DOT - Digital Opportunity Trust

Published purpose

The Digital Opportunity Trust (DOT’s) project aims to increase incomes of young Women and Men in urban areas of Ethiopia by improving their employment-readiness skills and strengthening youth-run small businesses. Talented and qualified Ethiopian youth are also recruited and deployed as trainers within their communities to deliver a peer-to-peer entrepreneurship development program to unemployed youth. The project uses information and communication technology and provides business development services and capacity-building support to businesses and partners to deliver effective entrepreneurship programs for youth. The project aims at building the entrepreneurial and business skills of 75,000 young people between the ages of 18 and 29, enabling them to find employment or create micro- and small- enterprises. It also builds the capacity of 6,920 youth who already own small enterprises to successfully expand their businesses.