Waste Economy in Ethiopia: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward
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Waste Economy in Ethiopia: Challenges, Opportunities and the Way Forward
THE BRIDGES PROGAMME
Summary
This paper delves into the challenges and opportunity of the waste economy. It shows best practices globally while emphasizing on the importance of small and medium enterprises in Ethiopia.
Year
2024
Pages
12
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0.98mb
Creating Jobs for Young Women Can Be Challenging but Doable: A Mixed Approach
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Creating Jobs for Young Women Can Be Challenging but Doable: A Mixed Approach
THE BRIDGES PROGAMME
Summary
This article highlights the BRIDGES Programme's innovative approaches to creating jobs for young women, from preparing them for industrial park employment to designing flexible home-based work models, authored by Enterprise Development Lead, Semir Mohammednur.
Year
2024
Pages
9
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Size
628kb
ACCESS TO FINANCE CHALLENGES FACED BY MICRO, SMALL, AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES (MSMES) IN ETHIOPIA
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Access to finance challenges faced by micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Ethiopia: A demand side diagnostic study
THE BRIDGES PROGAMME
Summary
This paper estimates the financing gap of MSMEs at the country level by calculating the demand and supply of finance for MSMEs. In addition, the reasons for demanding finance by MSMEs are analyzed in line with the challenges they experience in accessing finance.
Year
2024
Pages
9
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628kb
From Theory to Practice: The Effect of Business Development Services on Enterprises
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From Theory to Practice: The Effect of Business Development Services on Enterprises
December, 2024
Summary
This rapid assessment sampled 67 enterprises that received a 2-day business development service (BDS) training and post-training follow-up in order to understand the change in practice within the enterprises following the trainings.
Year
2024
Pages
9
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628kb
What is a Psychosocial Support Service?
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What is a Psychosocial Support Service?
February, 2024
Summary
The document presents the MESMER Programme’s approach to addressing mental health challenges among micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in conflict-affected regions of Ethiopia through the integration of psychosocial support services. It highlights key findings from a 2023 assessment, which revealed high levels of psychological distress and limited access to support, and outlines targeted interventions, such as awareness-raising, mental health screening, and group counselling, that resulted in a significant reduction in PTSD symptoms.
Year
2024
Pages
9
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628kb
Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Programming
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Monitoring and Evaluation in Development Programming
The Quest to Harness 718,000 Jobs
A Series from the BRIDGES Knowledge Compendium
Authored by Robel Daniel, BRIDGES MERL Lead
Summary
This article reflects on monitoring and evaluation, sharing lessons learned from tracking 530,000 youth jobs. From defining "jobs" across sectors to building a scalable data system, the insights provide practical strategies for effective programme evaluation, authored by BRIDGES Programme (2019–2024) MERL Lead, Robel Daniel.
Year
2019 - 2024
Pages
14
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4,622 kb
EnterpRISING WOMEN: A DECADE OF LEARNING FROM ETHIOPIA’S WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (WEDP)
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EnterpRISING WOMEN: A DECADE OF LEARNING FROM ETHIOPIA’S WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (WEDP)
WEDP Learning, March 2024
Summary
This Results Brief is a product of the World Bank Africa Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) and Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation (FCI) Global Practice. The authors would like to thank Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and the World Bank’s umbrella Facility for Gender Equality (UFGE) for funding. We thank the Ethiopian Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE), Yohannes Solomon, Tsedey Asheber, Yemsrach Kinfe, Tewodros Tassew, Mengistu Bessir, Salman Alibhai, Francesco Strobbe, Rachel Coleman, Kenno Itana, Assefa Abba and Abraham Hailemariam for their contributions to WEDP over the years. We also thank Sakina Shibuya and Rajdev Brar for excellent research assistance and numerous partners who supported the research in Ethiopia. The Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) conducts impact evaluations of development interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa, seeking to generate evidence on how to close gender gaps in earnings, productivity, assets, and agency. The impact objective of GIL is increasing takeup of effective policies by governments, development organizations, and the private sector to address the underlying causes of gender inequality in Africa, particularly in terms of women’s economic and social empowerment.
