Profile: Andachew Kuma / A.K/

Andachew Kuma is a professional government worker and a sociologist by profession. He graduated from Addis Ababa University in 1980. While in the government, he worked in various training areas, particularly on business management. As business management training division head, he is consulting and managing training activities.

He took training management in Italy, Torino and went to Harare in Africa as a trainer on Cooperatives Training in Africa course.  He attended a general management courses organized by the civil service commission.  He also participated in workshops on project preparation and appraisal, participatory approach and tools, Business Development Services (BDS) and Monitoring and Evaluation of SMEs. He also attended the Administration Bureau  of  Labor  and Social  Affairs  and Children in difficult  Circumstances Program of the Ministry of Labor  and Social Affairs and Italian  Corporation. He also joined a networking of organizations dealing with training and employment for youth. In his activities, he worked with many NGOs on the promotion of  SMEs sectors. He focus on mainly youth and women areas to enable them to create income generating activities.

He wrote a paper on importance of skills and business management training for the promotion of SMEs in Ethiopia for the workshop conducted by Oromiya. He also wrote a paper on vocational training and youth employment in Addis Ababa.

He speaks English, Amharic and Oromiya, write read and speak too. Throughout his worklife he prepared  training materials on handicraft  cooperatives and translated English materials into local language and for appropriate  users.

As business management training division head he is consulting and managing training activities.

In hes activities he faced many NGOs regarding on the promotion of  SMEs sectors . Mainly of youth and women areas to enable them in creating income generating activities. SMEs are sector that is developing rapidly in the country. The government  has given great  emphasis on these areas

At present  he is working  as the business management train division head in the government organization.