EU-IOM Joint Initiative

for Migrant Protection and Reintegration

Childcare usually presents ready work opportunities to both young and mature jobseekers, including migrants.

With this in mind, a programme in Ethiopia is offering standardized and accredited childcare training to migrant returnees and others in their communities of origin. Moreover, each successful candidate will be assisted with a job placement.

The course is offered at Addis Ababa’s Eshururu Training Centre (ETC), a private college that has run similar courses since 2013.

The first cohort of 120 participants were due to start in early 2022. They will gain the skills allowing them to secure employment, thereby facilitating their reintegration into their communities of return.  ETC will sponsor 20 participants.

The course covers first aid, parent and child psychology and development, community policing and career development.

It runs over two months, with the trainees attaining at least 150 credit hours before being allowed to sit for competency examinations. The training is accredited by the Educational and Training Quality Control Authority of Ethiopia.

Other benefits provided to the trainees include psychosocial support as well as life cover, provided by the programme funder: the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa (the EU-IOM Joint Initiative).

“Private sector engagement and skills-based intervention is key to empowering vulnerable migrant returnees,” commented Kidist Mulugeta, the Strategic Partnership Officer for the programme in Ethiopia.  

About the EU-IOM Joint Initiative 

Launched in December 2016 with the support of the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), the programme brings together 26 African countries of the Sahel and Lake Chad region, the Horn of Africa, and North Africa, along with the European Union and the International Organization for Migration, around the goal of ensuring that migration is safer, more informed and better governed for both migrants and their communities.

For More information, please contact Wilson Johwa, email: wjohwa@iom.int or Adam Sahilu, email: asahilu@iom.int