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GENDER POLICY/FEMINIST ADVOCATE Hilina is a gender policy and feminist advocacy expert. She has spent over a decade advocating for the recognition and fulfillment of women’s rights through national and regional law and advocacy mechanisms. She has served as a gender expert in human rights investigations, taught and conducted gender research at Higher educational institutions, led advocacy efforts under civil society organizations, and provided technical support for policy and law reform in Ethiopia. Hilina holds an LL.M in Law and Gender from SOAS, University of London, and LL. B in Law from Addis Ababa University. She is currently working as a gender and inclusion specialist at the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV).
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- Email: bhilina.degefa@gmail.com
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GENDER CONSULTANT/CHEMIST Messeret has MA degree in Gender Studies from Addis Ababa University. She was enrolled at Abo Akadamia University in Finland as an exchange student and attended advanced course on ‘Feminist Perspective of Science Studies’. Having first degree in the field of science, Meseret has served as quality control Chemist and microbiologist for different organizations in her earlier days of work life. After getting her second degree in Gender Studies, she joined the Women’s Affairs department at Geological Survey of Ethiopia, under the Ministry of Mines. She also has a track record, working in various sectors including the women’s affairs such as, human right, national election, house of representative, the road and transport, as well as the industrial sector. She has been actively involved in the preparation of national gender related manuals, national gender mainstreaming, leveling and data base framework and Training module. She has been working as gender advisor and consultant for various organizations, these services include; preparation of training manuals and provision of training, conducting assessments, gender auditing, GBV/VAW risk identification, anti-GBV/SH policy and Grievance handling guideline preparation, coaching and mentorships manual preparation, gender mainstreaming manual/GBV mitigation manuals and many more for projects sponsored by UNICEF, PACARD Foundation, World Bank, UN Women, African Development Bank.
- Mobile Number: 251911461496
- Email: messi22us@yahoo.com
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GENDER/AUDIT/SOCIAL AFFAIRS Mulumebet has BA degree in Political Science and International Relations and MA in Gender Studies from Addis Ababa University. She has worked for thirty five years in government organizations in different capacities mostly in managerial positions including :-Head of Women’s Affairs Departments in Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,]; Director, Gender, and Social Affairs Directorate in Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority; Head, Administration and Finance Departments in Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD); and Office of the Federal Auditor General (OFAG); Head, Organization and Management Division, (OFAG); Head personnel administration and General Service in Ministry of Agriculture MoA; Head, Division and Manpower Record and Statistics in Ministry of Agriculture. She has conducted gender audits for six different government and non-government organizations and produced Gender Mainstreaming guidelines. In addition, she has served as one of the team members in the preparation of Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines and Gender Training Modules by Ministry of Women, Children and Youth Affairs (MoWCYA). As an associate member of the Ethiopian Management Institute (EMI), she has produced five training modules in relation to gender for “Gender Development Management Course” and provide trainings on different topics on gender.
- Mobile Number: 251913544622
- Email: mulumebetm@gmail.com
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GENDER/LECTURER/RESEARCHER Mulumebet is associate professor at Center for Gender Studies, College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University. She was director of the Institute of Gender Studies of Addis Ababa University from March 2008 to February 2010. She has a wide experience in research and fieldwork in various parts of Ethiopia. Her research works have mainly been in the areas of gender and education, literature, women’s networks, sexuality and reproductive health. Her research findings have been published in international journals and books. She has also participated at various national and international conferences and presented papers. Mulumebet has been involved in gender training and gender advisory work. She has served as board and advisory committee member of various local and international organizations.
- Mobile Number: 251911627413
- Email: muluzen@yahoo.com
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GENDER/WOMEN RIGHTS Selamawit is a Pan-African feminist, consultant, and writer who grounds her work in intersectional feminist politics as the foundation for disrupting unequal power structures. For several years now, she has engaged in this work at a national, regional, and international level at organizations such as Earuyan Solutions, UN Women, Black Feminist Futures, FRIDA| the Young Feminist Fund, Internews, and others. Trained in economics and public health, her areas of interest and expertise have grown around feminist economics policies, programming and capacity building of grassroots movements to transit to civic society organizations, and feminist internet and digital security. She currently founded a digital platform, She Secures, that advocates for the digital rights and internet freedom of women.
- Mobile Number: 251921337869
- Email: dm2selam@gmail.com
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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).
- Mobile Number: 251913008226
- Email: selafir@gmail.com
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MEDIA/GENDER Selome worked for radio Ethiopia as a reporter, senior editor, and coordinator. In addition, she was co-founder and Coordinator of FM Addis 97.1, the first FM radio station in Ethiopia. She worked for Deutsch Welle in Germany Cologne and Bonn, as a Senior Editor. Later, she joined Population Media Center (PMC) as Senior Editor and Radio Programs Coordinator. Leaving PMC, she was hired by Global Press Institute (GPI) as Country Editor. Her significant roles were coordinating and giving trainings; translating and preparing training materials on girls' issues related to media campaigns; and lastly writing and editing scripts posted on GPI's Newswire. She also worked for Internews as Media Monitoring Expert attached to the Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA). Her role was monitoring broadcasting media before and during the 2021 election period. She also provided guidance to EMA’s media monitors by sharing ideas, and editing their reports. Selome, who received B.A in Foreign Language and Literature from Addis Ababa University has been engaged in gender and media advocacy. She conducted, co-conducted, and coordinated some research and training activities in relation to the media. Currently, she is persisting with this engagement. Her unique passion is participating in volunteer activities. As a member, she worked for the survival of the Ethiopian Media Women Association and the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association. She is participating as a member of the Women’s Health Association of Ethiopia, Ethiopian Women Human Rights Defenders Network, and currently, as President of Soroptimist International Addis Ababa Club.
- Mobile Number: 251911227781
- Email: selomedesta@gmail.com
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GENDER/RESEARCHER/TRAINER Siyane has been working in the field of education, sexual reproductive health rights, and gender research and training for more than a decade. She is finalizing her Ph.D studies by researching the policy and practice of sexuality education in the context of Ethiopia and Uganda at Addis Ababa University. She has so far co-authored three publications on internationally reputable journals and writing ongoing studies. Siyane has been involved in running training for ministerial-level experts, media professionals and civil service officers. She is currently working for the Center for International Reproductive Health and Training (CIRHT) on Sexual reproductive health rights research and advocacy.
- Mobile Number: 251911077372
- Email: anileysiyane@yahoo.com