Ethiopia

<p>PIGA is a partnership of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland&rsquo;s Department for International Development (DFID), China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund), China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and the International Trade Centre (ITC).</p><p>Under this partnership, DFID, CADFund, CCPIT and ITC deliver together a project to increase investment-led exports and local development in two productive sectors, agro-processing and light manufacturing.</p><p>PIGA was officially launched on 22 October 2015 in London, on the sidelines of Chinese President Xi Jinping&rsquo;s state visit to the UK. PIGA, is a component of Invest Africa, a large DFID programme linking private sector investors, buyers, financiers and governments in several African countries to boost manufacturing and create jobs by increasing foreign direct investment (FDI).</p><p>PROJECT GOAL<span>&nbsp;</span><br>To increased exports, jobs and local development through foreign investments and business partnerships in agro-processing and light manufacturing sectors in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia.<span>&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p><p>To achieve the project goal, the PIGA main phase activities are:</p><p>Facilitate and generate business partnerships between African and Chinese companies <br>-Organizing B2B events, investment awareness seminars and visits of Chinese investors to Africa <br>-Building capacities of African companies to receive FDI and technology transfer <br>-Promote linkages between investors and local suppliers <br><br>Strengthen capacities to deliver investment services <br>-Improve Trade and investment support institutions&rsquo; (TISI) investment promotion services <br>-Develop investment guides and online investment information platforms for foreign investors <br>-Improve TISIs effectiveness in measuring and monitoring FDI <br><br>Overcome obstacles to FDI and enable knowledge shared (UK-China-Africa) <br>-Conduct public-private roundtables at national level to address reported challenges by investors <br>-Organize Investment Business Summits and workshop for experience and knowledge sharing <br><br></p><p><br></p>

<p>The SheTrades Coffee project contributes directly to the Empowering Women to Trade (EWT) Programme, which delivers on ITC&rsquo;s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Global Goal 5 (achieving gender equality and empowering women) and Global Goal 8 (inclusive and sustainable economic growth) through delivering results via one of ITC&rsquo;s key initiatives &ndash; SheTrades. The SheTrades initiative is a key initiative under ITC`s Inclusive and Sustainable Trade focus area (5). This project contributes to this key initiative through providing training and market opportunities to women entrepreneurs to help them benefit directly from trade.</p><p>The objective of the SheTrades Coffee project is to to increase the participation in trade of women entrepreneurs in the Ethiopian and Rwandan coffee sectors, continuing on from the 2018 SheTrades Coffee project. Responding directly to the EWT Theory of Change (ToC) and programme outcome of increasing the participation of women entrepreneurs in international trade, the SheTrades Coffee project will increase the skills and capabilities of women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and Rwanda through improving coffee production, processing, quality, strengthening coffee associations, and establishing long-term relationships with partners and buyers.&nbsp;</p><p>During 2018, the flow of implementation of project activities was significantly impacted because of a change in management personnel with the project partner. The new managers changed the overall approach to the way they worked which meant there were some positive adjustments necessary to the project implementation; the time taken for the necessary discussions with the project partner for the adjustments, meant the full target numbers of farmers could not be reached before the end of the project time frame. The approach agreed upon was to:&nbsp;</p><ol start="1" type="1"><li>Select washing stations and conduct a baseline survey / needs assessment of the stations themselves and supplier / farmers</li><li>Register farmers and create Producer Organisations, with emphasis on empowerment of women</li><li>Build the capacity of the partner washing stations, working with farming families on gender empowerment and put in place internal control systems (ICS) as a pre-cursor to certification.</li></ol><p>Steps 1 and 2 were reached before the end of 2018, however it became necessary to extend the completion milestone for point 3 into 2019. This work complements similar, broader work that will be delivered in Rwanda under the MARKUP project from 2019 onwards.&nbsp;</p>

<p style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>The International Trade Centre&rsquo;s #FastTrackTech project is harnessing the transformative power of the digital economy to generate jobs and contribute to the economic growth and productivity in seven African countries.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>ITC is working with tech startups and digital entrepreneurs in Benin, C&ocirc;te d&rsquo;Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia, equipping them with digital and managerial skills as they establish their businesses, grow, and export their services.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>Digital entrepreneurs across the continent are accelerating the digital transformation of Africa, a key driver to strengthening economies and implementing Sustainable Development Goals such as quality education, gender equality, decent work and economic growth. Successful digital entrepreneurship also benefits young innovators and helps close the digital gender gap.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom: 7.5pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span lang="EN-GB" style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#333333;mso-ansi-language: EN-GB'>#FastTrackTech works with local tech hubs to build tech start-ups&rsquo; capacity to scale their business and equip aspiring entrepreneurs with digital skills. The project started in 2019 and is expected to continue in 2022-2023 with a stronger emphasis on policy change, digitalization of traditional sectors, ecosystem coordination, and an increased focus on high-potential startups.</span></p><p><br></p>

<p>Supporting Indian Trade and Investment for Africa (SITA) is a South-South Trade and Investment Cooperation Programme. It is the United Kingdom&rsquo;s (FCDO) first Aid-for-Trade initiative in Triangular Cooperation. Implemented by the International Trade Centre (ITC), SITA has facilitated USD 60 million of additional trade and USD 111 million of investment between SMEs in India and five East African countries &ndash; Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. SITA delivers durable impact by developing productive and technical capacities, generating jobs, enabling technology and knowledge transfer, and creating networks between business support institutions. The programme focuses on empowering women and youth in sectors as diverse as high-value agriculture and light manufacturing, while environmental compliance and climate-smart practices underpin SITA&rsquo;s economic outcomes.</p>

<p>Clothing is one of the largest industries in the world economy employing 60 to 75 million people worldwide. The negative social and environmental impacts of the fashion industry have been well documented, demonstrating that these impacts mostly occur within the upstream portion of the value chain. Improving traceability is a priority in order to determine how and where parts and components in production processes have been sourced and what are the environmental, social and health risks in the value chain. The action will support enhanced transparency and traceability in garment value chains, through the development of an IT &apos;track and trace&apos; platform that offers customized and open self-assessment and data sharing solutions for value chain stakeholders. Alongside the implementation of this platform, ITC will deliver a training and continuous improvement programme and, in collaboration with private sector partners, implement in a subset of textile and garment oriented countries.</p>

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">This project is designed to implement selected activities of the COMESA Cross Border Trade Initiative (CBTI) programme, which aimed at facilitating small-scale trade across borders of targeted countries. The initiative is funded by the European Commission under the 11^th European Development Fund. The project will be implemented within the framework of the Co-delegation agreement signed between COMESA and ITC in June 2018.&nbsp;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The project has a general objective of increasing formal small-scale cross-border trade flows in the COMESA/tripartite region, leading to higher revenue collection for governments at targeted borders as well as increased security and higher incomes for small-scale cross-border traders. It has a specific objective of facilitating small-scale cross border trade flows between targeted countries through institutional capacity building and better data collection and monitoring.</span></p>