Ethiopia’s “Made in Ethiopia” programme has catalysed a ton of domestic production, reviving 1,115 factories, creating 1.58 million jobs and replacing $5.96 billion of imports with local production, all since 2021.
Now it’s expanding its ambitions: while the first phase was largely about getting more out of Ethiopia’s existing industrial base by reopening defunct factories and raising utilisation at plants working below capacity, Ethiopia’s Ministry of Industry says it’s time to expand manufactured exports. The ambition is to compete on price and quality with factories in China, India and Turkey.
