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1. | Position: | Director | |||||
2. | Name of Organization: | Agora Consulting | |||||
3. | Full Time / Part Time: | Full Time | |||||
4. | Name of Staff: | Tewelde Gebremariam Adhanom | |||||
5. | Date of Birth & Age: | 23 /02/1985 | |||||
6. | Nationality: | Ethiopian | |||||
7. | Education: | ||||||
College / university | Degrees obtained | Mo/Year of obtainment | Class / division | ||||
University of Antwerp | MSc in Governances and Development | September 2016 | Great Designation | ||||
University of Bahir Dar | MA in Gender and Development Studies | November 2012 | Greatest Designation | ||||
Jimma University | BEd in Geography and Environment Studies | June 2007 | Great Designation | ||||
8. | Languages | English (fluent), Amharic (fluent), Tigrigna (native) | |||||
9. | Countries of Work Experience: | Ethiopia | |||||
10. | Employment Record: | ||||||
Name of employing organization | Dates of employment | Positions held | |||||
Agora Consulting | February 2023 | Founder and Director | |||||
Altai Consulting | 2020 – Present | Consultant | |||||
University of Gondar | September 2013—December 2019 | Assistant Professor | |||||
Care International Consultancy | December 2019 – January 2020 | Consultant | |||||
Samuel Hall | April 2019 – May 2019 | Consultant | |||||
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) | May 2018 – June 2018 and July 2019 – August 2019 | Consultant | |||||
Tewelde Gebremariam Adhanom is the founding director of Agora, a research consultancy in Ethiopia focusing on migration, climate change, policy, education, gender, and entrepreneurship. Tewelde has over 10 years of experience in the field of research and is the Director of Communications and a board member for the Ethiopian Evaluation Association (EEvA). Tewelde is experienced in designing, coordinating and leading complex research and monitoring projects across Ethiopia. Recent projects that Tewelde has contributed to include, Third-Party Monitoring of food distribution under the World Bank’s PSNP, monitoring of the EU’s peacebuilding work in Ethiopia, an analysis of the Tigray conflict, contributing to the FCDOs Ethiopia Migration Program, assessing renewable energy for the World Bank. Tewelde is experienced in leading and providing training to data collection teams for both qualitative and quantitative tools. | |||||||
11. | Work Undertaken that Best Illustrates Capability to Handle the Tasks Assigned: | ||||||
Name of assignment: | Main project features: | Position: | Activities performed: | ||||
Third-Party Monitoring Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) World Bank Ethiopia (Tigray) | Third-party monitoring of the World Bank PSNP’s food distribution in Tigray led by the World Food Programme | Research Lead | · TPM design and reporting · Design and coordination of data collection · Field team training · Logistics · Project management · Project delivery support | ||||
Labor Market Assessment of Destination Countries for Ethiopian Labor Migrants 2023, IOM Ethiopia (UK, Germany)
| Labor Market Assessment of Destination Countries for Ethiopia Labor Migrants covering the demand and supply side for skilled and semi-skilled Ethiopian labors to European countries. | Ethiopia Research Lead | · Tool designing · Collecting high level KIIs · Report writing | ||||
Outcome Harvesting and Longitudinal Research Capacity Building 2023, Oxfam Ethiopia | Training on Outcome Harvesting and Longitudinal Research capacity building to Oxfam staff and implementing partners | Co-lead trainer | · Co-design training materials · Co-led Training · Post training reporting | ||||
Third-Party Monitoring for EU Foreign Policy Instrument’s (FPI) Peacebuilding portfolio 2020 – Present EU Ethiopia
| Providing TPM to the following Projects: SELAM Early Recovery and Socio-Economic Stability in Tigray, implemented by CARE and REST. Strengthening Survivor-Centred Responses: Holistic, Comprehensive, Survivor-Centred GBV in Emergencies programming in Tigray”, implemented by Trocaire (CST) and other 5 local partners Lifesaving Primary Health Care (PHC), Mental Health & Psycho-Social Support (MHPSS), Sexual & Reproductive Health and trauma Healing for the Tigray’s conflict-affected population, implemented by Médecins du Monde (MdM) France | Research Manager | · Designing tools · Train researchers · Collecting qualitative Data · Involve in writing up the report and presentations | ||||
World Bank-Productive use of Energy on the on the cross borderlands in East Africa Countries 2022, World Bank Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti | An assessment of Productive Use of Energy in the borderlands of Ethio-Somalia, Ethio-Kenya and Ethio-Djibouti | Researcher | · Lead team of researchers in the borderlands of Ethio-Kenya, Ethio-Somalia and Ethio-Djibouti · Collect KIIs · Reporting | ||||
Lalibela Context Assessment 2022, French Development Agency (AFD) Ethiopia | a context analysis in the post conflict territory of Lalibela on behalf of the France Development Agency.
