Staff members from the three polytechnic colleges Dire Dawe, Bahir Dar and Tegbareid gathered in January for a workshop in Addis Abeba on gender sensitivity in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). The purpose of this workshop was to enhance common understanding of gender concepts and terminology, to discuss various challenges and opportunities for…
Over the past 1,5 years, CINOP and Cordaid Ethiopia have been working in collaboration with the Bahir Dar Polytechnic institute in Ethiopia on a capacity development project aimed at reducing barriers for women in accessing TVET, performing well, and successfully transitioning to the labour market. As part of this project, we organized a final event…
Throughout the world, the number of female students in vocational education is lower than the number of male students, especially in the so-called “hard-skill streams”. In the so-called ‘hard-skill or STEM streams’ in vocational training, the number of female students is often lower than the number of male students. In Ethiopa, we see that women…
