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Two Donors Team Up to Create Jobs

Apr 17 , 2020

Korea’s International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have agreed to support the creation of jobs in Ethiopia, where urban unemployment is at 19pc and 25pc among the youth. The agreement was signed between Dong Ho Kim, country director for KOICA, and Turhan Saleh, UNDP resident representative, in April 2020. The agreement includes 3.3 million dollars from KOICA and a one-million-dollar contribution from UNDP to launch a five-year project focusing on supporting ICT-based business start-ups and SMEs. The project will also facilitate loan guarantee schemes for ICT based start-ups and SMEs to address their financial needs. Previously, UNDP launched the entrepreneurship development programme in 2013 in partnership with the Ministry of Urban Development & Housing and trained over 90,000 entrepreneurs and 32,000 SMEs in the country.

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CLEAN SWEEP

A young shoe shiner goes door to door, offering his services around the Stadium area. It is common in the capital to see young rural migrants engaged in physical labour, scraping change to send home. CHR Michelsen Institute (CMI) estimates that one out of three rural households has at least one family member migrating to cities. Extreme poverty and lack of access to farmland force many to look for better prospects in the city. Upward income mobility has remained stagnant over the last five years...

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WET CARRIAGE

A carriage around the Ayat area delivers water, as homes rarely access tap water in the area. Ethiopia has nine major rivers, and twelve big lakes, often called the water tower of Africa. However, UNICEF estimates that up to 80pc of communicable diseases in Ethiopia are due to a lack of access to safe water and sanitation. The second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of the population without access to potable water at 60pc, while the average daily consumptio...

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FRIENDLY SHOOT OUTS

Holiday activities at Jan Meda included penalty shoot outs for cash pay alongside other carnival games. The World Cup final in Qatar ended in penalty shoot outs this year, a global audience of 1.5 billion watched the spectacle. While the tournament's ending had stirred planetary awe, the death of 37 workers during the construction of the stadiums had given the games a sour taste early on. The tournament broke records of the biggest budget of more than 200 billion dollars and the most spectators...

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