CALL FOR PROPOSAL ON: Insurance product development for Character Referencing among Women and Youth Job Seekers in Addis Ababa

Introduction:

LIWAY program is currently implemented by a consortium of partners composed of SNV Netherlands Development Organization (consortium lead), Mercy Corps, TechnoServe and Save the Children International. The overall objective of the LIWAY program is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction, improved gender relations and social stability in Addis Ababa. Specific objective of the program is to improve the livelihoods of 200,000 poor people, of which at least 50% are women and 75% youth, by increasing their income and access to economic opportunities in Addis Ababa. Sida has recently extended the program by two years up to June 2024.

Mercy Corps is leading a Labor Market System, where labor information exchange infrastructure, childcare/domestic duties and referencing (risk & trust) are identified as intervention areas through a diagnostic study in the labor market system to address key constraints which greatly affected the participation of women and youth in the market. Under this diagnostic study, it was indicated that information on available jobs and matching services focusing on semi-skilled and unskilled job opportunities is scarce and difficult to find in Addis Ababa. Competition for work is very high, and this is accentuated by rural-urban migration compared to other cities in Ethiopia. To this end, LIWAY planned to design and pilot an intervention which promotes market-based solutions & incentives that enable actors in the core market functions to improve business performance that create increased employment opportunities for urban women and youth in partnership with private implementing partners on cost share basis.