Adaptive Management: From the Inside Looking Out
This case study describes changes made by EP inside its organisation to improve its effectiveness in facilitating better performing and more inclusive markets.
Apparel Market Strategy (MS)
This market strategy provides a market system analysis of the Apparel value chain in Ethiopia with a roadmap for capitalizing on market trends and opportunities.
Assessment of HRD practices at Hawassa Industrial Park
An assessment report commissioned to design and station an HR Service Centre that supports factories at the HIP to manage and build reliable workforce.
Better HR System
This factsheet describes how an intervention designed to facilitate Human Resource Management (HRM) capacity building to improve worker satisfaction and factories’ retention levels.
Changing the Rules with Evidence, Strategies and Action: Lessons from our Cotton and Leather Interventions
This case study describes EP’s support to policy reform in the cotton and leather subsectors using a stakeholder-driven, evidence-based process of policy formulation.
Cotton Market Strategy
This market strategy provides a roadmap for increasing quality cotton production, meeting textile industry requirements, and creating a unique international brand for Ethiopian cotton.
Cotton Textile and Apparel Sector Strategy
This document gives an overview of the cotton, textile and apparel sub-sectors in Ethiopia identifying the constraints and opportunities toward a development strategy.
Creating New Productive Capacity for the Leather Industry National Leather Roadmap
This national leather roadmap explores the leather sector with a view to understanding its current global market position and the challenges it faces, generating recommendations for bold measures towards improving its competitiveness and overall performance.
Eco-Industrial Parks: Concepts and Best Practices
This document gives an overview of the principles of running eco-industrial parks.
EIC Database
This factsheet outlines a new database system that improves the current recruitment system (sourcing, screening, grading and job placement) in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and ensuring data quality.
Enabling Access To Improved Seed (CAT 04)
The intervention design shows ways to enable access to improved cottonseed to increase cotton productivity, jobs and eventually the incomes of cotton farmers.
Enhancing the FAV seedling business models in Ethiopia
This document presents a growth strategy on how to create a favorable environment to transform the sector into one of the drivers of the economy.
Enterprise Partners in Support of Industrial Transformation: Building an Industrial Labour Services Market in Ethiopia
This case study describes EP’s support to Ethiopia’s nascent garment sector through the creation of a labour services market for industrial workers.
Enterprise Partners’ Monitoring and Results Measurement System and DCED Experience
This case study discusses EP’s experience in building a strong monitoring and results measurement capacity including applying the DCED standard.
EP’s Green Growth Strategy & Impact Measurement Framework
This document reflects on the overall green growth theory and practice in the global context of M4P. More particularly in EP, our interventions are designed to foster green business models and manufacturing support in Ethiopia’s transition to green economy. The document introduces the green impact framework and how those are captured.
Ethiopian Cotton Initiative
The goal of this proposal is to define and initiate the most cost-effective and efficient path for the creation of a sustainable and economically attractive supply of Ethiopian cotton.
Ethiopian Textile Sector Profile
This catalogue gives a comprehensive listing of companies in the Ethiopian textile sector including cotton producers, ginning factories, spinning factories, weaving, knitting, finishing producers and others.
Feasibility study on developing contract farming model
This is a feasibility study on developing a contract farming model. The study was initiated by the Ethiopian Industrial Input Development Enterprise (EIIDE) to support the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry by providing input supply and working to ensure that agriculture and input producers have a stable market for their products, thereby improving productivity.
Financial Inclusion Sector Closing Report
Closing report on the interventions from the financial inclusion sector including details from impact results, achievements and challenges faced since inception.
Financial Scheme for Workers (TATARI)
This document reviews ways to improve employee retention at factories in Hawassa Industrial Park through providing financial packages that enable factories to increase productivity and export sales while increasing income for factory workers.
High Value Crops Export
This document shows how an intervention aimed to enable commercial farms to increase export of fruits and vegetable products from Ethiopia to international markets.
HIPSTER Project Assessment
This document gives an overview of the regulation of different labour markets around the world and assesses the HIPSTER project against ILO’s fair recruitment regulation and also offers recommendations.
