Country: Ethiopia
Closing date: 12 Nov 2017
BACKGROUND
About ILO
The ILO Country Office for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan is implementing a project entitled “Improving Industrial Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development of Textile and Garment Industry in Ethiopia”.
The project is determined to support the development of socially sustainable textile and garment industry in Ethiopia. The project takes a multi-pronged approach, assisting the government, social partners and major industry stakeholders at various levels in their efforts to improve productivity, to promote social dialogue within and between the parties, and to improve wages and working conditions through nurturing sound labour relations practices and promoting collective bargaining to address the challenges in a comprehensive manner.
Purpose of the assignment
The baseline survey conducted by the ILO in 46 textile and garment factories revealed that the textile and garment factories are facing productivity challenges. The productivity challenges are a result of a combination of factors including; capacity utilization, high staff turnover, absenteeism, and lack of technical and soft skills, lack of productivity procedures, unreliable electric power and logistical infrastructure to avail products to local and international market.
The ILO project “Improving Industrial Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development of Textile and Garment Industry in Ethiopia” would like to engage a consultant to undertake a Productivity Improvement System and Capacity Building Trainings for four Textile and Garment Factories.
The consultant will provide assistance in Productivity Improvement Systems and Capacity Building Trainings for four selected textile and garment factories.
The objectives of the assignment are;
to undertake assessment(s) to identify productivity challenges and competitiveness of the selected factories
propose comprehensive factory level strategy including training to improve the productivity and competitiveness of the factories
Key tasks
The consultant will be responsible to support four selected factories to develop effective training package(s) and adopt a management system to improve productivity including through multi skilling operators**.**
The consultant will perform the following five key tasks
Conduct capacity assessment; Conduct production management capacity assessment.
Set Goal and Develop Road Map; Based on the assessment, set worker skill development goal and develop implantation road map for each target factories
Conduct Training; conduct technical and soft skills training for operators, middle and junior level managers
Develop manual on productivity improvement; based on the experience of the target factories, develop generic productivity improvement manual that can be used as a reference material for other factories.
Build Local Capacity; train locally selected consultants on productivity on modern methods of manufacturing to enhance their technical skills, organizing skills, and other areas of personal and professional development, to build their capacity.
Detail activities of the consultant can be found on the TOR.
Qualification and competences
ILO is looking for a suitably qualified consultant or organisation for its productivity initiative
Local and international experience in the implementation of productivity initiatives,
Experience in similar assignments on productivity initiatives in the textile and garment industries
Extensive experience on training, coaching and manual development
Demonstrated ability to support textile and garment industries on improving and developing productivity management system
Experience of productivity on H&M supported factories highly preferred
Terms of reference
Terms of reference of the study can be found below
Technical and financial proposals
All proposals should include the following sections and should not exceed 15 pages
One page Abstract
Description of how the consultant intend to conduct the task
Description proposed study design and methods
Workplan of the proposed tasks
Curriculum Vitae of the consultant/s
Prior productivity capacity building activities undertaken by the consultant and copy of the report to be submitted with the technical and financial proposal
Planned timelines
Duration of the assignment: November 25, 2017- June 24, 2018
Starting date of the study: 1st December, 2017
Final report submission: June 24, 2018
Reporting: the consultant will report to the ILO, Improving Industrial Relations for Decent Work and Sustainable Development of Textile and Garment Industry in Ethiopia project team. Further, the EXCOL/consultancy firm is expected to report to a Quality Assurance Team (QAT) which is composed of the ILO Staff from CO Addis, H&M Addis Office, and a representative from CETU, EEF and MOLSA. The QAT will review the work of the consultant and ensure that it meets the expectations of the TOR.
Terms of Reference (TOR)
Productivity Improvement System and Capacity Building Trainings for four Textile and Garment Factories
- Background
Ethiopia has a large population, 96.96 million people, which is the 2nd largest in Africa. Over the past twelve years, the Country has sustained double-digit growth with significant improvements in food security and human development indicators and declining poverty. This has resulted in the decline of the incidence of poverty to a level of 29.6 per cent in 2011 (UNDAF 20116-2020).
