Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia

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.

Project symbol

ETH/17/01/MUL

Admin unit

CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

21/12/2017

End date

30/06/2025

Total allocation

11688141

Total expenditure

Status

Active

10959785

Development Partners

United Kingdom, Department for International Development
Multi-donor funding to the Vision Zero Fund
Multi-donor support for Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia
United Nations Development Programme
Multi donor Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) & Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
Multi-donor support for Better Work

Country/Countries

Ethiopia

Outcomes

Outcome 4: Sustainable enterprises for inclusive growth and decent work
Outcome 6: Protection at work for all