Ethiopia Women Entrepreneurship Development Project

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.