A major pact, to source, recruit and train 30,000 textile and garment workers for the newly inaugurated Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia, has been inked by Enterprise Partners, Trade and Industry Bureau of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute, and the Tenants’ Association. The project will also reportedly undertake sourcing process-informing, registering, orienting and pre-selecting a total of 60,000 job seekers (80 per cent women) over the next two and a half years from potential recruitment areas within SNNPR.
“Hawassa Industrial Park is about Ethiopia’s industrialization drive that is creating a prototype foundation in a system that can be scaled up across the country. To increase employees’ productivity, identifying, developing and training them is vital,” avers Nebil Kellow, MD, Enterprise Partners.
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The agreement, which will commence training from the month of September this year, aims to control current high labour turnover through effective synchronization of expectation between the new recruits and the factories.
“The project poses an admirable example of public-private partnership which ensures smooth integration of new textile and apparel investments into Hawassa Industrial Park,” states Tadesse Haile, Industry State Minister of Ethiopia, adding, “The industries in Hawassa will have to roll up their sleeves to become efficient and competitive by shortening the learning curb to be successful in the global market and the best practice achieved through this program will be simulated to other pipelined industrial parks. All signatories and stakeholders endeavour for the successful implementation of the project.”
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