The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) and the Master Card Foundation partnered to Support over 600,000 Young people to Engage in Inclusive and Dignified Work Opportunities in Agriculture.
ATI and Mastercard Foundation have announced the agriculture-focused Dignified Employment for Youth in Ethiopia (“ADEY”) Program to support over 600,000 young people to engage in inclusive and dignified work opportunities in the agriculture sector.
Young women to be engaged constitute 80 percent of the 600,000 youths, ATI said in a statement it sent to EBC News.
ADEY will enable new and sustained work opportunities by engaging young people in agricultural inputs and outputs marketing, value addition, agro-processing, livestock, irrigation and mechanization services, availing affordable access to finance, digital agriculture, and ensuring policy improvements.
The program also “aims to address youth unemployment by removing systemic barriers that hinder young people from accessing dignified and fulfilling work, and to increase the participation of young people in the agriculture labour market,” ATI noted.
While ADEY will be led by ATI, its implementation will be in carried out in different regions of the country in partnership with a consortium of organizations.