User Listings
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DEVELOPMENT WORKER Seada was born in Assayita special name Sehale. She has completed her diploma in animal science from Jimma University and got her bachelor’s degree from Haramaya University in the same field of study. She has served in different positions for the last 14 years. She has got her Master’s degree in Cooperative Marketing from Mekelle University. She was engaged in several initiatives that empower the financial capacity of women. As a technical assistant to UNFP she is trying to stop harmful traditional practices in Afar region such as female genital mutilation and early marriage.
- Email: seadamohammed59@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251911064027
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FOOD SECURITY/AGRICULTURE/POLICY ANALYSIS Selamawit has been working in the areas of food security and agriculture. She has experience in policy analysis , strategic leadership, projects and program management, inclusive economic growth , social development, community behavior change models and practice. She also has experience in applying holistic approaches to ending child marriage and other harmful traditional practices, advocacy and women’s reproductive health rights. She has the capacity to advise on cooperative development and gender equality, women and entrepreneurship, large scale program coordination and implementation including strategic engagement with government and key stakeholders such as international NGOs and local partners at all levels from district to sub regional level. She has been involved in research and advocacy, preparation of publication for different purposes and did different consultancy works in the country and abroad.
- Email: selambuchi@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251912000034
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LAWYER/POLICY ADVOCACY/COMMUNICATION Soleyana is a lawyer and policy expert by training. She was one of the founders of the Zone Nine bloggers, a group formed by Ethiopian online activist’s blogging on human rights and democracy issues since 2012. She also coordinated the Ethiopia Human Rights Project (EHRP), a project which seeks to bolster the advocacy work done by domestic and international actors to advance human rights in Ethiopia. Soleyana has international experience on advocacy, democratization, and policy research. She was charged under the country's former Anti-Terrorism Proclamation as a lead defendant and she got back to Ethiopia after five years of political exile and joined the reforming National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), as a communications Advisor and Spokesperson. She led the credibility and transparency strategic pillar of the organization for three years before she left the NEBE. She is currently an independent consultant.
- Email: soleyanashimeles@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911673333
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COMMUNICATION/LEADERSHIP/GENDER Zewdie has twenty-five-year career working in UNICEF for women’s advancement in Ethiopia, following nine years working in Ethiopian government Ministries in radio programming and in promoting family life education; involved in the preparation of women’s national policy and constitution; prepared manuals on gender auditing, mainstreaming, and gender analysis and trained many men and women in government and in civil society in bringing gender concerns and analysis to the forefront of their work. She was involved in civil society’s works as a general assembly and board member/chair as well as contributing professional advice, leadership, and policy ideas on the welfare of children and women. Zewdie was able to contribute to a progressive women’s policy promulgated by the Transitional Government in 1993, to contribute to progressive language on women’s and children’s rights in the Constitution adopted in 1995, and to train many government and non‐government leaders in gender-sensitive development practices during her long career. She has Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication and Social Science, and master’s degree in Educational Administration. Zewdie has received numerous certificates, letters of appreciation, gifts from ministries, international organizations, regional governments, NGOs, religious organizations, civil societies, and farmer’s and women’s associations. Enat Bank, initiated by some of Ethiopia’s leading businesswomen, named one of its branches in her name.
- Email: zewdieabegaz@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251920958063
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DISABILITY ADVOCATE Dibabe is Executive Directress of Ethiopian women with disability national association and a founder and member of Sexual and Gender Based Violence women movement campaign led by Network of Ethiopian Women’s Association(NEWA), she is board member in Ethiopian Disability Action Network, an advisory committee member in Ethiopian Civil Society and executive committee in Ethiopian civil society organization national counsel, member in African Women in dialogue, East African Women Human Rights Defender and Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Ethiopian Disability Act draft committee, and Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs report organizer committee. Currently, she is a General Manager at Ethiopian Women with Disabilities National Association and as a leader and a woman with disability herself. Dibabe has led disability movement campaigns, met with Addis Ababa Mayor and decision makers and lobby for inclusive service delivery, and advocate for women with disability rights. She is a woman with disability who, despite facing multifaced challenged in her country, surpassed challenges and used them as an opportunity to grow and be an advocate for all persons with disability to exercise their human rights fully.