Human resource Assessment in Hawassa Industrial Park
This one-pager summarizes the findings from the SUSA Report (find full version in this collection). It gives a review of successes, challenges and key findings, as well as action plans to navigate through labour related challenges in HIP.
HUMAN RESOURCE GUIDELINES For Ethiopian Industrial Parks
These guidelines have been commissioned by the Ethiopian Investment Commission and Enterprise Partners to R&D Group and Sustainability Agents SUSA GmbH to help factories in Ethiopian industrial parks deal with their mostpressing HR challenges effectively.
Insights and Lessons for Driving Market Systems Change for Inclusive Growth in Ethiopia
Enterprise Partners released this compendium of seven case studies in November 2020 to share the progress, lessons and insights of the programme’s seven years. of market systems development in Ethiopia.
Journeys to Impact: Charting New Pathways from Pilot to Scale for Market Systems Transformation in Ethiopia
This case study describes how EP adapted its interventions in response to market system dynamics while staying focused on achieving desired market outcomes and impact.
Leather Products Market Strategy
Is a growth strategy that identifies and points out market opportunities for the leather products industry.
Market Study of Ethiopian Textile and Apparel Sector
This case study describes describes EP’s support to unblocking barriers to financial services for MSMEs.
National Cotton Development Strategy
The document reviews challenges and sector trends and presents recommendations with the aim to achieve sustainable improvement in the Ethiopian cotton sector along the value chains.
Private Capital Advisory Facility (PCAF)
A factsheet on an intervention aimed at developing vibrant investment advisory market, thereby increasing investments, improving deal-facilitation functions, and raising awareness and appetite for private equity in Ethiopia
Promoting Identity Cotton Production (CTA 09)
Produce sustainable cotton, which will improve farmers’ income and livelihoods, environment variables and working conditions inclusive of health and safety.
Public Instruments to Leverage Private Capital for Green Investments in Developing Countries
Discussion paper on the challenges of mobilising resources, particularly from private and institutional investors to catalyze green transformation in developing countries. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments and gives an assessment of their potential for a broader use. Additionally, the paper argues that more data transparency and quantitative research are needed to better assess the implications of the use of these instruments.
Quick Facts: Hawassa Industrial Park Skills Development
This factsheet gives basic information about the Hawassa Industrial Park, constraints and opportunities and Enterprise Partners’ interventions there.
Small & Medium Enterprises Cluster Development Plan, Ethiopia – Report on site assessment and product validation – Oromia region
This is a site assessment for a Regional Industrial Cluster (RIC) in Oromia. This assessment analyses the selected location with respect to location parameters, physical parameters, and the existing constraints that have yet to be addressed in planning developmental activities.
SMEFP Case Study
This case study discusses the technical assistance provided by Enterprise Partners for the effective disbursement of credit lines for small and medium enterprises.
Strategic Support for EIC
Strategy document to build EIC’s capacity in delivering their investment promotion plans over the coming years and to increase the number and quality investments coming into the country.
SUSA Report: Assessment of Workers’ Satisfaction and HR Structure of Factories in the Hawassa Industrial Park
An analysis report by Susa GmbH to understand worker’s satisfaction and HR structures in factories at the Hawassa Industrial Park. This report follows a series of recommendations to help improve working and social conditions in factories that address management and production issues. Key findings recommend an innovative approach that focuses on developing the capacities of both workers and managers for collaborative problem-identification and solution finding.
Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
In this report, the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, with analytics provided by McKinsey & Company acting as project adviser, joined forces to reconcile the concept of scaling a circular economy within the reality of a global economy. The key objective is to propose a very specific joint plan of action for industry leaders.
Transforming Financial Service Markets for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Ethiopia through Direct Technical Assistance to Financial Institutions The Case of Enterprise Partners
This case study describes describes EP’s support to unblocking barriers to financial services for MSMEs.
Women’s Support Services
It highlights the importance of improving the knowledge and practices of women workers on health and nutrition, and creating positive gender relations with supervisors and management at the workplace.
Adaptive Management: From the Inside Looking Out
This case study describes changes made by EP inside its organisation to improve its effectiveness in facilitating better performing and more inclusive markets.
