The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) was established in 2010 to support the transformation of Ethiopia’s smallholder farmers into commercialized actors with greater incomes, inclusiveness, resilience, and sustainability, contributing to Ethiopia’s achievement of middle-income country status.

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) has received a financing from Agence Française de Développement ("AFD"), and intends to use part of the funds thereof for payments under the project AgriHub.
The services of the consultant shall consist of provision of Role Specific Business Skill Development Trainings for 1,125 owners and staff of 254 AgriHub supported MSMEs, through 54 training sessions, which will be organized in Oromia, Amhara, and SNNP regions and completed within six weeks (Each week, there will be 3 parallel traiing sessions on average per each reagion). The services include identifying the business skill gaps with the owners and staff of 254 AgriHub supported MSMEs (Agricultural One Stop Shops (AOSS), Direct Input Marketers (DIM), Cooperative Based Seed Producers (CBSP), Mechanization Service Centers (MSC), Integrated Shallow Ground Water Irrigation Development (ISGWID), Horticulture Seedling Growers Association (HSGA)), designing training topics, developing and customizing training contents/modules, providing tailormade and role specific business skill development trainings; and finally conducting post training assessment in collaboration with the AgriHub project team. The training subjects are related with business administration, agricultural economics, economics, marketing management, Agribusiness, Management, Accounting, Finance or Commerce.