The Lab aims to do this by producing and delivering a new body of evidence and developing a compelling narrative, geared towards policymakers, on what works and what does not work in promoting gender equality.
Year
2024
Pages
8
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3,725kb
The Context - The Evolution of Money and Finance in Ethiopia
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The Context - Issue 5
Knowledge and insights from our development initiatives and partnerships
The Evolution of money and Finance in Ethiopia
Year
2025
Pages
10
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3.6mb
Business Development Services (BDS) Officer
Fitrstuser
Project Type: Ongoing project
Deadline: 28-03-2025
Location: Addis Ababa
The BDS Officer will be responsible for coordinating, planning, organizing and implementing the business development services within the MESMER programme. The primary purpose of this role is to enhance the capacity of MSMEs involved in the MESMER program through online and face-to-face delivery mechanisms including coaching and mentoring. The BDS officer will support MSMEs including group BDS training, business coaching and advisory services, creation of market opportunity as well as other need based supports.
Duties and Responsiblities
- Provide technical leadership and oversight, to ensure the integration of Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion approaches across programme activities.
- Lead and use Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion assessment and analysis to inform integration strategies that target and engage youth, women, and marginalized groups in all programme activities.
- Lead the development and implementation of the programme’s Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment and Social inclusion strategy and action plan, including the adaptation and development of tools and approaches to support the strategy and action plan.
- Lead implementation of strategies aiming to maximize women and youth targeting as well as other marginalized groups such as PWDs IDPs and returnees.
- Develop and implement gender-sensitive and inclusive programme processes, incorporating tailored promotion methods, eligibility criteria, requirements, and service provision mechanisms that ensure equitable access and participation for women, youth, people with disabilities, IDPs, and returnees.
- Support and provide guidance for psychosocial services programme implementation and related M&E activities.
- Closely work with regional investment committees of the programme to integrate gender and youth focus as well as targeting of marginalized groups such as people with disabilities returnees and IDPs.
- Work with the team lead and senior project management to deliver capacity-building workshops/trainings for programme staff, partners, and other stakeholders crafting and adapting content to enhance understanding and integration of gender, youth, and social inclusion in programme activities.
- Identify target groups through social assessments, partnering with relevant stakeholders and ensure participatory approaches are used and social mapping is conducted and that the involved stakeholders understand the importance of such initiatives.
- Foster collaboration with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private partners specializing in gender, youth, and social inclusion to leverage their expertise.
- Closely collaborate with the focal of funders to ensure that all requirements are met and passed over to the programme team.
- Facilitate training and develop and/or adapt training content.
- Support the integration of Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion in program activities and work plan, review IGs and comment on the strategies to mainstream gender, youth and social inclusions.
- Work closely with the M&E team to integrate Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion s indicators into the M&E plan, frameworks, and reports ensuring the collection, analysis, and use of sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.
- Support the development and tracking of specific indicators to monitor progress toward GYSI goals across all programme’s and data collection processes.
- Support the project partners in mainstreaming Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion in their policies, management systems and programmes and provide training and education in implementing the policies.
- Lead the assessment for the project, including desk review, coordination with all stakeholders, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and report writing.
- Perform any other duties as may be required by him/her immediate supervisor.
Job requirements
- High adaptability – the ability to work with a large range of actors including institutional donors and partners and to develop an understanding of various contexts.
- High attention to detail in reviewing and inputting reports, proposals and other documents.
- Advanced interpersonal skills and good pedagogy to support staff in ensuring compliance with donor requirements
Education
Experience
- Proven experience in business development, especially working with MSMEs
- 2 to 5 years of experience in coordinating and delivering business development services
- Experience in providing business counselling, training and advisory services
Skills
- Good interpersonal skills and a good team player
- Strong command of English and Amharic
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capacities – the ability to identify issues with contractual implications, ensure consistent donor reporting and support teams in providing appropriate analyses of activities.
