DOT - Digital Opportunity Trust

$6,900,000.00 CAD

≈ 88 Canadians' average pay for a year
Department
Global Affairs Canada
Program
—
Recipient country
Ethiopia
Fiscal year
2011-2012
Agreement period
March 13, 2012 – June 30, 2015
Project status
Closed
Reference
CA-3-S065409001

Published purpose

The project aims to support 88,000 young African women and men to lead economic changes in order to create new enterprises, raise individual and family incomes, and augment access to business development services and capital in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. The project contributes to enhancing the employment skills of young women and men; increasing the number of emerging and developed community-based socio-economic enterprises; and enhancing the delivery of economic development and working-readiness programs by DOT's local partners and the community-based organizations with which they work through in this project. DOT works in partnership with DOT Ethiopia, DOT Kenya, DOT Rwanda, DOT Tanzania and DOT Uganda. This project is implemented by Digital Opportunity Trust and co-financed by The MasterCard Foundation.

In plain English AI-generated

This project supports 88,000 young African women and men in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda to create enterprises, increase incomes, and access business development services and capital, while enhancing employment skills and local partner capacity.

Category: Foreign Aid Development Primarily funds activity outside Canada

Based on the published description. See how AI categorization works — the linked official record is authoritative.

Community tags

Tags are applied by readers, not by this site. One tag per person per record.

Good value Local impact Needs context Questionable Success story Wasteful
View official source record Imported August 3, 2026 from Global Affairs Canada IATI data