====== Ethiopia ======

**Region:** Eastern Africa  
**Regional Economic Communities (REC):** COMESA · IGAD  

→ [[https://iiag.online/locations/et.html|View IIAG Country Statistics]]

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^ Indicator ^ Data ^
| **Governance (IIAG)** | Overall Governance score: 48.4 / 100 · Rank: 29th / 54 |

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===== PART 1 – HIGH-LEVEL COUNTRY MAPPING =====

==== Institutions and Stakeholder Database ====
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==== REC Membership ====

  * COMESA
  * IGAD

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==== Population size and size of the informal economy ====

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==== Nature of the legal system and ILO status ====

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==== Workers’ rights in human rights system, national labour law / social protection and scope of protection ====

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==== Existing laws, policy and regulatory initiatives for the protection of workers in the informal economy ====

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===== PART 2 – SECTOR SPECIFIC REGULATION =====

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==== Domestic Work Sector ====

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==== Street Vendor ====

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==== Waste Reclaiming ====

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==== Home working ====

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==== Gig Work and the Platform Economy ====

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==== Farm Work ====

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==== The Mining Sector and Artisanal Mining ====

**Mining Proclamation No. 68/1995 of 20 March 1995**

  * Applies to:
    * All mining operations  
    * Prospecting, exploration, and extraction activities  
    * Related activities within the territory of Ethiopia (Art. 3)  

**Definition of artisanal mining (Art. 2(2)):**

  * Mining operations carried out by:
    * Individuals or small and microenterprises  
  * Typically:
    * Manual in nature  
    * Not involving employed labour  

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==== Taxi and Transport Sector (Gig-work/platform economy overlap) ====

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==== Cross-Border Informal Trade ====

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===== Sources / Links =====

  * IIAG – Ethiopia: https://iiag.online/locations/et.html
  * Mining Proclamation No. 68/1995
  * Institutions and Stakeholder Database – Ethiopia (to be linked)
  * ILO Country Profile – Ethiopia (to be linked)