St. George Gojam Ber : Starts at Large and small hotels Mobile shoe Corridor 4 – (~3.34km) St George Square (2nd Square ) shiners, book A number of small businesses continues all the way North to sellers and basic providing services, including Gojam Ber ( ends at the roundabout commodities; café’s, restaurants, liquor stores; adjacent to condominium buildings) Parking attendants; Bole Embassy : Starts at the International hotels, cinema halls, market Corridor 5 –Britsh junction of Africa Avenue leading (large around (~4.3Km) malls & private offices and to Harmony hotel- Edna mall Square financial institutions; religious continues to Djibouti Street- Togo Significant number of small holidays); – Street and ends at the junction of Corner shoe business including boutiques, Fikere Mariam Aba Street (in front shiners ( shops, restaurants, bakery & liquor of main get to British Embassy). permanent); stores; Parking attendants Employment Micro and small scale enterprises are given particular attention to increase employment opportunities and increase their role to reduce poverty and bring economic development. The MSE sector has supported 735,772 people with jobs in the past five years, during the first GTP I about 251, 476 of the jobs were created in in Addis. According to the same source a total of about ETB 3.2 million market links was created in 2013, 363 enterprises were promoted to medium level Cities in Ethiopia employ 15 percent of the national workforce and 37 percent of those employed where in the informal sector. Formalizing the informal, one of the approaches the government took is to transform informal firms through skill training, provision of business premises and access to finance. Addis Ababa is one of the cities which adopted this approach. Informal employment trends are not equal across different groups. For instance more women than men are likely to be working in informal jobs, 48 percent against 28 percent. Plate 1: Street Activities (Formal and informal) 3.4 Vulnerability
Corridor 4 (~3.34km) St. George – Gojam Ber : Starts at St George Square (2nd Square ) continues all the way North to Gojam Ber ( ends at the roundabout adjacent to condominium buildings) Large and small hotels A number of small businesses providing services, including café’s, restaurants, liquor stores; Parking attendants; Mobile shoe shiners, book sellers and basic commodities; Corridor 5 (~4.3Km) Bole –Britsh Embassy : Starts at the junction of Africa Avenue leading to Harmony hotel- Edna mall Square – continues to Djibouti Street- Togo Street and ends at the junction of Fikere Mariam Aba Street (in front of main get to British Embassy). International hotels, cinema halls, malls & private offices and financial institutions; Significant number of small business including boutiques, shops, restaurants, bakery & liquor stores; Parking attendants market (large around religious holidays); Corner shoe shiners ( permanent); Employment Micro and small scale enterprises are given particular attention to increase employment opportunities and increase their role to reduce poverty and bring economic development. The MSE sector has supported 735,772 people with jobs in the past five years, during the first GTP I about 251, 476 of the jobs were created in in Addis. According to the same source a total of about ETB 3.2 million market links was created in 2013, 363 enterprises were promoted to medium level Cities in Ethiopia employ 15 percent of the national workforce and 37 percent of those employed where in the informal sector. Formalizing the informal, one of the approaches the government took is to transform informal firms through skill training, provision of business premises and access to finance. Addis Ababa is one of the cities which adopted this approach. Informal employment trends are not equal across different groups. For instance more women than men are likely to be working in informal jobs, 48 percent against 28 percent. Plate 1: Street Activities (Formal and informal) 3.4 Vulnerability