Traditional Ethiopian textiles

The following are a list of links related to Ethiopian women, textiles, and technology.

*Traditional Ethiopian textiles from the Ethiopian Women's Promotion Center website
http://www.bds-ethiopia.net/ewpc.html
















*Guenet Fresenbet
http://philippe.guenet.free.fr/siteref/fresenbet/fresenbet.htm

" Guenet Fresenbet or GIGI, an Ethiopian woman on a mission to change this inferior image in the area of textiles and fashion. Using all handmade ethiopian traditional textiles and many natural dyes for her high fashion designs. 'The show featured ‘ecologically friendly’ spring and summer day wear. The playful and attractive, yet reassuringly simple designs were made from 100% traditional hand woven cotton fabrics (shemma), dipped in a variety of natural dying agents including tea, coffee, carrot and avocado."

*'Support for Growth-orientated Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia'
http://www.afdb.org/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/ADB_ADMIN_PG/DOCUMENTS/PRIVATE_SECTOR_OPERATIONS/ILO-ETHIOPIA_14.01.2005.PDF

This link is to a report entitled 'Support for Growth-orientated Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia' which outlines, using pretty recent statistics and information (2003), socio/economic status Ethiopia and ways of improving the entrepreneurial growth of women.

It outlines a brief history of many networks, working groups, organizations concentrating on bettering women's entrepreneurial skills in both local and world markets. Based on a project that integrated the framework developed for Atlantic Canada growth-oriented women entrepreneurs, the report gives suggestions on ways of improving what is already in order as well as ideas for future projects.

*'AN ASSAULT ON POVERTY
Basic Human Needs, Science, and Technology'
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-28593-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Chapter 8. Technology and Basic Needs in Ethiopia by Getaneh Yiemene 1997

"To discuss technology to address basic needs is to discuss national development. Ethiopia has very limited resources at her disposal to allocate to the building up of a national S&T capability, although extensive and sustained development of S&T capability is required to bring about massive social and technical changes, to rapidly achieve increases in agricultural and industrial productivity, to rationally conserve and use natural resources to provide for basic human necessities (for example, food, clothing, shelter, education, and energy), to modernize communication networks _ in general, to improve the standard of living of the people. Such long-term undertakings, with limited resources, can only succeed if guided by a coherent S&T policy."

This book written and published by the UN can be read online and chapter 8 discusses Ethiopian statistics, outlines many needs and goes into detail of the science and technology policy developed in 1993 by the Ethiopian government.


*The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs: People, Processes, and Global Trends
by Jeanne Halladay Coughlin

This could be an interesting book not specific to Ethiopia but more towards motivation and empowerment of women entrepreneurs.

*Textile Engineering Department
of Bahir Dar University
http://www.telecom.net.et/~bdu/texteng.html

*The Ethiopian Textile and Garment Sector
http://www.bds-ethiopia.net/textile/

Overview of the Textile Sector
Companies and Products
Training Centres (could be useful for teaching locations)
Export Markets
Supply Markets

Interesting fact: the Ethiopian government employes 2/3 of all the textile manufacturing. as appossed to 1/3 private.

The Role of Women
http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/ethiopia/ethiopia70.html

This article outlines the need for more education for women especially in rural areas. (no so current statistics)
A need to increase women's rights, higher wages, more available jobs and equal opportunity in the work force for men and women.

*Decent Work Country Programme for Ethiopia
Mapping Participants in the Cotton and Textile Sector:
Their Past, Present and Future Action Programmes
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:mtkDESnhXnIJ:www.ilo.org/public/english/region/afpro/addisababa/publ/cottontextilesectors.pdf+women+technology+textile+ethiopia&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=14

This article reports on many sides of the textile sector: programms that have been instated to improve them and areas of future improvement. (note to self read in greater detail later.)

"The status of handloom production in the country in terms of production technology and marketing is however found to be very low and limited." (page7)

-this could be an area we could help

*Trade and Gender
Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries
United Nations 2004
http://www.intracen.org/e-trade/events/2005/UNCTADO.pdf
Chapter 14
THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROMOTION OF GENDER EQUALITY

*National Policy on Ethiopian Women created in 1993
http://www.ethioembassy.org.uk/fact%20file/a-z/women-1.htm