Cowater International (Ethiopia)

As a global development player and the largest and most technically diversified international development consulting company in Canada, we deliver results that generate lasting social, economic and environmental impacts. We provide technical assistance, policy advice and implementation support across 12 major service lines that cover a wide range of economic, human and sustainable development areas. We possess internationally recognised and award-winning experience at the policy, program and project levels allowing us to deliver projects that are technically demanding on time and on budget, even in the most complex of environments.

Cowater is delivering this FCDO-funded project with the Government of Ethiopia (GoE). The overall objective of this project is to raise tax revenues towards 17.2% of GDP in a responsible and equitable manner. The scope of TTP will be to cover all areas related to revenue policy and administration in Ethiopia, including domestic tax and customs. This project has interlinked outcomes; creating an equitable and business friendly tax environment; improving voluntary compliance and increasing GoE revenues. To meet these outcomes, TTP will establish working relationships with the programme’s key beneficiaries; Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Revenue, and the Customs Commission as well as the Prime Minister’s Office, in particular the Policy Performance Unit.