Street Food Vendors and Skill Training in Addis ketema sub city: analysis of current practices, opportunities and challenges an
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2015-06
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Addis ababa univeresty
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The study sought to examine skill training and practices, opportunities and challenges of
street food vendors in Woreda 8 of Addis Ketema Sub city. Data were collected from street
food vendors and officials, customers through questionnaires, in-depth personal interviews,
and direct observations so as to triangulate the evidence. From the findings of the study it
revealed that street food vendor’ lacks three basic skills; these are foundational, numeracy
and market skills. Though, it significantly helped to reduce unemployment, increased
incomes of vendors and provided urban dwellers with inexpensive and varied indigenous
meals. Moreover, street food vending, had no prior skill training in carrying on their
business. The study also revealed that two basic challenges entangled food vendors, one is
structural, and the other is hygienic. Strengthen their capacities and skills through training,
credit, empowerment and infrastructure so as to enhance their competitiveness and
productivity need to be everyone’s cooperation. The government should recognize street
food industry through legislation and introduction of a code of practice. Moreover area of
the intervention in training area shown that capacity building in marketing skills, numeracy
skills, business development and hygiene in the production of safe food were highly
demanded by food vendors. Finally minimizing barriers to the legal operation of street food
businesses, such as policies aspects as easier registration and licensing needs to be future
prospects of them. To enhance safe and enabling environment there needs to have further
research to describe the nature of street f o o d vending and quantify the consumption
of street foods in Addis Ababa and their economic benefits as well as ways to improve the
standards of street food.
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