ADDIS ABABA – The new concepts in the labor sector not only aim to create jobs and enhance citizens’ skills, but also ensure the sustainability of Ethiopia’s economic progress, the Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS) said.
MoLS Minister Muferihat Kamil made the above remark yesterday while opening the three-day training that is being held in collaboration with the Addis Ababa Labor and Skill Bureau and Entrepreneurship Development Institute.
The training aims to familiarize civil servants and employees of technical and vocational institutions with the sector’s new concept of public entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem building.
Muferihat also highlighted that the new concepts includes not only facilitating job opportunities for citizens and enhancing their skills, but also realizing the continuity of the country’s economic progress.
“The new concepts should implement four pillars to create better entrepreneurship which are the questions of existence of employer and employee, job opportunity, institution building and training.”
MoLS is focusing on empowering citizens to adapt the dynamics in the labor market and providing quality services while withstanding challenges and they are expected to converting problems into opportunities. “We must have political, economic, and social missions to implement the new idea,” the minister emphasized.
Addis Ababa Labor and Skills Bureau Head Tiratu Beyene mentioned that the training is important to increase the capacity of new leaders who have joined the sector.
The Bureau has carried out meticulous reforms over the past five months to provide transparent, efficient and technology-supported services and the reform has resulted in improvement in terms of human resource development and structure.
The training which is focused on policies and strategies, is instrumental to build the capacity of institution leaders and help them to implement new concepts, Tiratu remarked.
BY ESSEYE MENGISTE
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD SATURDAY 20 APRIL 2024
