Tender Name: RFP to conduct research and support implementation of intervention. Capacitating Digital Connection platform to create more employment opportunities to Job seekers in Addis Ababa

Brief Summary Description of Project:

Mercy Corps in partnership with other Organizations is implementing Livelihood Improvement for Women and Youth (LIWAY) project funded by SIDA in Addis Ababa. The aim of the program is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction by improving the income of 200,000 poor people of which at least 50% are women and 75% youth/within the age group of 16-35/ living in Addis Ababa.

Mercy Corps is leading in a labor sector and started various interventions to address systemic constraints that obstructs the proper functioning of the labor market in Addis Ababa. These interventions are initiated based on detailed market assessment and action researches and works with both private & public partners over the past one and half years. They are geared towards employment/job creation through skills development training, availing labor market (job information), financial and technical supports for private and public actors for risk sharing and/or incentivize them to broaden their participation in the labor market. However, there is a huge barrier in getting job information and the existing digital and physical job matching mechanisms are not convenient for low and medium skilled job seekers. In most cases, the type of jobs that job seekers may get mostly temporary and unreliable as the job seekers show up daily without having organized prior information about vacant positions and/or employers. Employment agencies in Ethiopia is limited reach to both job seekers and employers. Most of these agencies are small in operation and have a limited number of companies that use their service making the chance of being employed narrower.