Kombolcha Polytechnic College (KPC) is a public TVET college in the Amhara region thriving to be center of excellence in the automotive technology in particular and regional flagship institute in general. KPC is one of the 16 East African TVET Colleges in the three countries, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania receiving World Bank support. The World Bank IDA financial support to these TVET colleges under EASTRIP (East African Skills Transformation and Regional Integration Project) is aimed at increasing access and quality of the TVET and promoting skills transformation and integration across the region. Public-private partnership is instrumental in today’s shift of Education platforms, from predominantly in the universities to from the workplaces and industries. Furthermore, the public-private partnership opens up the landscape for the private industries to be fully engaged in the occupational standard and curriculum development that would benefit the two parties. KPC to meet its objective enshrined for EASTRIP as well as to lay foundation for the public-private partnership; it signs memorandum of understanding with Belayab Motors. Belayab Motors is one of the leading automotive assembling companies in Ethiopia with a strategic vision of shifting the assembling of automotive in to a full fledge automotive factory. The memorandum of understanding stipulates that the two parties would work in win-win strategies to implement the joint actions that would benefit each parties and the nation at large. The representatives of the two parties, Dean of Kombolcha Polytechnic College, Melaku Aragaw and Technic Head and Vice Manger of Belay Motors, Setoal Tarkegne have reiterated that they would exert their commitment for the translation of the joint action plans. KPC have signed memorandum of understanding with Kombolcha Steel Products Industry (KOSPI) and Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) in March 2021. Ethiopia Investment Commission a government regulatory body that coordinates the conglomerate of industries operating in the emerging industry parks in Ethiopia.