- Email: dibababebacha1@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251911874359
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DISABILITY ADVOCATE Firehiwot is intersectional disability advocate (self-advocate) from Ethiopia who has extensive experiences in disability inclusion, gender mainstreaming, youth participation at national, continental, and international level, including in the UN system. She is currently Project Officer at the African Disability Forum (ADF) for the “We are Able!” project in Ethiopia, advocating for disability inclusive food security programs and policies. In addition, she led on and provided technical support for ADF’s initiatives on Gender, Youth and Inclusion, including the Young African Women with Disabilities Leadership Program, the first in its kind pilot program that aimed at increasing and improving meaningful representation of young African women with disabilities in leadership and decision making. Before joining ADF in November 2021, Firehiwot worked at the H.Q. of the ILO in Geneva, as Jr. Gender Equality Officer, and Jr. Technical Officer on disability inclusion. She has working experiences in Ethiopia, Ghana, the U.S. and Switzerland. Firehiwot earned her Master’s in Disability Studies from Syracuse University in New York, with Scholarship award from Open Society Foundations. She was also an awardee of Open Society Foundations’ Civil Society Professional Program and is an alumna of the Young African Leaders Initiatives (YALI) RLC East Africa.
- Email: fsiyum@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251910466718
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DISABILITY ADVOCATE/WOMEN RIGHTS Mihret is an immediate past President of Federation of Ethiopian National Association of Person with Disabilities, because of this position she has been advocating for the rights of more than 20million people with disabilities in Ethiopia. She is also current President of Fikir Ethiopian National Association on Intellectual Disabilities. Mihret is also a chairperson to Advisory committee of Ethiopian Women Human Right Defenders Network. She is also one of the founder and current President of Special Olympics Ethiopia -which is a sport federation focusing on people with Intellectual Disabilities. Mihret got Postgraduate in Development Management program, another MA in Project Management and Bachelor’s Degree in Management Information System from different universities. She is one of the fellows of BRIDGE CRPD-SDG Disability right movement for East-West Africa. Mihret has a total of more than 15 years’ work experience as Executive director, Program Manager, Team lead, Project officer & Trainer (i.e. social and economic development issues including Knowledge management, Disabilities Right, UNCRPD, SDG, GBV, Sex workers, and HIV/AIDS) with in NGOs and Organizations of People with disability. Mihret is a proud Rotarian full time volunteer who believed in ‘Service above self’. Apart from all the above volunteer leadership contribution, she is also working with Inclusion Africa as an Inclusive Education Regional Program Coordinator and this work engaged her to advocate for the rights of people with intellectual disability at Africa regional level specifically within 23 African countries.
- Email: mahinigusse@yahoo.com
- Mobile Number: 251911305850
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LAWYER/DISABILITY ADVOCATE/ SOCIAL WORKER Rigbe is a diversity and inclusion advocate with over 14 years’ experience, working on disability rights and gender justice through research, advocacy, project management, training and human resource management. She is a Mandela Washington Fellow and has served in the East Africa Regional Advisory Board for the Mandela Washington Fellowship. She holds a Master of Social Work and a Bachelor of Laws. Besides having a physical disability, herself, Rigbe developed interest towards disability rights advocacy after working for a Non-Governmental Organization on the Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, which exposed her to issues and challenges faced by Persons with Disabilities in general and Women with Disabilities in particular. Rigbe was also involved in her own private practice carrying out social consultancy for vulnerable groups focusing on Disability Inclusion. She is currently working as the Commissioner for Disability Rights and Rights of Older Persons at the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. Prior to that, she worked at the U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa as a Senior HR Assistant and Disabilities Advisor. As part of her voluntary activities, Rigbe has worked as a legal aid counselor at the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA) and a project facilitator for non-governmental organizations working on disability inclusion. She is currently an expert member of the Working Group on the Rights of Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities in Africa. She is a board member of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA Network), co-founder and board member of the Ethiopian Lawyers with Disabilities Association, co-founder and board chair of Setawit NGO, and a board member of Eyu-Ethiopia. She has served as a board chair of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA), a member of the National Experts Board/Advisory Group of the Resource and Support Hub Program and a member of the UN Women Civil Society Organizations Advisory Group.
- Email: hagrigbe@gmail.com
- Mobile Number: 251911451104