SAP 160086
Mission Ethiopia: Regular missions to Modjo
Start of Contract (EOD): 1 February 2019
End of Contract (COB): 31 January 2020
Number of Working Days: 252 days
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is a Specialized Agency of the United Nations. Its mandate is to promote and accelerate sustainable industrial development in developing countries and economies in transition, and is to work towards improving living conditions in the world's poorest countries by drawing on its combined global resources,international and national expertise. This assignment will be under the supervision of the Agro-Industries Technology Division (PTC/AGR/AIT) part of the Agribusiness Development Department (PTC/AGR). ThisDivision is responsible for all technology aspects of the agro-based industries in textile, leather, wood and agriculturalmechanization systems. Emphasis is placed on the design and implementation of programmes serving sustainable development requirements of the agri-businesses and related industries,including its environmental needs to be developed by Governments, industries, private sector agencies, and NGOs targetingpoor communities to become more resilient. Furthermore, this Division also provides technical support to enhance demand-oriented vocational technical skills for employment creation and entrepreneurship for sustainable development.
PROJECT CONTEXT
This project is inserted within the EU Action Fiche “Leather Initiative for Sustainable Employment Creation (LISEC) in Ethiopia”[1]. The overall objective of the action is to create greater economic and decent employment opportunities, especially for young men and women through the development of the Ethiopian leather industry and the Modjo leather industrial park. LISEC's intervention logic is to contribute to the reduction of irregular migration from Ethiopia by creating greater economic and decent employment opportunities for young men and women through the development of Modjo Leather City Industrial Park and Ethiopian leather industry value chain, one of the sectors identified in the Ethiopian's Growth and Transformation Plan II (GTP II) as having the potential to boost the growth of the economy. As such, this programme proposes a new vision towards inclusive and sustainable industrial development that protects the environment and supports social inclusion. In order to achieve the main programme goal, LISEC has been structured following a comprehensive approach with three main components aiming at:
Advancing economic competitiveness by strengthening the leather value chain;
Protecting the environment by facilitating financial investments towards the establishment of an eco-friendly leather industrial park in Modjo; and Strengthening social cohesion by supporting local economic and social development initiatives, especially for women and youth living in Modjo area; and enhancing industrial and labor relations in the MLC.
These three interlinked components will be coordinated and monitored closely by the EUD under a centralized management approach. UNIDO in close collaboration with the MoTI and the Leather Industry Development Institute (LIDI) will implement component 1. UNIDO has been selected to implement this component due to its large experience in supporting the Ethiopian leather and leather products industry, its knowledge of national and regional leather institutions and its successful results on the sector.
The specific objective of the project is to enhance the economic competitiveness by strengthening an inclusive and sustainable development of the Ethiopian leather value chain. In this context, concrete actions will be undertaken in order to achieve the following outputs:
Output 1:
Output 2:
Output 3:
This project initiative is totally in line with the Ethiopian National Development Strategy and specifically with the GTP II supporting the transformation of the Ethiopian agriculture-based economy into an industrialized one, thus becoming a middle-income country by 2025. Furthermore, this project proposal has been articulated by in-taking some of the Valletta Action Plan (elaborated by EU in November 2015) priority areas, mainly:
In light of the above considerations, the position of the National Hides and Skins Expert, will be a locally recruited consultant with profound local experience and expertise required for the Project in terms of management and understanding of the hides and skins component of the leather value chain, with excellent knowledge of key institutional stakeholders involved in the project. Overall, he/she, as an impartial UNIDO Professional, has the direct responsibility for technically managing the implementation to achieve the expected project results, providing technical inputs and taking initiatives to fulfill the project strategy and methodology as well as the needs to sustain project outputs and impact. He/she will be responsible for coordination activities with the CTA and the National Project Coordinator, development partners and Government Institutions. He/she will be also responsible for monitoring activities, in particular for the preparation of reports and monitoring requirements as requested by the National Project Coordinator.
He/She will provide support the project in implementing activities related to the review and updating of the hides and skins regulatory framework as well as in its operationalization. He/she will provide technical support to development and implementation of a quality control grading system (technical capacity building, equipment provision, subsidized mechanism for grading system) as well as improving H & S extension services and skins collection.
The National Expert will be reporting the National Project Coordinator for the day-to-day activities relating to the project. Specifically he/she will be expected to:
Main Duties:
Expected Output:
Duration: 1 year
Location: Addis Ababa with regular (e.g. daily/ weekly) travels to Modjo (about 50 km from Addis Ababa)
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