This photo documentation gives you an idea of our fields of interventions and activities and gives you a picture on the Ethiopian micro and small operator's situation.

Hollow bloc production:

Problems: Construction graduate without job; no start-up capital; no working premise.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided land; linked to micro-finance and got credit; linked to Selam technical center to buy hollow-bloc machine; entrepreneurship training provided; market link to the municipality for sales of blocs for public toilets; minimising costs by using waste water from the hill.

Outcome: Owner got self-employed; 12 workers employed; income is good because of low production costs, good quality and marketing support.

Weaver

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Car wash cooperative

Car wash cooperative

Bookkeeping

Car wash cooperative:

Problem: 12 unempoyed 12th grade complete students looking for job; no business idea; no start-up capital; no working premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Support in business idea generation; organising in cooperative; municipality provided premises and cleaned space; linked to micro-finance and got credit; bought some equipment and built premises; opended car wash and shop for oil etc; record keeping provided.

Outcome: 12 cooperative members employed with stabilised income

Mini-supermarket

Owner with facilitator

Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping

Mini-supermarket:

Problem: Lack of working premises; shortage of working capital; limited market access; no premises.

Support by BDS facilitator: Municipality provided space for shop; linked to micro-finance and got credit; shop constructed by the owner; entrepreneurship training and bookkeeping provided; linked to public events for sales.

Outcome: Owner got self-employed; 2 workers employed; income is good because of strategic shop location.

Carpenter workshop in Ambo

5-operating-machine

poor tools

Woodworking

Auto-mechanics Ambo

Metal works Ambo

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This is a local made 
welding machine

Tailoring workshop Ambo

Shop with textile stocks

MSE-PRO planning workshop

ISDC office Ambo

ISDC Library Ambo

Procedure to produce metal chairs
with a simple bending machine

Metal workshop

Electric stoven

Firewood stoven

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Sculptures

Curving

Curving activities in the
Mercato area of Addis Ababa

(Support by Propride)

Spices

Weaving

Food/spice processing
and weaving activity

(Support by Progynist)

Barbery

Bicycle sales and repair

Curtain maker

Bakery

Shoe maker

Axum souvenirs shop

Traditional
handicraft products

Micro and Small Enterprises Show in Addis Ababa