- Advanced interpersonal skills and good pedagogy to support staff in ensuring compliance with donor requirements
- Good proficiency in Microsoft Office – significant experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Advisor
Fitrstuser
Project Type: Ongoing project
Deadline: 14-03-2025
Location: Addis Ababa
The Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion Advisor will be responsible for ensuring the overall project’s inclusivity with a special focus on gender, youth, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups of the community. Inclusivity and women empowerment is at the core of the programme and the incumbent is responsible to provide leadership, technical guidance and oversight to ensure gender issues, youth voices and social inclusion are effectively integrated in programme’s design, implementation, and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) activities and shared across all stakeholders. The programme aims intentional targeting of women, youth and other marginalized group and the incumbent shall devise evidence-based strategies, lead creation of partnerships and collaborations with other stakeholders to ensure inclusivity objectives of the programme is achieved. Additionally, the incumbent will focus on capacity building and the development of appropriate integration tools to effectively incorporate gender, youth, and social inclusion considerations across all programme activities. Moreover, the incumbent will design and lead implementation of psychosocial services to targeted enterprises operating in conflict affected areas to support recovery and residence of enterprises affected by conflict and other natural disasters.
Duties and Responsiblities
- Provide technical leadership and oversight, to ensure the integration of Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion approaches across programme activities.
- Lead and use Gender, Youth, and Social Inclusion assessment and analysis to inform integration strategies that target and engage youth, women, and marginalized groups in all programme activities.
- Lead the development and implementation of the programme’s Gender Equality, Women’s Empowerment and Social inclusion strategy and action plan, including the adaptation and development of tools and approaches to support the strategy and action plan.
- Lead implementation of strategies aiming to maximize women and youth targeting as well as other marginalized groups such as PWDs IDPs and returnees.
- Develop and implement gender-sensitive and inclusive programme processes, incorporating tailored promotion methods, eligibility criteria, requirements, and service provision mechanisms that ensure equitable access and participation for women, youth, people with disabilities, IDPs, and returnees.
- Support and provide guidance for psychosocial services programme implementation and related M&E activities.
- Closely work with regional investment committees of the programme to integrate gender and youth focus as well as targeting of marginalized groups such as people with disabilities returnees and IDPs.
- Work with the team lead and senior project management to deliver capacity-building workshops/trainings for programme staff, partners, and other stakeholders crafting and adapting content to enhance understanding and integration of gender, youth, and social inclusion in programme activities.
- Identify target groups through social assessments, partnering with relevant stakeholders and ensure participatory approaches are used and social mapping is conducted and that the involved stakeholders understand the importance of such initiatives.
- Foster collaboration with local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private partners specializing in gender, youth, and social inclusion to leverage their expertise.
- Closely collaborate with the focal of funders to ensure that all requirements are met and passed over to the programme team.
- Facilitate training and develop and/or adapt training content.
- Support the integration of Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion in program activities and work plan, review IGs and comment on the strategies to mainstream gender, youth and social inclusions.
- Work closely with the M&E team to integrate Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion s indicators into the M&E plan, frameworks, and reports ensuring the collection, analysis, and use of sex-, age-, and disability-disaggregated data.
- Support the development and tracking of specific indicators to monitor progress toward GYSI goals across all programme’s and data collection processes.
- Support the project partners in mainstreaming Gender, Youth and Social Inclusion in their policies, management systems and programmes and provide training and education in implementing the policies.
- Lead the assessment for the project, including desk review, coordination with all stakeholders, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and report writing.
- Perform any other duties as may be required by him/her immediate supervisor.
Job requirements
- High adaptability – the ability to work with a large range of actors including institutional donors and partners and to develop an understanding of various contexts.
- Advanced interpersonal skills and good pedagogy to support staff in ensuring compliance with donor requirements.
Education
Experience
Skills
- Proven skills in proposal writing, project designing, and report writing.
- Familiarity with major donor rules and regulations
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capacities – the ability to identify issues with contractual implications, ensure consistent donor reporting and support teams in providing appropriate analyses of activities.