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About JICA Ethiopia Office

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is an implementing body of Japanese government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) with its vision “Leading the world with trust”, and has been active in Ethiopia since 1972 after establishing its Ethiopia office.

JICA Ethiopia Office consists of 15 Japanese staff and 27 Ethiopian Staff (as of July 2020). Program section and administration section are in the office. Industrial Promotion Team is one of the teams in program section, and has team leader (Japanese), Project Formulation Advisor (Japanese) and Program Officer (Ethiopian; this is the post for this recruitment).

JICA supports in various modalities such as Technical Cooperation, Grant Aid, Concessional Loan, Dispatch of Volunteers, partnerships with Japanese small and medium enterprises, etc. Most of the projects are implemented by JICA experts, consultants, and contractors (most of them are Japanese personnel). Therefore, our office staff, including this post, will be involved in project formulation, monitoring, evaluation, and some other support.

After COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, JICA decided to let all the JICA Experts and consultants working under JICA’s Technical Cooperation Projects, to return and stay in Japan for some time. This may make it difficult to implement the projects as initially scheduled, nor have discussions on formulating new projects for the time being. And the operation of our office will also be at the minimum for the present because most of the staff do telework in Ethiopia and most of Japanese staffs work from Japan.