FACTORS AFFECTING THE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN MICRO ...

• Provide access to adequate TVET for all target groups in need of training, in order
to improve the capabilities of these target groups to make use of existing income
and employment opportunities.
• Create a dynamic entrepreneur group as a partner in the economic development
process thereby enhancing the contribution of the private sector to sustainable
economic growth
• Ensure ownership of all relevant stakeholders in the planning and implementation
of major policy fields, in particular TVET, the privatisation policy and MSE
promotion
• Relieve tied resources and enable the Government re-deploy its scarce resources
and the privatisation proceeds to higher priority sectors and poverty reduction
programs
The TVET and SME projects have been cooperating for the fulfilment of certain
objectives in the Ethio-German Cooperation of priority areas. In this connection, it can be
cited that the MSE project which is involved in BDS facilitation, networking and the
provision of capacity building support to public and private MSE promotional institutions
is working in close collaboration with the GTZ-TVET program which is involved in
system development, vocational school teachers training and assistance to Skills
Development Centres (SDCs).
The unemployed youth that benefits from the program intervention of TVET is finally
expected to join the private sector. Thus, there are various strings that connect the GTZ-
MSE Project and the TVET Program. The two programs collaborate in the inclusion of
CEFE training into the curriculum of the Skill Development Centres, and in the areas of
labour market information to prospective graduates of the Skill Development Centres.
While the GTZ-TVET program operates in the areas of skilled labour supply, the MSE
Project works with those institutions that promote MSE sector operators. Hence TVET
intervenes on the skilled labour supply side while the MSE Project works with the
potential employers (private business operators).
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