Apparel Market Strategy (MS)
This market strategy provides a market system analysis of the Apparel value chain in Ethiopia with a roadmap for capitalizing on market trends and opportunities.
Assessment of HRD practices at Hawassa Industrial Park
An assessment report commissioned to design and station an HR Service Centre that supports factories at the HIP to manage and build reliable workforce.
Better HR System
This factsheet describes how an intervention designed to facilitate Human Resource Management (HRM) capacity building to improve worker satisfaction and factories’ retention levels.
Changing the Rules with Evidence, Strategies and Action: Lessons from our Cotton and Leather Interventions
This case study describes EP’s support to policy reform in the cotton and leather subsectors using a stakeholder-driven, evidence-based process of policy formulation.
Cotton Market Strategy
This market strategy provides a roadmap for increasing quality cotton production, meeting textile industry requirements, and creating a unique international brand for Ethiopian cotton.
Cotton Textile and Apparel Sector Strategy
This document gives an overview of the cotton, textile and apparel sub-sectors in Ethiopia identifying the constraints and opportunities toward a development strategy.
Creating New Productive Capacity for the Leather Industry National Leather Roadmap
This national leather roadmap explores the leather sector with a view to understanding its current global market position and the challenges it faces, generating recommendations for bold measures towards improving its competitiveness and overall performance.
Eco-Industrial Parks: Concepts and Best Practices
This document gives an overview of the principles of running eco-industrial parks.
EIC Database
This factsheet outlines a new database system that improves the current recruitment system (sourcing, screening, grading and job placement) in terms of efficiency and effectiveness and ensuring data quality.
Enabling Access To Improved Seed (CAT 04)
The intervention design shows ways to enable access to improved cottonseed to increase cotton productivity, jobs and eventually the incomes of cotton farmers.
Enhancing the FAV seedling business models in Ethiopia
This document presents a growth strategy on how to create a favorable environment to transform the sector into one of the drivers of the economy.
Enterprise Partners in Support of Industrial Transformation: Building an Industrial Labour Services Market in Ethiopia
This case study describes EP’s support to Ethiopia’s nascent garment sector through the creation of a labour services market for industrial workers.
Enterprise Partners’ Monitoring and Results Measurement System and DCED Experience
This case study discusses EP’s experience in building a strong monitoring and results measurement capacity including applying the DCED standard.
EP’s Green Growth Strategy & Impact Measurement Framework
This document reflects on the overall green growth theory and practice in the global context of M4P. More particularly in EP, our interventions are designed to foster green business models and manufacturing support in Ethiopia’s transition to green economy. The document introduces the green impact framework and how those are captured.
Ethiopian Cotton Initiative
The goal of this proposal is to define and initiate the most cost-effective and efficient path for the creation of a sustainable and economically attractive supply of Ethiopian cotton.
Ethiopian Textile Sector Profile
This catalogue gives a comprehensive listing of companies in the Ethiopian textile sector including cotton producers, ginning factories, spinning factories, weaving, knitting, finishing producers and others.
Feasibility study on developing contract farming model
This is a feasibility study on developing a contract farming model. The study was initiated by the Ethiopian Industrial Input Development Enterprise (EIIDE) to support the competitiveness of the manufacturing industry by providing input supply and working to ensure that agriculture and input producers have a stable market for their products, thereby improving productivity.
Financial Inclusion Sector Closing Report
Closing report on the interventions from the financial inclusion sector including details from impact results, achievements and challenges faced since inception.
Financial Scheme for Workers (TATARI)
This document reviews ways to improve employee retention at factories in Hawassa Industrial Park through providing financial packages that enable factories to increase productivity and export sales while increasing income for factory workers.
High Value Crops Export
This document shows how an intervention aimed to enable commercial farms to increase export of fruits and vegetable products from Ethiopia to international markets.
HIPSTER Project Assessment
This document gives an overview of the regulation of different labour markets around the world and assesses the HIPSTER project against ILO’s fair recruitment regulation and also offers recommendations.
