The Ministry of industry was re-established in proclamation No 1263/2021 issued to provide for the definition of powers and duties of the executive organs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE)

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Formulate policies, strategies, programs and legal framework that ensure the development and competitiveness of the industry in particular the development of the manufacturing industry in a sustainable manner; prepare detail program compatible with the national development plan and implement the same upon approval;
• Create an enabling system for enhanced participation and role of the private sector in the industry in particular in the manufacturing industry; create conducive condition for the implementation of the same;
• Identify sub-sectors that require special attention in the industry in particular in the manufacturing sector such as textile, leather, food and beverages industries from comparative advantage and potential perspective; prepare detail program compatible with the national development plan and implement the same upon approval;
• Cause the building of capacity and enhancement of competitiveness of industries, investment and manufacturing industries by providing the necessary support for researchers in the sector;
• Create conducive conditions for the participation of domestic and foreign investors in the investment of manufacturing industry sector in accordance with the investment laws; establish a system to enable the institutions accountable to it to support mainly domestic investors and implement the same
• perform activities that enhance the industry in particular the development of the manufacturing industry sector; expedite the acquisition of best practice and perform general capacity building activities in the manufacturing industry;
• cause the provision of assistance including industrial extension services, technology, inputs, marketing and manufacturing methods and thereby ensure growth and productivity of the industry in particular in the manufacturing sector and monitor the effectiveness thereof;
• Establish a system of capacity building, research and inculcation to maintain quality standards and competitiveness of industrial in particular manufacturing industrial products in international markets; oversee implementation of the same;
• devise, in collaboration with the concerned organs, mechanisms to meet human resources needs and sustainable input provisions required in the industry sector in particular in manufacturing industrial sector; work with the concerned sector and bodies to create conditions necessary for the establishment of a system for industrial input provision linkages and implement the same;
• Work in collaboration with concerned Federal and Regional bodies to promote the industry sector; devise mechanism to bring inclusive and sustainable structural change in the sector and establish a system for implementation of the same
• Support the substitution of import goods, other than those entrusted to the Ministry of Mines, having strategic importance with domestic products;
• Establish working mechanism and formulate policy and strategy that enable to create linkage and effective transformation between small, medium and large-scale industries
• Devise mechanism for providing incentives in order to make small and medium enterprise effective and provide support for the same
• Provide support to industry, in particular. To manufacturing industry to ensure compliance with environmental protection requirements
• Encourage the establishment of industrial, sectorial and professional associations, and strengthen those already established 
• The powers and duties entrusted to the Ministry of Trade and Industry under other laws that are currently in force with respect to industry are hereby vested in the Ministry of Industry established by this Proclamation.

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