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Stories behind our work: Industrious leaders in Ethiopia’s industrial parks

ILO Voices | Local economic development

We won’t need to beg for water anymore

Yasin Muhumad Faarah, an Ethiopian farmer, lost all his cattle in a recent drought. Without a regular supply of water, his future livelihood and that of other members of the community was in jeopardy. Together they built a water collection basin...

Message from the ProAgro Ethiopia Project Chief Technical Advisor

Technical Brief

Ethiopia Project Brief: Enhancing disaster resilience through employment-intensive waterworks in Kebribeyah and Jigjiga (April 2021-July...

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Comparative Study of Rapid Assessments of Reskilling and Upskilling Needs due to the Covid-19 Crisis

Leadership and organizational management training for the members of domestic workers associations

FAIRWAY in Ethiopia is supporting Mulu Tesfa Domestic Workers Association, the sole affiliate of International Domestic Workers Federation (IDWF) in Ethiopia, to strengthen its capacity to organize domestic workers including returnee migrant...

National TVET policies and systems in Ethiopia: Opportunities and issues in challenging times

This report provides a rigorous and systematic study on the national TVET policies and systems in Ethiopia. It identifies the key features of the TVET and skill system in Ethiopia, the challenges that confront it and the opportunities to address...

STED Strategic Skills Recommendations for the Agro-Processing Industry in Ethiopia

This sector skills strategy is intended for agro-processing industries that have the potential to create employment, generate export revenue and service growing domestic markets that would otherwise be serviced by imports. It focuses on the food,...

Sector Skills strategy for the Garment Sector in Ethiopia

This sector skills strategy is intended mainly for the garment-manufacturing sector and certain skills issues relating to the whole value chain, extending to the textile sector upstream and garment distribution and marketing downstream, are covered

Agro-Processing Sector Skills Committee: Operational Guide

TVET – industry linkage is very important in skills development, but this linkage is weak in Ethiopia. To bring the private sector at the centre for agro-processing establishing sector skills council (SSC) is one means to create ownership and...

Textile and Garments Sector Skills Committee - Operational Guide

TVET – industry linkage is very important in skills development, but this linkage is weak in Ethiopia. To bring the private sector at the centre for textile and garment establishing sector skills council (SSC) is one means to create ownership and...

Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Framework, Policy, Processes, and Procedures for the TVET Sector - Final Report

This report complements the existing assessment and certification arrangements in the TVET system and is consistent with both the National Qualification Framework and the government’s strategic direction for the TVET sector and skills development in...

SKILL-UP Ethiopia

Enhancing Youth Employability: Recognition of Prior Learning

This fact sheet explains how Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) is important for employability by recognising their skills. It shows the different purpose, stage and process in RPL implementation. It also explains who is responsible for RPL...

A Rapid Skills Assessment of Ethiopia’s Tourism Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This study assesses the upskilling and reskilling needs of the Ethiopian tourism sector following the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to identify the skills and labour deficiencies, shortages, and surpluses caused by the pandemic and the related...

Sector-wide strategy and action plan for the employment of persons with disabilities in the Ethiopian Garment and Textile Sector

The Sector-Wide Strategy was informed by a comprehensive baseline assessment, again conducted by the SKILL-UP Project, looking into the employability of persons with disabilities in the Ethiopian garment/textile sector by selecting four major...

Institutional review in preparation for improving access to TVET programmes for persons with disabilities who have been internally displaced

The institutional review is an assessment of appropriate intervention strategies to enable TVET centres to routinely accept and train youth with disabilities who are internally displaced

Prevocational entry-level core skills in Ethiopia’s garment industry - Trainer handbook

This trainer guide that accompanies the Prevocational Core Skills Programme for the garment and textile sector in Ethiopia was developed and designed in response to national research in Ethiopia that revealed that many Ethiopian workers in the...

Prevocational Entry-Level Core Skills Programme for the Garment Sector in Ethiopia – Learner Handbook

This Learner Handbook is designed to support this group of early school leavers, enabling them either to enter and retain employment or access further education and training for future employment. The Learner Handbook is largely pictorial and...

Core Skills Report

This study is an overview of existing core skills development programmes in Ethiopia.