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The Souther Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State(SNNPRs) of Ethiopia and Investment Related Issues
  1. The General Features of Our Region (SNNPR)
  2. Over view of Investment Activities in SNNPR
  3. The Investment Expansion Process
  4. Organizational Norm

3. The SNNPRs Investment Expansion Process

The Ethiopian government pioneered to take new economic measures that would eventually pave the way for the alleviation of social as well as economic chronic problems that are deep rooted in the country as a whole and in the region in particular. Following the declaration of a free market economic policy and subsequent issuance of conducive rules and regulations including the investment proclamation, many local and foreign investors have began to put maximum effort to make development a reality.

The Regional government which understood the irreplaceable dominant role of the private investment sector for the overall economic development of the region established our agency in 1985 E.C. The agency since its establishment has been making various efforts to promote investment activities in the region. One of the reform areas is civil service reform and service delivery has been improved dramatically as follows:
No Activities Time given by the law to perform each activity Average time taken to perform each activity before reform Average time taken to perform each activity after reform
1 Issuance of investment permits, 10days 38days 40min
2 Renewal of investment permits   2 1/2 days 30min
3 Effecting commercial registration 5 days 38days 20min
4 Issuance of business licenses 5 days 17days 55min
5 Allocation of land, and 45 days 10 months 10days
6 Providing incentives to potential investments   15 days 50min
After implementation of the BPR in our organization various positive results are seen. Even though the program is new for the country and our region, and also we are in the starting phase of the implementation of the program it is possible to conclude that the reform brings positive results in our organization and it helps us to improve our performance, i.e., the efficiency of the organization improved from different directions

Case Teams Under investment Expansion and Promotion Process

As the result of the BPR process, restructuring has been done both at regional and zonal levels. Case teams at regional levels include the following lines
1. License Issuance case Team
2. Land Delivery Case Team
3. Monitoring and Support Case Team
4. Potential , Promotion and Information Case Team
Zones also have the service delivery lines mentioned above but are further categorized into 3 major sub zones namely zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3.
Zone one include Hawassa, Wolayta, Sidama, Gurage, Gamo Gofa, Bench Maji, South Omo, Kaffa, with 10 staff members including drivers.
Some of the Regional Investment Expansion process Staff members

Zone two include: Hadiya, Silte, and Gedeo, with 9 staff members including drivers.
Kembata Tembaro, Shaka, and Dawro, with 8 staff members including drivers. Each of the above sub zones have three main service delivering case teams

  • License Issuance case Team
  • Land Delivery Case Team
  • Monitoring and Promotion and Information Case Team

Customer Service Areas.

In our organization we have two departments. Out of them one department is performing activities which are directly associated with rendering different services to customers. The important services which our organizations giving to customers are:-
1. Issuance of investment permits ( click here to find the application form )
2. Renewal of investment permits,
3. Effecting commercial registration,
4. Issuance of business licenses,
5. Allocation of land, and
6. Providing incentives to potential investments.( Click here to find the incentive regulation document)
 
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