Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia

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ETH/17/01/MUL Africa Ethiopia UNDP Multi Donor United Kingdom In progress

Description

This intervention is a comprehensive and coordinated ILO response to a need expressed by the Ethiopian constituents and other key industry stakeholders to advance decent work and inclusive industrialization in key priority sectors identi-fied in the Second Ethiopian Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II). A commitment to the textile and garment sector is part of Ethiopia’s broad Industrial Development Strategic Plan (2013-2025) to propel the country to middle-income status over the next decade. There are significant challenges for Ethiopia to overcome as they strive to achieve this plan. Productivity in the sector is low, and low productivity is often associated with low wages and poor working conditions making the sector less desira-ble for workers. High labour turn-over rates and absentee rates perpetuate and compound these challenges. The support-ing value chains are also challenged by low productivity and decent work deficits. The intervention will be implemented in two five-year phases. The first phase will focus on the textile and apparel sector. In the second phase, the ILO’s support will be expanded further down the supply chain to include cotton production and processing. The intention is to also develop and refine intervention models that could be replicated in other sectors such as construction and agriculture to potentially also move into these sectors in phase two. In addition, the intervention will maintain close links to ILO’s ongoing support efforts to the implementation of the government’s Jobs Compact which will expand employment opportunities to refugees, including in identified industrial sectors, among them textile and ap-parel. The intervention will contribute to Outcome 1, 4 and 7 of the ILO’s 2018-19 Programme and Budget and to the Decent Work Country Programme outcomes ETH127 and ETH176.

SDG

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Goals
  • Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
  • Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
  • Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
  • Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

Time

21.12.2017 - 31.12.2025
 

Budget

9,641,984 / 10,993,167 Development Cooperation
 
28.03.2024