GENDER/NUTRITION/AGRICULTURE/JOURNALIST
Selamawit has MA degree in Gender Studies. She has got her BA degree in Foreign Languages and Literature (major English and Minor Geography) from Addis Ababa University in 2001. She took short courses to strengthen her career, among others making agriculture work for nutrition and food systems approaches from Wageningen University and research (WUR). Currently she is working as a gender specialist at Alliance Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Since she has her MA in 2013, she has served as full time and part time gender professional at different organizations and at different levels. She has worked as gender project manager, gender advisor, gender and nutrition expert, senior technical expert-gender, youth and nutrition for Ethiopian Horticulture Producer Exporter Association (EHPEA), CARE Ethiopia, Bilateral Ethiopian Netherlands Efforts for Food, Income and Trade (BENEFIT), Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) respectively. Her career in gender gave her opportunities to travel to different parts of Ethiopia and understand rural women and girls’ issues, efforts that have been made by government and non-government partners to empower women. She was also involved in part-time consultancy tasks for PSI-Ethiopia, Ethiopian Media Women Association and ABidan Consultancy, and understand about issues of commercial sex workers, latrine utilization of Afar areas, evaluation of self-help groups approached implemented with support of Danish Church Aid (DCA).
- Listing ID: 2108
- Email: selafir@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251913008226
