policies, laws and strategies. In addition, the work of establishing units for environmental issues in sectoral institutions has now commenced.102 Administrative Measures The Government is committed to ensure that all citizens live in a clean and healthy environment. It has to make sure that the design and implementation of programs and projects for development do not damage or destroy the environment. In short, the Government and citizens, jointly, have the duty to protect the environment. With regard to issues of the environmental and climate change, the GTP‟s focus of attention is on building a green economy which will respond to climate change and provide for a system of control of emissions of pollutant gasses. In order to achieve this objective the plan lays down that action plans, strategies and laws should be designed and implemented to avoid the negative consequences of climate change or reduce its effects. In this connection, a Green Economy Strategy, a unique step in Ethiopia, has been prepared and is being executed. The strategy includes action plans that aim to achieve the building of an economy that can withstand the impact of climate change and create the environmental conditions necessary for the attainment of the goals of GTP. A Climate resilient green economy facility is being established in order to look for financial resources from domestic and foreign sources to achieve the objective of this strategy in line with international standards. Ethiopia has made significant progress in integrating the principle of sustainable development into the country‟s development policies and programs. In order to upgrade land and water resources, the Government has engaged in watershed management activities and environmental protection and rehabilitation programs, aimed at enhancing the country‟s water resources and at safeguarding these resources from pollution. Farmers voluntarily spent on average some 40 to 50 days working on soil and water conservation programs in 2011/12, covering approximately 8.5 million hectares of land throughout the country.103 In order to improve access to safe drinking water, the Government has undertaken several measures to increase national safe water coverage in the country from 52.12% in 2010/11 to 68.4% in 2012/13. During the same period, rural and urban water supply coverage increased from 48.85% to 102 Ethiopian national human right action plan P.160 103report 123