Dire Dawa Administrative Council Integrated Resource

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Water Works Design and Supervision Enterprise Among the other free ranging vertebrates, reptiles observed in and around the Administrative Council include lizards, snakes and tortoises. Tortoises' density in the area and their huge body size noted indicates that they are most successful creatures adapted to that Administrative Council’s environment. b) Tourism Dire Dawa is mainly known by its trading centers followed by cultural and historical heritages. The following attractions are listed as primary targets for being set aside as National Monuments, historical sites and Sites of Special Interest and initiating further tourism development and rehabilitation activities. Ancient Caves of the DDAC • Lega-oda Cave is located about 38 km. from the center of Dire Dawa in the Guninfeta Peasant Association. Three caves known locally by the names of Goda- Kataba, Goda-Okotae and Goda-Buttu altogether make up the Lega-Oda caves. • Hinkuftu Cave located in Addis Ketema is another attraction that the city of Dire Dawa offers to its esteemed visitors. Historical and Religious Tourist Attractions • Second World War Cemetery: LAGA HARE MOSQUE • Abeyaziz Mosque • Awale Catholic Church • Italian Fort (Mishig) • Dire Dawa Railway Station • Kezira Open Market • Camel Market 2.8 Urban, Industry and Services a) The structure of the labor force In the DDAC large proportion of the population falls within Dire Dawa town (68% of the total population). Labor force participation rates are 35% in the urban area but in the rural area the participation is higher since both women and children participate more actively from earlier age. In the following table is summarized the labor force data. b) Manufacturing Industry Industry is the second important economic activity in the Dire Dawa Council and is at lower level of development. There are only six major industries: the Textile mill, soft drink factory, Meat factory, Oil mill, cement factory and Food complex. Unfortunately the detail information on these factories was not available and is not included in this report. The small-scale industries are of various types, which include range of Phase II- Data Collection - Site Investigation Survey & Analysis – DDAC - Main Report 37
Water Works Design and Supervision Enterprise manufacturing activities such as grain mills, Brick/hollow block manufacturing, leather works, construction, oil processing, laundry and soap manufacturing, and paper printing. From crude data available the total no of establishments are 123 equivalent to 25.5 million ETB of which 66 are grain mills followed by 12 Brick/ Hollow Block manufacturing. The respective capital equivalence is around 2 & 7 million ETB. A two years (2000-2001) investment situation is reported in the statistic. One is for the year 2000 and the other was for 2001. There is no substantial investment change between these years. According to the Trade, Transport, Industry and Truism Office, the total number of projects where investment license is issued are 305 with a capital of 1.9 Billion Birr and with expected employment generation of 8876 jobs. Out of 305 projects 40 projects with a capital of 155.5 million Birr have commenced operation, 42 projects with a capital of 200.4 million Birr are under implementation, and a total of 223 projects (73% of total) with a capital of 1538 million Birr (78.9%of total) are at pre-implementation stage. Among the total lists of projects, manufacturing (21.6%), real state development (21.6%), agriculture (19.7%), trade and commerce (16.7%) and transport and storage (8.5%)are the area of investment preferred by investors. Out of Birr 1.9 billion envisaged investment 56.9% is earmarked for manufacturing, 15.3% for real state development, 11.5% for trade and commerce, 4.8% for agriculture, and 3.8% for health. Education is the least sector, 0.3%, where private investors gave attention. On the other hand, the top five-employment generation potentials projects in the order of importance are manufacturing, trade and commerce, agriculture, real state development, and education with 27.1%; 27.0%; 15.5%; 12.3% and 7.2% of the respective percentage share. c) Economic services In Dire Dawa Administrative Council there are 4815 licensed individual/legal entity whole sellers engaged in 48 types of business up to 2002. The first five top licensed business (commodity) in wholesale are engagement in chat, yam fabric, salt, cigarettes, and grain trade with a percentage share of 71%, 8%, 6%, 4%, and 2.4% respectively. Licensed retail traders are 2680 in number and engaged in 73 business areas. The top ten business areas are in non-durable household materials and food stuff (40%), ready made clothes and bags (8%), Textiles (6.04%), Butchery (6%), Grain trade (4.2%) fossil and kerosene (3.2%), building materials (2.6%), grocery (alcoholic and beverages) (2.2%), garage (1.9%) and bakery (1.7%). Those licensed in Service Business are 1668 in the fields of 78 businesses. The top ten are taxi driving (24%), bar (16%), grain mill (7%), snack bar (7%), tailoring (5%), hotel (4%), restaurant (4%), building contractor (3.6%), tej house (3%) and hair dressing Phase II- Data Collection - Site Investigation Survey & Analysis – DDAC - Main Report 38
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