| Researcher | · Development of research tools · Field team training and oversight · Reporting | ||||
Ethiopia Rapid Research Facility (ERRF) 2022, Trias Consulting Ethiopia
| Researching on the rapid political situation of Ethiopia
| Senior Researcher | · Development of research tools · Conducting KIIs · Weekly reporting of the rapidly changing situations · Providing local expert knowledge and reporting | ||||
Atmospheric analysis conflict in Tigray 2021, OTI / USAID Ethiopia | Atmospheric analysis on the ongoing situation in Tigray, Ethiopia. | Researcher | · Development of research tools · Field team training and oversight · Reporting | ||||
Ethiopia Migration Programme FCDO 2020-2023 | Design and undertake research into migration routes across Eastern Africa, including monthly atmospheric reporting and deep dives supporting adaptive programming and policy direction. Implement livelihoods and communications programming across Ethiopia, with a focus on Tigray refugee camps and North Wollo in Amhara |
Researcher | · Supervision of field research team · Conducted Key Informant interviews · Reporting | ||||
Baseline for Building Rural Income through Dairy Business Growth in Ethiopia SNV (Altai) February 2020 – November 2020 Ethiopia (5 regions) | Quantitative survey of Dairy Households FGDs with Dairy Households | Project coordinator | · Development of research tools · Field team training and oversight · Reporting | ||||
Research Project on ‘Gender and Climate Change in Northwest Ethiopia’ of the VLIR-UOS, 2019 In Gondar, Ethiopia | This research project is conducted in drought prone areas of Northwest Ethiopia, aiming at designing evidence-based gender sensitive agriculture related adaptation strategies.
| Local Promoter of the research project | · Methodology design and tool development · Supervision of field research team · Qualitative analysis using Nvivo software. · Quantitative descriptive and inferential analysis · Reporting and presenting key findings | ||||
Assessment of Household wellbeing among Safety net program (SNP) beneficiaries in Tigray Care International Consultancy, 2019, Tigray Region, Ethiopia
| · Conducting Baseline survey from farmer households in the SNP in Tigray · Assessing the changes in the wellbeing of the farmers in the program.
| Consultant | · Methodology design · Development of research tools · Installing the tools to Kobo · Provided training on Kobo to enumerators · Supervision of field research team · Conducted Focus Group discussion with famers · Conducted Key Informant interviews · Analysis the qualitative data using Nvivo | ||||
Evaluation of the ‘Communications Campaigns and Migration’ Samuel Hall 2019 Addis Ababa | · Conducting research to look at the effectiveness of communications campaigns on migration and their relevance to the context. | Consultant | · Field coordination (time and budget) · Translation of the research tools · Provided training on Kobo to enumerators · Supervision of field research team · Conducted Key Informant interviews · Reporting | ||||
European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), The Netherlands 2019 Shire Eritrean Campus, Tigray, Ethiopia | · Baseline data collection for the Regional Development and Protection Program of the European Union in the Eritrean Refugees camps Shire, Tigray, Ethiopia · Fellow-up of the Regional Development and Protection Program implementation of the European Union in the refugee camps in Shire, Tigray, Ethiopia ecdpm.org | Consultant | · Field coordination (time and budget) · Translation of the research tools · Provided training on Qualitative data collection methods (FGD and KII) to enumerators · Supervision of field research team · Conducted Key Informant interviews · Reporting | ||||
12. | References | · Sena Kinati, Project Manager at Altai E-mail: skinati@altai-africa.com cell phone: +251937460052 · Dr Kassahun Tegegne: Academic vice president and former dead of Social Science, University of Gondar. Cell Phone: +251-918-703807 E-mail: kassteg@yahoo.com · Anna Knoll Head of Programme Migration, European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), The Netherlands, Cell Phone: +31 6 538 60 904 E-mail: ak@ecdpm.org | |||||
13. | Certification: | ||||||
Signature of staff member or authorized representative of the staff | Place | ||||||
Tewelde Gebremariam | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | ||||||
Zerihun Berhane has a PhD in local development and global dynamics from the University of Trento, Italy. He has two Masters Degrees – one in globalization and development from the University of Antwerp, Belgium and another in development studies from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Zerihun has worked in various positions with organizations providing research, training, and capacity building services and undertaking qualitative and quantitative analyses and impact evaluation of programs. His research areas include climate change adaptation, social protection, disaster risk management, food security, poverty, inequality, and migration. He has presented his works in several international conferences and published extensively in reputable outlets such as Climate, Development Policy Review, Geographical journal, Geoenvironmental Disasters, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Environment, Development and Sustainability among others. Currently, Zerihun is working as an Associate Professor at the Center for African and Asian Studies, Addis Ababa University and serves as Vice President of the Ethiopian Evaluation Association (EEvA).
Web of Science ResearcherID AFQ-1288-2022 ORCID Google Scholar
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zerihun-Weldegebriel