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Projects Map
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| Project : |
Employment & Income, Ethiopia |
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| Country : |
Ethiopia |
| Type : |
Development |
| Sector : |
Employment & Income |
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Project/Sector Name:
Employment & Income, Ethiopia
Partner(s):
Dorcas Aid International Ethiopia
Addis Ababa Mulu Wongel Believers' Church Relief & Development Office
Selam Awassa Business Group
Geographical Area:
Addis Ababa
Selam Awassa
Start Sector:
2004
Achievements Until Now:
More than 650 young people and marginalized women have been trained in several trades and have started income generating activities or have found a job. This has made a very positive on their lives and the lives of their families.
Target Group:
The target group of the woodworker's skills project in Addis Ababa consists of youth (18-25 yrs) from poor families and orphans lacking skills and employment opportunities. The intended beneficiaries for the other project in Addis Ababa are poor urban women, aged 20-50, who earn their income from the collection, transport by back loading, and sale of fuel-wood in Addis Ababa. In Selam Awassa the target group consists of unemployed youngsters who wish to develop their skills to work with metal and building electricity installation.
Problem Program Addresses:
Addis Ababa: Most orphans and unemployed youth from poor families lack schooling and skill training. The women targeted are poor and thereby have limited means to become self-supportive. As their economic situation improves they will be able to do more for their families.
Selam Awassa: prevalence of HIV/AIDS; high unemployment rates among youth.
Purpose:
To improve the income status of vulnerable youth through saving and income - expenditure management. To provide poor and disadvantaged youth with vocational skill training and assist them in finding a job, engaging them in income generating activities. To improve the livelihoods of poor and vulnerable women in the capital city by offering them alternative income generating activities. In Selam Awassa the know how of modern agricultural production is increased and as a result people have introduced agricultural mechanization. Also, non-agriculture employment is increased by offering specialized agro mechanical skills to young trainees.
Main Activities:
Addis Ababa: Organizing Self Help Groups (SHGs) and helping them to establish own rules and regulations. Provide counselling and training to community representatives on leadership skills and group management and on saving and credit management. Provide wood work training and other vocational skills trainings. Conduct experience sharing visit. Apprenticeship and job placement supported. Provide seed money for SHGs and provide tools for wood work trainees. Conduct weekly meetings for beneficiaries. Carry out disbursement of loans to the cluster level associations (CLAs). Conduct lobbying and advocacy for the wood carrying women.
Selam Awassa: Farmers get training on growing vegetables and use of agro mechanic equipment; students get training on working with metals (General mechanics and/or electricity); farmers get access to micro credits for financing agro mechanization; trainees from other institutions receive apprenticeship at the vocational training school; students receive courses on HIV/AIDS prevention. |
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