PROJECT SUMMARY  

AMU Project code 

EXT/UN/VPRCE/03/2014 

Project status 

Ongoing 

Acronym 

UIL-Grant  

Project phase 

I 

Partner(s)/ country(ies) 

UNDP (UN), Ministry of Education (Ethiopia), and Ministry of Innovation (Ethiopia)  

AMU coordinating office(s) 

Vice President for Research and Community Engagement 

Website  

https://www.undp.org/ethiopia  

Project type 

UIL 

Project location 

Dorze-AMU 

Target Communities 

Unemployed youths  

Project coordinator  

Tolera Seada (PhD) 

Project manager 

Addisu Fekadu (PhD) 

Principal investigator 

Addisu Fekadu (PhD) 

AMU budget contribution (€) 

5,000 

Partner budget contribution (€) 

10,000 

Total project budget (€) 

15,000 

Project start 

1-Aug-22 

Project end 

30-Jun-23 

Contact person (e-mail) 

Dr. Addisu Fekadu (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

Project Management Office 

 

Office of the Director for Grant and Collaborative Project Management: Dr. Thomas Torora (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION 

This proposal is prepared to seek financial support to popularize and commercialize patented innovative enset processing technologies and food products developed by Arba Minch University in a University-Industry-Linkage modality. Enset production hub will be established at the Dorze-Holo site, where an enset park, training, guest houses and basic facilities are already installed. Training will be provided for machines/tools manufacturers, enset raw material supplier women cooperatives, mills and bakeries to ensure hygienic and quality products. Production optimization will be performed under industry manufacturing situations.  The developed technologies will be used to produce and pack high quality enset products in collaborating firms/institutions and tested for customer feedback in available local and international markets for product improvement. The available market for the manufactured products will be studied. required promotions will be made to create awareness for the new products and expand the market for the products. The innovative enset based-food products will be certified at Ethiopian Conformity Assessment enterprise and Ethiopian Food and drug authority. Sample products will be marketed, and customer feedback will be obtained. The products will be branded and promoted for sale in both local and international markets. The short term and long-term projected revenues of the project are estimated to be 204,001 ETB and 1,224,126 ETB. This makes the first phase of the project and requires an estimated budget amounting to 483,857 (Four hundred eighty-three thousand eight hundred fifty-seven birr) for twelve months.