Ethiopia Women Entrepreneurship Development Project

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

I Inactive

Key Information

The development objective of Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP) for Ethiopia is to increase the earnings and employment of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) owned or partly owned by participating female entrepreneurs in the targeted cities. The restructuring introduces the following changes : (i) modifications to the institutional arrangements, to better reflect the actual activities of implementers at the local level; (ii) modifications to the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework, to revise targets for five indicators and modify wording for one indicator; and (iii) removal of some sub-activities which have limited relevance to project outcomes and limited manpower and financial resources to be implemented.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Ethiopia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2012 - 2021

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ethiopia Ministry of Finance

Funder(s)

International Development Association (IDA)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Vocational training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

Not applicable or unknown

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Reducing economic barriers

  • Income-generating activities
  • Microcredit

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

Not applicable or unknown

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being