Dear Ethiopia,

Green, gold and red, with a star of unity on a disc of blue. You are one of the oldest nations on earth, and almost all of your electricity already comes from water, wind and sun.

Think of what you have already built. The IMF approved a $3.4 billion programme in July 2024, and by July 2026 had disbursed about $2.6 billion of it. The World Bank added $1 billion for reforms in 2025, $424 million to connect homes and towns to the grid, and $200 million for a safety net that gives six million people short-term work.

At home the work has begun. Sixty-one in every hundred of you live above $3.00 a day. The birr now floats freely, your debts are being restructured, and the economy has opened to investment as never before.

The work ahead is plain, and it is worth saying plainly. Only seven in every hundred of you cook with clean fuel. Only eight in every hundred of you have a safely managed toilet at home. At the last count, in 2015, ninety in every hundred of your children reached the end of primary school unable to read a simple text. Clean energy sets your Coverage today, at 7 out of 100, with shelter and reading close behind. Each of them is within your reach.

Now imagine that same resolve turned toward every home in the country. Picture Perfect Ethiopia: a morning when every family cooks with clean fuel and sits down to a full table; when every tap runs clean and every home has a safe toilet; when every child walks to a school where a teacher is waiting, and reads with ease by the age of ten; when every mother lives within reach of a clinic with the lights on, and every young person finds work that pays. And no Ethiopian falls below a decent life, because the nation has decided that none will.

None of this needs a miracle. It needs what you already own: your rivers, your highlands, your clean power, your farms and the largest young workforce in East Africa. They are assets no balance sheet counts, and together they can carry every Ethiopian to food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and a livelihood.

“Your rivers already light the nation. Now let them light a clean stove in every Ethiopian kitchen.”

So this is an invitation. Bring your vision, your story and your solutions to the Perfect Ethiopia Design Studio, and join the Co-designers who are already imagining what comes next. Perfect Ethiopia will not be designed for you. It will be designed by you.