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LEADERSHIP/DEVELOPMENT/TRAINER Ethiopia is a compassionate and visionary leader who has 20 plus years of experience on youth, women empowerment and girls’ education and leadership development programs. She has been highly involved on various programs that aim the enhancement of young people in general and women and girls in particular. Inspired by the dedication of the then young leaders who decided to take part in stopping the spread of HIV/AIDS back in the late 1990s, her career journey begun as being a branch manager for a youth-led organization which strives not only to ‘Save the Generation’ from alarming HIV/AIDS and reproductive health problems but also envisions to build a productive active young citizen. Eventually, influenced by her own firsthand exposure and profound experience, Ethiopia has now become a prominent advocate for youth and women & girls participation in all developmental agendas of the country. Ethiopia has more than fifteen years of proven experience in delivering training and facilitation on different thematic areas such as reproductive health and HIV/AIDS, leadership, mentorship, life skills, presentation skills and gender at national and international level. She participated in the development of the HIV Stigma Action Tool Kit and she is an African Regional Trainer of this Tool Kit. Besides, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has recognized her as Transformational Leadership Facilitator. Currently, she is the Head of IIE Sub-Saharan Africa and Ethiopia office. Among her main responsibilities, overseeing the strategic direction and the overall management of the Institution, supervising the scholarship program, higher education services, leadership development initiatives and training.
- Email: ethiopia_tilahun@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251911512708
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OMBUSMAN DIRECTERSS Fozia is a directress of the Ombusman office in Afar in the Department of Women, Children, and People with Disabilities Directorate. Fozia has BA degree in Theatrical Arts from Addis Ababa University and Management Degree from Rift Valley University. She is on the final stage of completing her Master’s degree in Sociology. She has played a notable role in the establishment of the Museum of the region.
- Email: fazia.beru@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251910142461
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POLITICIAN Gelila lives in Wolaita and she is the leader of wolaita biherawi niknake. Gelila uses social media to promote the unique culture of Wolayita, and shows allegiance with those whose voice needs to be heard. She actively works to advance the development concerns of the Wolayita people and is an advocate of heritage conservation.
- Email: gelilahailu654@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251928730079
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LEADERSHIP Hamelmal has Master’s degree In Leadership from Dila University. In 2017, she served as a Women’s League Chairperson in Guragie Zone, Sodo Woreda. She served in Women, child & youth affairs in Guragie zone, Sodo Woreda from 2008 to 2014. She became president of Guragie Zone Women’s Federation from 2015 to 2016 and she is Guragie Zone council member from 2014 until now. She is the director of Women, child & youth directorate in Federal cooperative Agency from 2016 to 2022.
- Email: hamelbeti@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911988629
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POLITICIAN Kidest is a politician and executive member the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) party and head of Ethiopian political parties joint council wing.
- Email: girmakidest1@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251910047702
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LEADERSHIP/WOMEN EMPOWERMENT SPECIALIST Tsigie is the founder and director of the Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE), a local non-governmental organization operating in Ethiopia. Tsgie had her BA from Addis Ababa University and MBA from the Netherlands. She worked for over 20 years at the Addis Ababa University, both in the administrative and academic wings, before joining the development sector. After leaving the University, she joined ActionAid Ethiopia and served for four years in the capacity of Human Resource Development Manager. While working at ActionAid, she decided to set up WISE and work with poor women and girls. The Organization Tsigie leads has served over100000 low-income women in support of their efforts to become empowered and improve the quality of their lives. WISE is currently a leading organization in women’s economic empowerment in the country. Tsigie serves in many governing boards and committees of different organizations and has received a number of recognitions for her contribution to poverty reduction and women’s empowerment.
- Email: tsigieh@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911405522
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MANAGEMENT/DEVELOPMENT Aberash has received her Master’s Degree in Management and Development with a specialization in social inclusion, Gender, and Rural livelihoods. She has more than 30 years of experience at NGOs and GOs. She has worked as a Program Coordinator, Department Head for Women in Development, Project Officer, and Home Economics Expert. She was involved in introducing small-scale improved postharvest handling, storage, and agro-processing technologies. She has played a role in job creation for rural women and youth by engaging them in threshing/shelling services and small scale agro-processing enterprises. She has facilitated training on postharvest handling, storage management, agro-processing, and human nutrition for farmers. She is currently working in Sasakawa Africa Association as Technical Coordinator for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture.
- Email: aberasht@saa-safe.org
- Mobile Number: 251911347704
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MANAGEMENT/TRAINER Kalkidan Girma is the co-founder of KEMMCOM; a Management Consulting firm that provides advisory, consulting and training services in two major practice areas: Corporate Affairs and Corporate Development. Kalkidan leads the Corporate Development practice with emphasis on developing business strategy, organizational health assessment, corporate strengthening, change management, facilitating soft skill trainings and implementing diversity and inclusion (D&I). Having worked in both the government and private sectors in the U.S. and Ethiopia for over 20 years, Kalkidan brings a wealth of experience and expertise in institutionalizing companies along with a proven track record of exceeding the expectations of stakeholders. Prior to focusing full-time on KEMMCOM, Kalkidan served as Management Specialist at the U.S. Embassy located in Addis Ababa handling different mission critical projects. Prior to that, she held several leadership roles at Verizon Wireless located in the U.S. She is a certified trainer and Equal Employment Opportunity counselor with an expertise on diversity and inclusion.
- Email: kalkidan.brook@kemmcom.net
- Mobile Number: 251118684318