The activities carried out to encourage investment in the Southern Regional State have yielded satisfactory results in terms of attracting investors. The government is intensively working to attract more investors in the manufacturing industry. The work done has resulted in results. The textile and garment factories which created jobs for a thousand people are exemplary to others, Ristu Yirdaw, Chief Administrator of the Southern Nation and Nationalities regional state.
The Industrial Parks Development Corporation has sought to make it easier for local investors to invest in industrial parks. The property leasing deal was struck by the Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC), Damtit Vet Pharma Trading PLC, and GreenBZ Investment PLC to manufacture Avocado oil, medications, and cosmetics. The Kilinto Industrial Park has been built on a 279-hectare plot of land with the necessary infrastructure and in accordance with international standards for the pharmaceutical, biomedical, and other related production purposes. The firm has been engaged in activities in order to recruit local and foreign companies to industrial parks to develop a variety of products. The management of the two firms acknowledged their gratitude for the Corporation’s assistance and reaffirmed their commitment to completing construction in a timely manner. The two firms, who have signed an agreement with the company, will spend 380 million birr in the building of Kilinto Industrial Park, which is projected to assist Ethiopia’s economy and society by creating jobs and increasing export revenues, IPDC’s CEO, Sandokan Debebe.
I am pleased to receive Professor Margaret Kruk & her team from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health to discuss on the work with Quest Global Net which aims to improve health system quality & reduce maternal & newborn deaths through generating evidence. The QuEST center in Ethiopia includes Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Public Health Institute and Addis Ababa University together with the Quest Global Net, & is working on People’s voice Survey, MNH E-Cohort & on a feasibility assessment for service delivery redesign. We are eager to use the evidence to continue improving our health system and health outcomes,” Lia Tadesse, Minister of Health.
The Ethiopian Herald June 4/2022
