Recurring Disasters: Swedish Humanitarian Assistance to Ethiopia

Sammanfattning

Working Paper, April 2022 Sweden is one of the largest bilateral humanitarian donors in the world, and a committed provider of humanitarian assistance to a range of crisis-affected countries. The objective of this paper is to present an overview of Swedish humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia since the mid-1970s until 2020. The report has a retrospective perspective. Prime focus is on the scale and character of the Swedish emergency response. As a backdrop to the presentation of Swedish assistance, the paper also includes a short introduction to humanitarian assistance in general as well as a brief description of the Ethiopian context with an emphasis on the emergencies and disasters which have motivated humanitarian support. The Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) is responsible for providing humanitarian assistance at country and regional level, as a consequence, focus in this paper is on assistance channelled by Sida.....