Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , Location: Horn of Africa , Population: over 80,000,000 inhab

Official Name:Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Location:Horn of Africa, Population:over 80,000,000 inhabitants, Area:1,100,000 km2. Capital:Addis Ababa, known as "the political capital of Africa."

Ethiopian dishes Doro wot, Enjera, Raw meat and also special coffee ceremony with cultural dressing style. “Gursha” hand feeding to show love, care and appreciation.

Learn4Work – working in partnership: good practices of community based ‘off-farm – on-farm project in Ethiopia Expert meeting ‘Strengthening the agri-sector through skills development’ 3 – 5 October 2012

Session Outline: • General: • Ethiopia & TVET • L4W • Objective – L4W • Strategies – Establish partnership • Target Group • Core activities • Result based achievement • Lessons learnt • Challenges • Conclusion • Recommendations

General – Ethiopia & TVET • TVET has been one of the most neglected areas in Ethiopia back a decade • Since then the government formulated the strategy of TVET • Objective is to meet the middle-level human power demand of the industry, service sector and commercial agriculture .

Technical & Vocational Education & Training TVET Qualifications Framework

General cont… • The objective of the sector was designed to provide quality education and training • The formal curriculum was revised, skill upgrading training was given to TVET teachers. • There was also an intention to expand the non-formal technical and vocational training (NF-TVT) • However, this sub-section has been overlooked so that the dropouts and jobless poor have never used the opportunities.

General – Learn4Work • Cognizing this, EF & AERES group from North and Ethiopian partners took an initiative to look for other options for self employment – L4W. • Hence, the assignment of developing Community Based L4W was designed and implemented from July 2009 to June 2011 and an intensification phase was also designed and implemented from September 2011 to June 2012

General Objective - L4W The major objective of L4W project was to improve access to good quality non formal technical and vocational training and education in six selected marginalized rural areas to enable the target groups improve their livelihoods.

Strategies – Community Based L4W

Strategies • Establishing strong partnership with different stakeholders • Advocating for the need of market information and demand oriented skills provision as well as access to MFIs;

Established Partnership Development Organizations Knowledge Based Institutions Partnership Labour Market Actors Government Stakeholder

Who - Target? • Destitute women & unemployed youths • Age 14 – 25 • 2,619 (75% female) direct and 12,623 indirect

Core activities (Components) • Career and Technical Education Component • Life Long Learning Component • Functional Literacy • Life Skill /add on component • Local newsletter • Vocational skills training • Basicbusinessskills • Market information • Professional Development Component • Partnership & networking • Linking the community with MFI • Rural Entrepreneurship

Result based achievement • Results • Result 1: Improved 60% livelihoods of 2,619 poor youths (target groups) through application of community based training approach in and around six selected areas by the end of the project period; Achievements • 70 % of the trainees (as registered by partners) engaged in income generating activities Stimulate others to “take the leap”

…result based achievement • Results • Result 2: Increased 50 percent of skills of target trainees to assess, collect and analyze feasible businesses market information by the end of the project period; Achievements • Increased the skills of 30% trainees on data gathering and analysis on market assessment

…result based achievement • Results • Result 3: Enabled 75 % of target groups actively engaged in integrated literacy, vocational skill and market dialogue by the end of the project period; Achievements • 60 % of trainees applied integrated functional adult literacy (IFAL) as assessed through supervision of DEC and partners

…result based achievement • Results • Result 4: Established a network to strengthen collaboration and partnership among appropriate technology promoters, Formal TVET Colleges, Research Institutes, Private MFI, Local Government Sectors and Volunteers in each project area to make them contribute their professional inputs for poverty reduction in the second year of the project; Achievements • Enhanced collaboration and partnership in all project districts through volunteerism

…result based achievement • Results • Result 5: Capacitated at least 70 % of target groups to link them with local MFI for accessing to start-up capital • Result 6: Developed the leadership capacity of partner organizations (NGOs) operating in the target areas by the end of the project Achievements • Over 70% of trainees capacitated by the training on linking to MFI • Improved the management capacity of all CLTC leadership as interview results revealed.

Lessons Learnt! • Enabling the poor to be productive citizens (….were the poorest of the poor who couldn’t access to generate income; however, majority of them began generating their own incomes.) • Linking traditional handicrafts with modern vocational skills training • Using dialogue to identify and solve social problems

Challenges • Change of demand for marketable skills • Long process to link the trainees to MFIs • Lack of initial capital for the trained beneficiaries

Conclusions • To put everything in a nut shell, the L4W project has proved that basic vocational skills training is a vital part of skills needed to reduce poverty in Ethiopia. • In the implementation of the project, the community has been participated from the initial, government bodies have been closely supporting the project and new integration between on-farm and off-farm activities existed. All the planned activities have been undertaken as scheduled and the outlook of all local people on vocational skills is favorably changing. • The minds of majority of graduates changed positively and so engaged in their own businesses. Generally, the project was successful and implemented as planned

Recommendations • Setting appropriate indicators • Modification of Monitoring Protocol format • Improving experience sharing system

›ScÓ“KG< Galatoomaa Thank you

Q & A AsefashKetema asefashk@decethiopia.org www.decethiopia.org

Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia , Location: Horn of Africa , Population: over 80,000,000 inhab