Britain on Tuesday announced a package of 316 million U.S. dollars of grant aid to support the provision of basic services, social protection and humanitarian assistance in Ethiopia, Ethiopia's state media reported.
The official Ethiopian News Agency quoted Gareth Thomas, Britain's state minister for development, as saying at a press conference that the fund will be used for expansion of health and education services as well as safe water provision and road construction over the next three years.
Together with the Ethiopian government's own resources and other external support over the next three years, the British aid will contribute
in the efforts to enrols additional 2.8 million children in schools, get access to 150,000 extra trained teachers, said Thomas.
It will also offer access to 6,000 trained health workers, equip 1,280 health centers with emergency obstetric care and enable 6 million households benefit from safe water service, he said.
He also confirmed the British government has allocated 71 million pounds (119 million dollars) this year for the country's Productive Safety
Net Program, a food-for-work scheme, and for the emergency humanitarian responses.