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DEVELOPMENT WORKER Meyru has diploma in Home Economics from an Agricultural College and BA in Social Science from Panjer University in India. She was serving as planning expert in the Agriculture Bureau gender affairs office. She served in a project called BESO with USAID for two years and became member of the parliament representing Afar Region. After a term of five years, she started an NGO that focused on digging out water in the region. She is now working with a Netherlands based NGO that works for advancing education among pastoralist communities.
- Email: humedmeyru@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251929515152
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LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT Mekdes is a strategic management advisor, leadership enthusiast and active young leader with more than a decade of experience in community service and active leadership in Ethiopia. She is now a PhD candidate in Mediation and Conflict Resolution at Euclid University. She has got her first Bachelor of Arts (BA) followed by her Master of Arts in Leading Innovation and Change from York St. John University. She is an internationally certified leadership consultant from John C. Maxwell Leadership Institute in Florida. Currently, she is granted a scholarship with United Nations Institute of Training and Research to be certified in Executive Diplomacy in Geneva, Switzerland. Mekedes is now consulting more than 12 organizations in Ethiopia. She is also a national consultant for UNWomen in coaching FDRE women executives. Mekdes is a founder and managing director of Ashagari Consultancy, a management solution firm and Ashagari charitable organization. Through her training and consultancy, she directly trained more than 130,000 people in Ethiopia.
- Email: mekdes2birhane@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251937882858
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DEVELOPMENT/MONITORING AND EVALUATION Meaza is a passionate evidence-based development practitioner. She was a senior gender researcher for Includovate, worked for iDE as a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, and then was promoted to Monitoring and Evaluation Manager within four years of working at iDE. She has held various roles including Economist and Planning and Evaluation Officer at Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority. She has experience in Human-Centered Design and quantitative evaluations and is passionate about gender equality. She holds a Master of Science in Environmental Planning and Management from UNESCO-IHE Institute based in Delft, Netherlands; and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Haramaya University, Ethiopia. Her core competencies are quantitative evaluation, feasibility study, gender analysis, MEL plan development, impact assessment, program management and Domain expertise.
- Email: meazan17@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251913034231
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RESEARCHER Lidya is a research officer at Alliance International Bioversity-CIAT. She is also a finance and development economist, development practitioner, gender equality advocate and a proud Rotaractor. As an Ethiopia project associate, she has worked closely with Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) team members and other partner organizations to execute implementations of projects. She also supervised and coordinated qualitative and quantitative data collection (including farmer focus groups, interviews, surveys), data cleaning and analysis, and writing reports. She works with researchers to ensure that projects adhere to polices procedures and timelines.
- Email: lidyayem@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911378327
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DEVELOPMENT/GENDER Fanaye has a background in Law, Development and Gender and has been working in academia and the development sector for the past 16 years. She has worked in the development sector with a focus on Gender Equality and Social Equity, Building Resilient and Sustainable livelihoods through market based and climate smart approaches and Local Governance issues. She is currently working as the Country Director and Senior Expert-Gender and social Equity of Helvetas Swiss Inter cooperation.
- Email: fanaye.gebrehiwot@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911939824
