), refugees engaged in rural and urban projects jointly designed by the Ethiopian Government and the international community to benefits refugees and Ethiopian nationals including in industry and small and micro enterprises shall be given equal treatment as accorded to Ethiopian nationals engaged in the same projects. The Establishing Regulation lists the administrative requirements to acquire license. It would be relevant to analyze the Regulation and Refugee Proclamation in combination with Investment laws that reserved most of the areas open to such industries for domestic investors.