With funding from the World Bank and the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the institute, acquired state-of-the art equipment for the workshop. More importantly, considerable achievements have been recorded in developing the capacity of the staff with special emphasis on Women, who make up the higher proportion of the community in Ethiopia.
The workshops have now established the desirable level of excellence making them most suitable for the 21st Century skills development. The improved training environment has improved the quality of TVET training, resulting in competent graduates with the required skills for the labour market.
EASTRIP Team Inspecting the Ethiopia Cuisine prepared by the Institute.
The Institute has established partnerships with industry which have allowed four selected instructors to attend training at the Ethiopian Airlines Aviation University (EAU), resulting in a certification of competence. The training at EAU is aimed at introducing an internationally accredited training program in Ticketing and Reservation to make use of the workshop facilities established under EASTRIP.
TTI has institutionalized collaboration with industry with the establishment of a Technical Industry Advisory Board (TIAB), that is actively involved in curriculum development to introduce market-driven programs, which has improved the employment rate of TTI graduates.
Training facility for Tourism Training Institute
For instance, the intensive customized training program has transformed hundreds of youths and women, in marginal areas, into productive workforce and created job opportunities. At the centre of program development are tracer studies and labour market survey, which exemplified the balance between demand and supply in the sector’s work force. “Without the intervention of EASTRIP, the outcomes of these undertakings would not have been integrated into the entire training framework, which has strategically shaped and dictated the industry,” said Mr. Getachew Negash, the Director General, TTI.
“The outcome of the labour market survey has supplied decision makers, policy and strategy developer and the industry with substantial and the first of its kind information to guide the national development,” said Mr. Negash.
Through EASTRIP, TTI has established partnerships with regional TVET institutes in in Kenya, Tanzania and other countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, laying a foundation for collaboration in student and staff exchange to facilitate regional integration.
By Abrham Legesse, Project Coordinator, EASTRIP, Tourism Training Institute
