Month: May 2022

76 female factory workers graduates after attending 48 hours of personal advancement and career enhancement training( PACE). 50 female Century Garment and 26 JPT textile female workers respectively graduated on May 14/2022 after attending 48 hours personal advancement and career enhancement training . The girls have been pursuing  soft skill and life skill trainings and they have been obtaining courses on communication, problem solving and decision making, Time and stress management, WASH, Financial literacy, Excursion and excellence. During the graduation, the girls have given their testimonies by saying that the training have provided  them the opportunity to be empowered socially, economically and in others aspects of their lives.  The training was organized by CARE Ethiopia in collaboration with PVH and JPT Textile and Century Garments.

International worker’s day ( May day) was commemorated at Hawassa Industrial Park on May 3/2022 with the presence of Ethiopian Confederation president, officials of Sidam Regional State, park management and HIP workers.                                                                                                                          During the celebration, the park was commended due to the fact that 80 percent of companies at HIP are unionized. It was also reiterated the importance of strengthening trade unions so as to promote collective bargaining and ultimately ensuring industrial peace.                                                                                  The day was marked for the 143th time at an international level and 47th time in Ethiopia with the motto of “Workers unionization for industrial peace, productivity and improved standard of living.”

A Consensus was reached to continue the current cooperation between  HIPIA , Hawassa University, TVET, and public colleges in improving the employability of fresh graduates in HIP under the develop PPP program that will come to an end on 1st of July 2022. Following a workshop organised in Hawassa on April 20/2022, HIPIA has signed a  memorandum of understanding between  Hawassa University, Polytechnic college, and TVET colleges. The develop PPP program funded by GIZ and PVH and executed by HIPIA since 2018 has been linking government educational institutes with Hawassa Industrial Park through facilitating internships, externships as well as by paying pocket money to those interns who engage on the job training. This program will come to an end on the 1st of July 2022. The memorandum of understanding is believed to sustain the training and job opportunities for graduates in the future. These opportunities have enhanced the employability of students and as of today  out of 550 total internships in HIP, 100 have led to a job at the park. Hawassa Industrial Park Investor Association in partnership with GIZ has also been developing a career service center whose objective is to provide better qualified lower and middle managers to factories with the help of the center.