Ethiopia’s economic growth is highly dependent on the agricultural sector. Therefore, development efforts to change the existing socio-economic condition of the country would also be dependent on the efficiency of this sector for the foreseeable future. However, a better performance of the agricultural sector in particular, and the sustainable economic growth of the country at large would be achieved through an improvement of the basic infrastructure. Consequently, the road network has been identified as a serious bottleneck for the economic development of the country.

The primary objective of the ongoing program is to restore and expand Ethiopia’s road network , which has become an obstacle and major impediment to sustainability of the economic development program. Side by side the program would assist in developing strong management and technical capacity to manage the road network, and develop the capacity of domestic construction industry.