ecbp Capacity Development in Value Chain Promotion

The Engineering Capacity Building Program (ecbp) is organizing the 1st Training Seminar, from August 7th to 11th, concerning the methodology of Value Chain promotion in Ethiopia focused on the Development of the leather sector and its Value Chains

This seminar addresses the Value Chain promoters and its partners including representatives from 6 regions, so as to constitute the future core group of chain experts in Ethiopia. It aims at providing an overview of the essential concept and methodology of a value chain promotion approach in development assistance and its direct action oriented application including the planning of the next implementation steps. It follows an interactive method, in which the presentation of concepts, facts and methodology alternates with exercises to apply the tools to real world situations, participants are involved in. 

The competitiveness of a national economy is not only a question of the entrepreneurial and technical capability of individual enterprises. It is the combination of favourable conditions that allows enterprises to grow and to get more competitive.

The Value Chain, as part of the Private Sector, is one of the key ideas of ecbp. ecbp considers the private sector to be the catalyst of development and will promote it through reform of the technical and vocational training system, including non-formal education as well as reform of universities’ technical faculties, and by strengthening quality management and production standards.

ecbp is an Ethiopian program to improve competitiveness and promote employment; therefore Ethiopian media could support this program by giving awareness of it.