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# Overview
In Ethiopia, Tabiya works with the Ministry of Labor and Skills (MoLS), the Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI), and the World Bank to build open-source, AI-powered modules that power the country's national public employment service: a network of Job Centers and a national platform for Ethiopia's labor market information called the E-LMIS.
### Why Ethiopia?
More than two million young Ethiopians enter the labor market every year, and over 70 percent of the workforce is in the informal sector. Urban youth unemployment reached 27.2 percent in 2022, and the rate for young women was roughly twice that for young men. Where opportunities are this scarce, it matters all the more that the few available reach the people who need them, yet the labor market is fragmented. Job postings are unstructured free text that algorithms cannot read, there is little real-time visibility into where skills are needed, and compliance checks are done by hand across thousands of centers. The people with the fewest connections are the least likely to hear about an opening in time; urban youth have applications on their devices while rural citizens travel for hours, and jobseekers looking for work abroad are exposed to unregulated brokers.\
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At the same time, Ethiopia is among Africa's fastest-growing economies: the IMF's April 2026 outlook projects growth of around 9 percent in 2026. But aggregate growth, led by sectors such as gold, coffee, and aviation, does not automatically reach the jobseekers who are hardest to place, among them women, less-educated jobseekers, migrants, and refugees. That gap between headline growth and individual livelihoods is a large part of the case for stronger career guidance and intermediation.
A public employment service, delivered locally and embedded in government, can reach jobseekers that online platforms tend to miss, which makes strengthening it a matter of inclusion as much as efficiency. This is the gap Ethiopia's Job Centers and the E-LMIS exist to close, and where Tabiya's tools are applied.
### Our Partners
The [Urban Productive Safety Net and Jobs Project](https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099031324145511013) (UPSNJP), financed by the World Bank and led by the Ministry of Urban Development and Infrastructure, supports the urban poor and the labor market inclusion of disadvantaged urban youth across 88 cities, reaching roughly 1.7 million people.\
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The [E-LMIS](https://lmis.gov.et/) led by the Ministry of Labor and Skills is built around three goals: a competent employee matched to the right opportunity, a competent employer receiving curated and qualified shortlists, and a competent decision-maker with real-time policy data. The [Entrepreneurship Development Institute ](https://edi-ethiopia.org/)(EDI), a quasi-governmental institute accountable to MoLS supports Job Center capacity building and training. The World Bank's UPSNJP convenes and funds the wider project.
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This system already reaches significant scale: more than four million registered job seekers and some 13.7 million job orders, running through 787 job centers within a national network of 2,452 woreda job centers. Tabiya is the technology and thought partner, contributing the taxonomy and matching engine at the heart of the platform.
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