STePP Industrial Vocational Training Programme in Africa

Transferring Japan’s sustainable technology to Africa

UNIDO ITPO Tokyo has launched the “Industrial Vocational Training Programme in Africa through Technology Transfer from Japan”, funded by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The programme aims to provide training to local engineers and technicians in Africa (Ethiopia, Morocco, South Africa, and Uganda) on technologies from Japanese companies that contribute to sustainable development and disseminate the newly acquired knowledge within their home countries.

Be-A Japan, Ebara Corporation, ITOCHU Corporation, Hinode Sangyo Co., Ltd., Kaiho Industry Co., Ltd. were selected as the 5 companies to cooperate in this programme. The participating companies were chosen from the companies that have registered their technologies onto UNIDO ITPO Tokyo’s “Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform (STePP)”.

Schedule

The project period is from May 2023 to March 2025, and will be implemented in two major phases.

In Phase 1, instructors from the four countries are invited to Japan, where each selected company conducts training-of-trainers (ToT) activities relevant to their technology.
In Phase 2, the instructors return to their home countries and share the skills they acquired in Japan with local engineers and technicians in their home countries.

List of target countries, technologies, and companies in this project

Country	Technology to be transferred	Company
Ethiopia	Female sanitary shorts sewing techniques	Be-A Japan ITOCHU Corporation
Morocco	Decentralized wastewater treatment system with microbubble generators	Hinode Sangyo
South Africa	Pump technology for sustainable water distribution	Ebara Corporation
Uganda	Environmentally friendly automobile recycling technology	Kaiho Industry

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Ethiopia		Morocco		South Africa		Uganda