The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Technical Advisor: Access to Finance
The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Deputy Team Leader:
The "Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium Size Enterprises project (ECOS)" in Uganda aims to increase the competitiveness of 1,000 Ugandan SMEs with the overall goal of creating employment and improving the employment situation of workers through increased income, secured jobs, and improved working conditions.
Tasks of the Team Leader:
The backbone of Ethiopia’s economy is agriculture. It provides employment for about 68% of the working population and represents over 30% of the country’s GDP. A central goal of the Ethiopian Government is the structural transformation of the economy from low- to high productivity agriculture and industry. Hereby, the agricultural and food industry is considered to have great job creation and development potential. Nevertheless, the sector lacks productivity, innovative capacity, and investments that can trigger further economic growth and thus employment.
Sierra Leone is one of the least developed countries in the world. The Human Development Index 2019 ranks Sierra Leone 181 out of 189 countries. Although poverty is decreasing, it remains very high at 52% (2018), with more than 10% even living in
extreme poverty.
Agriculture and a diversified rural economy play a key role in the Ethiopian economy. Currently, agriculture employs about two-thirds of the total population and contributes about one-third of the gross domestic product (manufacturing industries about 25 %, service sector about 40 %). As a result of difficult access to technical and entrepreneurial advisory services, modern inputs, modern mechanisation and financing opportunities, most smallholder farmers in Ethiopia work with outdated technologies and are only marginally productive.
Agriculture and a diversified rural economy play a key role in the Ethiopian economy. Currently, agriculture employs about two-thirds of the total population and contributes about one-third of the gross domestic product (manufacturing industries about 25 %, service sector about 40 %). As a result of difficult access to technical and entrepreneurial advisory services, modern inputs, modern mechanisation and financing opportunities, most smallholder farmers in Ethiopia work with outdated technologies and are only marginally productive.
Agriculture and a diversified rural economy play a key role in the Ethiopian economy. Currently, agriculture employs about two-thirds of the total population and contributes about one-third of the gross domestic product (manufacturing industries about 25 %, service sector about 40 %). As a result of difficult access to technical and entrepreneurial advisory services, modern inputs, modern mechanisation and financing opportunities, most smallholder farmers in Ethiopia work with outdated technologies and are only marginally productive.
Following years of economic crisis, the Zimbabwean economy rebounded between 2009 and 2012 with an annual average GDP growth of 11%. Although deceleration started soon after, some good agricultural harvests in 2014 and 2017 as well as the hope of a political change have maintained a positive outlook at least up to the end of the ‘honeymoon period’ that followed the election of 2018.
Under the 11th European Development Fund, the European Union and Zimbabwe formulated the Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth Programme (ZAGP).
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