The proportion of Ethiopias working-age population that engages in the labour market, is high. However, disparities do exist between young females and young males as young females have lower labour force participation rate (74.8 percent) than young males (81.0 percent). Youth unemployment is higher than the national employment rate, and it is mainly driven by female youth unemployment which is remarkably high (10.8 percent in 2015 compared to 5.5 percent for male youth). Given the size of the population, the development strategy of Ethiopia, Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II) 2016-2020, accords due emphasis to bring significant growth of the manufacturing industry so that it plays leading role in job creation, technology learning, structural shift in Ethiopia’s export and address trade imbalance
The textile and garment industry is one of the priority sector. It is generating a new dynamism in the development of the manufacturing sector attracting foreign direct investment and creating jobs. Just like the East Asian exporting countries Ethiopia is planning to use garment exports as a stepping-stone to move into light manufacturing, and eventually into more sophisticated exports. However, the sector faces challenges related to productivity, industrial relations, working conditions and human resource management. Specifically, most of the garment and textile factories are facing major challenges such as absenteeism, high staff turnover, low productivity, poor human resource management, low salary and poor working conditions. In many of the factories, production system requires significant changes in the organization of production, the management of data, and the participation of operators in factories to improve productivity.
In order to improve the sector performance, the ILO in collaboration with the tripartite partners and with financial support from SIDA and H&M developed a project that aims to contribute to the development of socially sustainable textile and garment industry in line with Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP II). The project is working at national, regional and factory levels to improve industrial relations, working conditions and productivity of the sector.
One of the priority activities of the project is to support selected factories in improving productivity with full participation of the workforce. The importance of good management of the workforce (including workers, supervisor, and managers) to improve productivity cannot be overstated. In view of this, in the year 2017, the project plans to provide technical support to selected factories to improve productivity and competitiveness.
- Objectives
The objectives of the assignment are;
to identify challenges of productivity and competitiveness of the selected factories
propose comprehensive strategy including training to improve the productivity and competitiveness of the factories
Specific Objectives
The External Collaborator Contract (EXCOL) or Consultancy firm will be responsible to support 4 selected factories to develop effective training package and adopt management system to improve productivity of workers through multi skilling operators.
Specifically the consultant will perform the following tasks.
Component 1: Conduct capacity assessment
Conduct production management capacity assessment.
Conduct hourly operator capacity check, compare actual operator’s hourly production with their capacity
Assess line composition, available system and capacity for line balancing.
Identify available system for forecasting and planning production and human resource
Identify key bottlenecks for productivity and Evaluate the capacity of line managers, supervisors, industrial Engineers
Develop skill matrix for workers as well as staff
Identify available incentive to retain/reward skilled workers and multi-skilled workers.
Identify available training for supervisors and production managers to multi-skill them.
Component 2: Set Goal and Develop Road Map
Based on the assessment, set worker skill development goal and develop implantation road map for each target factories.
Skill improvement of workers in the lines will be measured by the productivity improvement of line and roadmap and goal should be set
Component 3: Conduct Training
In line with the road map
conduct technical and soft skills training for operators, Middle and Junior level managers
Support factories to build a system to increase factories reliance on a multi-skilled workforce so that workers can assume greater responsibilities without compromising quality.
Train supervisors to build system and capacity to train and coach workers on a regular basis.
Update skill matrix of the factory and ensure worker and factory productivity improvement
Develop salary scale based on the workers skills level. Given high stuff turnover, requesting workers to assume greater responsibility without clear reward system will be difficult. In view of this, support factories to build reward system and improve worker loyalty by improving various conditions of employment in ways that address major problems of social compliance, industrial hygiene problems, and inferior conditions in working conditions and cafeterias… etc.
Component 4: Develop manual on productivity improvement
Based on the experience of the target factories, develop generic productivity improvement manual that can be used as a reference material for other factories.
Component 5: Build Local Capacity
While working with 4 factories, the EXCOL/consultancy firm will work closely with the selected local consultants (maximum 8) to train them on modern methods of manufacturing by internal and external resources to enhance their technical skills, organizing skills, and other areas of personal and professional development, to build their capacity. The local consultants are expected to build the capacity of the remaining factories.
- Methodology
The EXCOL/consultancy firm is expected to report to a Quality Assurance Team (QAT) which is composed of the ILO Staff from CO Addis, H & M Addis Office, and a representative from CETU, EEF and MOLSA. The QAT will review the work of the consultant and ensure that it meets the expectations of the TOR.
The project will select universities to work together with the consultancy firm. The consultancy firm is expected to work very closely with the selected universities so that there will be knowledge transfer.
Key Deliverables
Assessment report
Road map
Training packages and report
Productivity improvement manual
Time frame
The duration of the service will be 7 months
How to apply:
Interested candidates must submit technical and financial proposals before November 12, 2017 through jemaneh@ilo.org or physically on the below address.
ILO Country Office for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan
Menelik II Avenue, ECA Congo Building, 5th Floor, Room number 518
P.O Box 2788 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Phone: +251 – 11 -544- 46- 57
Fax: +251115444999
For further inquiries Email: tsehay@ilo.org or kidist@ilo.org or jemaneh@ilo.org