Please describe your proposed solution.

Prior to the couple of announcements from the central bank in Ethiopia a few weeks back, the blockchain community in Ethiopia was growing exponentially. These announcements were not an official statment from the central bank, but from one of the departments with was filled with very vague statements. After a few of us contacted the the central bank regarding clarification, they have conveyed an off the record statment that the contral bank's stance is not that which was implied on the statement. however, since the first statemetns were shared very widely in the news cycles it had created fear amoungst new memebrs.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

My Proposal is to simply retain a lawyer to get official statements from the central bank that refutes the first statement and share it among the wider audience as well as publish it to bring back the enthusiasm that existed before.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

Excessive beurucracy at the central bank that delays the process.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

September:

• Lawyer retainig
• Contating vcentral bank
• Publishing ans sharing of offical statments.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• Lawyer fees: $1500.00
• Publication and promotion of findings: $500.00

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Nebiyu Sultan

<https://www.linkedin.com/in/nebiyu-sultan-30775446/>

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

No further fund is required, this is a one-time awareness-raising project.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

• number of people made aware of the central bank's stance
• number of people made aware of the current legal status of crypto within Ethiopia.

What does success for this project look like?

The wider Ethiopian community will be made aware of the current stance of the Ethiopia government on crypto and how to operate within the legal bounds

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

New proposal