Advancing Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia (Phase II)

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 together with resent challenges of COVID-19 are making the sector less desira-ble for workers. High labour turn-over rates and absentee rates perpetuate and compound these challenges. The support in 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 2021-24 Programme and Budget and to the Decent Work Country Programme outcomes ETH127 and ETH176.

Project symbol

ETH/22/50/MUL

Admin unit

CO-Addis Ababa

Start date

08/12/2021

End date

30/06/2027

Total allocation

2171889

Total expenditure

Status

Active

1817867

Development Partners

Multi-donor support for Better Work

Country/Countries

Ethiopia

Outcomes

Outcome 2: Strong, representative and influential tripartite constituents and effective social dialogue
Outcome 6: Protection at work for all