Small Scale Labour Market Assessment in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Case of Selected WISE Implementing Area

Academic Paper from the year 2022 in the subject Economics - Job market economics, Haramaya University (Peace and Development Studies), language: English, abstract: Understanding the labor market and company opportunities is critical for connecting job searchers to the workplace. As a result, the purpose of this survey was to evaluate the small-scale labor market in Addis Ababa's Lideta and Akaki sub-cities. The study's findings will include a detailed description of the main characteristics of Addis Ababa's labor market, including women's, men's, and returnees. The study will detail the structure and trends of employment and unemployment in Addis Ababa, with a focus on women and men who are unemployed. It will serve as a foundation for future programming in various intervention areas and will aid knowledge of critical aspects of the broader labor market situation, ranging from skill areas with market demand to the types of jobs available. The study aimed to identify key inputs for designing WISE initiatives in the labor market, capacity building, poverty reduction, and future employment, as well as an assessment of economic, social, and technical market growth factors. Finally, WISE expects the findings to serve as the cornerstone for the creation of market-relevant skill training provisions. The study has the following specific objectives: to provide a reliable overview of current labour market trends and a snapshot of business, as well as an overview assessment of economic, social, and technical drivers of market growth, to determine the relevance of skills training courses offered in WISE to market needs and to assess immediate needs of unemployed youth and/or graduate.

Megersa Tolera Abdi(1985 GC-) is a PhD fellow at Haramaya University, Department of Sociology in Peace and Development program. He born and brought up in western Oromia, Ethiopia. He has hold two Masters Degrees in Regional and Local Development Studies from Addis Ababa University where he also held his bachelor's degree in Sociology and Social Anthropology and Masters of Business Administration from Rift Valley University. He was a staff member of Arsi University, Department of Sociology and Social Work teaching different courses for the last three years, served as the Department Chairman and attended community service activities. He used to teach Community Development in Bishoftu Community Development Training College and Rift Valley University Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology before he joined Arsi University. Apart from his regular duty he has involved on extra-curricula works like developing TTLM for TVET trainees( on Community Development), Developing assessment tools for TVET trainees and offering some professional services in collaboration with Oromia Labour and Social Affairs, Bureau, Women and Children Affairs Bureau and Ethiopian Society of Sociologists, Social workers and Anthropologist. His research interest includes Local Economic Development, Sociology of Development, Peace and development studies, livelihood and sustainability, culture and peace building, women and peace building and federalism and ethnic conflicts. Megersa has been influenced by the works of Peter Eike who wrote a book entitled "the two public", Marxian and Weberian theories as well as Frank Furt school of Critical theories of which he very much admired is Antonio Gracia.