Ethio-Japan Partnership Seminar Proceeding - CRDA Ethiopia

Addis office, and that fund is channeled in such was so as to help thepastoralists here.Q3. Does TICAD support especial groups of society like women,children, youth and the like?TICAD is not initially designed to implement activities for especial groupsmentioned, but as part of the society those mentioned groups are directly andindirectly beneficiaries of the projects activated by TICAD.Q4. How is the youth population mentioned and raised as challenge byyour government?Compared to China that has huge population, the youth population ration is notthat much as taking into account the cases in Africa, where Africa has hugeyouth population, which is not that productive, and becomes threat to theeconomic growth, and issue for economic projects due to unemployment andother related issues connected to this.Q5. What is your initiative regarding exploring minerals/naturalresources for this is important for sustainable development? What isyour contribution regarding improving technological capacity with thisregard?Japan’s resource is limited, and we are forced to support on focusing prioritysectors so that much can be done with that by concentrating on specific sectorsand having set priorities.We believe that we should transfer technological capacity and knowledge whoseorigin is of Japan to here, and we are doing this through our technicalassistances, sharing basic ideas.Q6. Do you cover costs for maintenance of roads construction?The intention of funding projects is not to make the civil society entirelydependent up on us, but rather we want to see the sense of ownership by thecivil societies and those beneficiaries in a way becoming self-sustainable and10