Federal Urban Job Creation and Food Security Agency (Ethiopia)
About

Vision

Attain internationally competent, deeply-rooted urban centers that can provide vast job opportunities for their inhabitants, convenient for residence & with ascertained food security so that the country will turn a medium income by 2025.  

Mission

Heighten the sector’s role by creating multiple job opportunities in urban areas, devise the programs & tactics that can ascertain food security for citizens under poverty line and yield efficient & competent enterprises through all-sided support for the movers of the sector.

Objective

Yield competent & efficient enterprises that can lay solid foundation for the industrial development by rendering growth-oriented support to micro & small enterprises, apart from those dealing in manufacturing; ascertain food security of the urban residents below the poverty line through direct support & environment development works in order to assure the beneficence of citizens by providing wider job opportunities to job seekers in a way of enabling them to save from what they earn & even take part in the regular job creation endeavors.

Values

  • Prioritizing public interest
  • Team operation
  • Professional & skill-based performance
  • Job affection
  • Be virtuous
  • Just & fast service
  • Attention to quality productivity
  • Serving without discrimination
  • Transparency & accountability

Legitimacy and Duties of the Agency 

  • Devises strategies that can help to enhance food security and job creation opportunities in urban areas, prepares programs beforehand and supervises the extent of execution whenever legal permission is granted.
  • Devises, coordinates and supervises ground works of supportive packages for productive safety-net, livelihood, micro and small enterprises apart from manufacturing.
  • Conducts researches and suggests recommendations that hinder the growth and competitiveness of the small and micro enterprises with respect to the job creation and food security of urban centers.
  • Builds performance capacity of supportive packages for regional institutes that support and coordinate urban food security and job creation.
  • Based-upon the urban food security and job creation strategy, it plans and supervises execution of the sector’s national development.
  • Coordinates trainings, delivers technological inputs, finances and consults the micro and small enterprises apart from manufacturing sector; whenever the desire arises from the support rendering institutions of them, by considering the growth intention of value chain along with micro and small enterprises apart from manufacturing.
  • Enables the creation of huge public movement in urban areas by affording vast educative trainings in order to bring paradigm shift regarding the job related misconceptions.
  • Coordinates concerned bodies to defend citizens and apply rehabilitation tasks in urban areas, suffering from social problems and illegal human trafficking at large.
  • Conducts the follow-up of inclusiveness of food security criterion whenever the criteria of contrasting urban centers with regard to development and good governance are set.
  • Conducts overseas market-ties for the beneficence of micro and small enterprises apart from manufacturing by supporting them get affiliated in pertinent fields of tasks.
  • Conducts studies to gather, analyze, organize and disseminate important information about citizens who are job-less, capable and incapable of engaging in jobs and those vulnerable to social problems regarding the urban food security and job creation activities.
  • Devises distinct package and engages jobs for citizens under poverty line; enables their graduation in the time span.
  • Executes duties of the federal urban food security and job creation activities by researching, deducting and widening best practices.
  • Coordinates supports from domestic and foreign government or privately owned institutions operating under similar objective.
  • Owns properties, undertakes acts, sues using its legal entity nomenclature and faces lawsuit.
  • Executes other pertinent activities which help to attain its goal.
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