MIDI-Leather & Leather Products Industry Research & Development Center jobs and careers

About MIDI-Leather & Leather Products Industry Research & Development Center

LEATHER INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: The level of industrialization in Ethiopia is very low, with the shares of the manufacturing sectors accounting for less than five percent of Gross Domestic product (GDP) in the past decades. In an effort to turn this growth pattern and the vision of the government for the manufacturing sector into a reality, the government gives great attention and priority for the leather sector and established LIDI with the main objectives of leather sector development and competitiveness of the sector in the global area by council of ministers regulation No.181/2010. LIDI’S OBJECTIVES: According to regulation No. 181/2010 the objective of the LEATHER INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (LIDI) is to facilitate the development and transfer of leather and leather products industries technologies, and to enable the industries become competitive and beget rapid development.