📋 Tender Overview
Projects ID: 220032
Project Manager: Andrea DE MARCO
Gender Marker: 2B (GE/women's empowerment is main focus)
Start: Jul 1 2022
End: Nov 17 2026
Description
As a follow-up to the official request received from the Ethiopian Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS) of Ethiopia, the proposed initiative aims at scaling up the support to the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in providing integrated services to youth and women for upgrading design capacities, promoting products# development with innovative mindset, and fostering public private partnership (PPP) engagements through start-up creation. The project will focus on providing, in close coordination with MoLS, ad hoc technical services to local young talents (especially women-owned enterprises, operating in design, leather, fashion, textile, eco-tourism, coffee sectors etc.), by applying UNIDO#s relevant methodologies (e.g. design for development, acceleration services, etc.); products design and development, marketing activity and diversification of services, such as fab-lab, hub with IT and digital services provision. The initiative will apply the lessons learned by the Creative Hub Addis Ababa (established by UNIDO project ID 150201 financed by AICS).
