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Coverage of maternal and neonatal health (MNH) interventions has remained very low in Ethiopia. We examined the cost-effectiveness of selected MNH interventions in an Ethiopian setting. We analysed 13 case management and preventive MNH interventions. For all interventions, we used an ingredients-based approach for cost estimation. We employed a static life table model to estimate the health impact of a 20% increase in intervention coverage relative to the baseline. We used disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) as the health outcome measure while costs were expressed in 2018 US$. Analyses were based on local epidemiological, demographic and cost data when available. Our finding shows that 12 out of the 13 interventions included in our analysis were highly cost-effective. Interventions targeting newborns such as neonatal resuscitation (institutional), kangaroo mother care and management of newborn sepsis with injectable antibiotics were the most cost-effective interventions with incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of US$7, US$8 and US$17 per DALY averted, respectively. Obstetric interventions (induction of labour, active management of third stage of labour, management of pre-eclampsia\/eclampsia and maternal sepsis, syphilis treatment and tetanus toxoid during pregnancy) and safe abortion cost between US$100 and US$300 per DALY averted. Calcium supplementation for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia prevention was the least cost-effective, with a cost per DALY of about US$3100. Many of the MNH interventions analysed were highly cost-effective, and this evidence can inform the ongoing essential health services package revision in Ethiopia. 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