The programme, with a budget of €1 million, aims at promoting entrepreneurial development and employment opportunities for women in the leather sector, enhancing entrepreneurial skills, and strengthening market linkages and networking opportunities, it said in a statement.
The two countries also signed another deal on building labour market intermediation that supports economic transformation in Ethiopia. With a grant of €4 million, the overall objective of the project is to improve labour market outcomes for the rural population in the country by building effective public employment services, according to a report in an Ethiopian newspaper.
The project aims to establish pilot rural job centers in three regions of the country providing services to vulnerable job seekers.
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