Human resource Assessment in Hawassa Industrial Park
This one-pager summarizes the findings from the SUSA Report (find full version in this collection). It gives a review of successes, challenges and key findings, as well as action plans to navigate through labour related challenges in HIP.
HUMAN RESOURCE GUIDELINES For Ethiopian Industrial Parks
These guidelines have been commissioned by the Ethiopian Investment Commission and Enterprise Partners to R&D Group and Sustainability Agents SUSA GmbH to help factories in Ethiopian industrial parks deal with their mostpressing HR challenges effectively.
Insights and Lessons for Driving Market Systems Change for Inclusive Growth in Ethiopia
Enterprise Partners released this compendium of seven case studies in November 2020 to share the progress, lessons and insights of the programme’s seven years. of market systems development in Ethiopia.
Journeys to Impact: Charting New Pathways from Pilot to Scale for Market Systems Transformation in Ethiopia
This case study describes how EP adapted its interventions in response to market system dynamics while staying focused on achieving desired market outcomes and impact.
Leather Products Market Strategy
Is a growth strategy that identifies and points out market opportunities for the leather products industry.
Market Study of Ethiopian Textile and Apparel Sector
This case study describes describes EP’s support to unblocking barriers to financial services for MSMEs.
National Cotton Development Strategy
The document reviews challenges and sector trends and presents recommendations with the aim to achieve sustainable improvement in the Ethiopian cotton sector along the value chains.
Private Capital Advisory Facility (PCAF)
A factsheet on an intervention aimed at developing vibrant investment advisory market, thereby increasing investments, improving deal-facilitation functions, and raising awareness and appetite for private equity in Ethiopia
Promoting Identity Cotton Production (CTA 09)
Produce sustainable cotton, which will improve farmers’ income and livelihoods, environment variables and working conditions inclusive of health and safety.
Public Instruments to Leverage Private Capital for Green Investments in Developing Countries
Discussion paper on the challenges of mobilising resources, particularly from private and institutional investors to catalyze green transformation in developing countries. It discusses the strengths and weaknesses of these instruments and gives an assessment of their potential for a broader use. Additionally, the paper argues that more data transparency and quantitative research are needed to better assess the implications of the use of these instruments.
Quick Facts: Hawassa Industrial Park Skills Development
This factsheet gives basic information about the Hawassa Industrial Park, constraints and opportunities and Enterprise Partners’ interventions there.
Small & Medium Enterprises Cluster Development Plan, Ethiopia – Report on site assessment and product validation – Oromia region
This is a site assessment for a Regional Industrial Cluster (RIC) in Oromia. This assessment analyses the selected location with respect to location parameters, physical parameters, and the existing constraints that have yet to be addressed in planning developmental activities.
SMEFP Case Study
This case study discusses the technical assistance provided by Enterprise Partners for the effective disbursement of credit lines for small and medium enterprises.
Strategic Support for EIC
Strategy document to build EIC’s capacity in delivering their investment promotion plans over the coming years and to increase the number and quality investments coming into the country.
SUSA Report: Assessment of Workers’ Satisfaction and HR Structure of Factories in the Hawassa Industrial Park
An analysis report by Susa GmbH to understand worker’s satisfaction and HR structures in factories at the Hawassa Industrial Park. This report follows a series of recommendations to help improve working and social conditions in factories that address management and production issues. Key findings recommend an innovative approach that focuses on developing the capacities of both workers and managers for collaborative problem-identification and solution finding.
Towards the Circular Economy: Accelerating the scale-up across global supply chains
In this report, the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, with analytics provided by McKinsey & Company acting as project adviser, joined forces to reconcile the concept of scaling a circular economy within the reality of a global economy. The key objective is to propose a very specific joint plan of action for industry leaders.
Transforming Financial Service Markets for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Ethiopia through Direct Technical Assistance to Financial Institutions The Case of Enterprise Partners
This case study describes describes EP’s support to unblocking barriers to financial services for MSMEs.
Women’s Support Services
It highlights the importance of improving the knowledge and practices of women workers on health and nutrition, and creating positive gender relations with supervisors and management at the workplace.