Background: MEDA/EMERTA Project
MEDA (Mennonite Economic Development Associates) is an organization dedicated to creating business solutions to poverty. MEDA’s Global Affairs Canada-funded EMERTA project (meaning leaping to a great height in Amharic) has the objective of contributing to increased income and employment opportunities for entrepreneurs and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) focusing on three value chains: rice, vegetables and gemstones.
In the rice sector, MEDA is committed to support MSMEs (rice processors/traders) to improve the business performance and enhance competitiveness through building technical capacity and creating access to finance. One of the key factors that help to improve competitiveness of rice processors in the market is efficient production of improved quality milled rice. To realize this, building MSMEs knowledge and upgrading their skills on quality processing of rice is crucial.
Among other rice value addition interventions, processing/milling function is highly contributing for quality deterioration problems. This is due to various factors such as: the type of processing machines commonly used are old models with poor quality and less efficiency, many of the machines in use are not timely maintained, spare parts are not periodically replaced, machines are operated with unskilled labor, knowledge of machine operation and maintenance is limited and the like.
As a result, the quality of locally processed rice is often substandard which makes it difficult for the local rice to compete with the imported ones. To this purpose, the project plans to organize a training to support rice processing business owners improve their knowledge and skills of machine operation, processing techniques and maintenance. The training is targeted for 50 rice machine operators pulled from Fogera, Libokemkem and Dera Woredas of South Gondor Zone, Amhara Region.
In pursuit of the above, MEDA requires the services of a qualified rice processing machine operation and maintenance trainer.
The training aims to equip rice processing business owners and their machine operators with enough knowledge and skills on better ways of processing rice and properly maintaining the machines. The training will help to improve the quality of processed rice and pave ways for processors to start supplying table grade quality rice to the market. More specifically the training aims:
Expected results of the training
Scope of work
The consultancy task is expected to achieve the following activities:
Venue and Date
The training will be conducted in Woreta town of South Gondor Zone, tentatively from October 05-10,2019 for six days.
Required competencies
The consultants /trainer must have:
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