PEPE is a wealth-creation programme, which aims to stimulate investment in private enterprise in order to create jobs & increase household incomes for the poor. As Ethiopia grows towards middle-income status (targeted by 2025), PEPE’s emphasis is to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of Agro-Industrial sectors while improving the performance of the financial sector. PEPE, critically, works towards a growth that is inclusive of women & the environment, in line with the government’s plans.
PEPE, which runs from 2013-2020, is a £70m programme funded by DfID and implemented, in part[1], by a DAI-Europe led consortium which includes First Consult, ITAD, Enclude and BCaD from 2013-2020 in Ethiopia. The DAI-Europe led consortium for Enterprise Partners is £43 million contract.
Enterprise Partners (PEPE’s M4P pillar) aims to facilitate market development in four sectors in order to spur innovation and investment (20% green) by firms that create jobs (75% for women) & increase incomes of poor people. It uses a £15m grant fund in combination with technical assistance to facilitate markets, following the M4P[2] approach, which emphasises:0
· Resolving market failures: Through diagnostics, markets that are not working for the poor are identified and determined for feasibility to intervene. This includes the markets for goods, services, and labour. The improvements sought could be where the poor are as sellers (e.g. higher wages, better working terms/conditions, higher product margins, and increased sales volumes) or where they are buyers (e.g. lower prices, greater access and choice) in the transaction. Interventions are transaction-specific, and not across a value-chain spectrum.
· Facilitation: Enterprise Partners positively influences markets by working through partners. By providing innovations and grants to market actors to de-risk innovation/change, it aims to catalyse further investments in proven, bankable enterprise. This avoids distorting markets as a result of donor funds and promotes sustainability, but requires good understanding of the political economy (incentives) of actors in the sector (to identify the ‘catalysts’ and ‘scale agents’) as well as a disaggregation of the chosen transaction into supporting functions (e.g. information, skills) and rules (e.g. standards, regulations, norms). Intervening at this sub-level of the transaction enables the market change to be scalable and the impact sustainable.
Enterprise Partners’ supports the Cotton-Textile-Apparel, Livestock-Leather and Fruits & Vegetables sectors in the Agro-Industrials and Base of the Pyramid, SME and Large Enterprises in the Financials. In these sectors, Enterprise Partners targets the creation of 45,000 jobs and the improvement of 60,000 household incomes via the generation of £284m in investments by 2020.
The Strategic Communication Intern is responsible for supporting the Strategic Communications Team with the knowledge management, production and communication aspects of their work. The analyst reports to the SCT lead as part of the strategic communication team.
Support in producing reports and presentations
· Support the process of developing reports, case studies, website content as well as other internal and external communication materials.
· Support SCT team in developing templates for different technical and progress documents.
· Conduct preliminary research for different SCT documents and communication materials.
· Provide preliminary graphics design based on the inputs provided by team members.
· Draft documents for internal and external communication.
· Provide overall support for the SCT team.
[1] PEPE is a framework of DfID wealth creation projects, which includes Enterprise Partners, WEDP, Ethiopian Competitiveness Facility, Multi-Donor Trust Fund and IFC’s Investment Climate Program.
[2] Outlined in DfID’s and Swiss SDC’s ‘Operational Guide for the M4P approach’
· Bachelor’s degree in any relevant field.
· Excellent English and Amharic language written and spoken communication skills.
· Excellent organizational skills, analytical ability and people skills
· Strong grasp on message development. Ability to present information in visually appealing ways.
· Able to explore and propose different ways to convey information visually through design elements including the use of the narrative.
· Willing and able to learn and develop new skills.
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