Institution (Date from - Date to)

Degree(s) or Diploma(s) obtained:

Addis Ababa University

(Sep. 1997 – July 1999)

M.Sc, Economic Policy Analysis, (July, 1999);

Thesis -- ‘Rural Poverty’

Addis Ababa University

(Sep. 1982 – July 1987)

B.A Economics (July, 1987)

ILO Making Microfinance Work

ILO - Certified Trainer in Microfinance (Aug 2012)

Language

Reading

Speaking

Writing

English

1

2

2

Amharic

1

1

1

Country

Date from - Date to

Ethiopia

Home country

Liberia

May – July, 2017; Nov – Dec 2018

Uganda

Mar-Apr 2011, Aug 2011, Dec, 2010, Dec 2008 – Jan 2009;

Ghana

 --- 2006, Sep, 2011

Kenya

July – Sep 1998; ---- 2003; ---- 2007 --- 2009

Rwanda, Senegal, Nigeria, Italy, Luxembourg, Finland, Philippines, Vietnam, Zambia, Malawi, Spain, Netherlands, Mozambique, Austria, Zimbabwe, UAE

Workshops, conference, Trainings (various days)

Date from - Date to

Location

Company

Position

Description

April 2022

Ethiopia

Intellecap Advisory Services

SMEs business advisor

Supporting and advising SME partners (engaged in Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) related activities:- Conduct needs assessment of selected SMEs, develop action plans of enterprises, organise technical assistance meetings and workshops, specify the support instruments to train and coach the SMEs in business advisory and investment readiness, organise investment forum and matchmaking events between SMEs, investors networks and financial institutions, etc.

Oct 2021 – April 2022

Ethiopia

NIRAS Consult, AgroBIG Eth

Cooperatives Agric-lfinance consult

Member of a team for recommending sustainable management of cooperative unions fund used for financing multi purpose cooperatives, Savings and Credit Cooperatives, as well as women and youth micro and small entrepreneurs in Amhara region

Sep 2021– Feb 2022

Ethiopia

EU Delegation, DT Global (Gino Cesshini, gino.cecchini@hotmail.com), Dr. Zerihun Desalegn, zerihundg@gmail.com)

Youth & Women MSME finance Specialist

Part of an international team of (6) experts in a Scoping Mission, to provide technical assistance to the Delegation of European Union to Ethiopia, in the analysis and pre-identification to support Ethiopia’s Food System  Transformation and Agro-industrialisation agenda, funded by European Commission.

https://www.findevgateway.org/finequity/blog/2021/04/understanding-how-psychosocial-elements-womens-groups-contribute-building-resilience

https://www.e-mfp.eu/blog/international-women-s-day-new-approach-financial-inclusion-women#comment-9316

April – May 2021

Virtual

LASER-PULSE, USIAD, Purdue Univ (Pamela McClure (pmcclure@purdue.edu), Betty Bugusu (bbugusu@purdue.edu

Research proposals evaluator

Member of an international experts’ team (of four) to review Research Projects to be financed under USIAD’s ‘’Long-Term Assistance and Services for Research – Partners for University-Led Solution Engine (LASER-PULSE) (Purdue Univ); Panel on:-: ‘’Gender and Women Empowerment’’ including -- Women Refugees Survivors of Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Human Rights Abuse

Nov 2020 – March 2021

Ethiopia

FRONTIERI Consultants group (Ref: Dr. Fantu Gutu, fantuguta@yahoo.com; Nigusie (n.shiferaw@frontieri.com)

Youth Employment expert

As a team member of 11 experts organized under the MasterCard Foundations ‘’Youth Africa Works’’ programme, conduct an assessment of the opportunities and challenges of employment for youth in Ethiopia…(including extensive desk review, conducting FGDs and KII with partners, stakeholders, and potential beneficiary youth)

Dec 2019 – Feb 2020

Ethiopia

Oxfam Novib (Carin Boersma -- carin.boersma@oxfamnovib.nl)

Youth empowerment research

Assessment of effective tools for empowerment of youth, through primary and secondary data collection, and promoting gender equality (e.g though GALS)

https://www.emotiveprogram.org/challenge/youth-gender-champions/empowerscale/analysing/

https://oxfam.app.box.com/s/duq44j19xy4rdirah4kfhfu2mxs168qh

Aug 2019 – March 2021

Ethiopia

ICCO/STARS Strengthening African Smallholders

(Firew Mosisa -- firewm27@gmail.com), Geerts (oscar.geerts@cordaid.org, (orgeerts.sbn@gmail.com); Martha (marthayilma12@gmail.com)

Agri-Finance Services Advisor

STARS programme is implemented by ICCO in partnership with MasterCard Foundation, targeting 210,000 small holder farmers (especially those commercial and semi-commercial farmers active in value chains, SMEs) in Rwanda, Ethiopia, BurkinaFaso and Senegal, addressing challenges they face such as limited skill, lack of credit, minimal access to market, etc. Key responsibility: capacitating financial service providers, strategies on local saving mobilization, promoting partnership among grass-root actors (e.g financial service providers, agricultural extension, private agro-dealers, business development service providers, etc.

https://seepnetwork.org/files/galleries/ToR_for_loan_product_development_(1)_(2).pdf

http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/es/member/getaneh-gobezie, http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/comment/8741

Aug 2019 – March 2020

Ethiopia

Catholic Relief Service (Ian –:

Ian.DeLaRosa@crs.org, Tamirat,  

woldegiorgis_t@yahoo.com, Teklemariam, tekleawoke2006@gmail.com

Study Team Leader, and youth expert

Assessment of challenges, barriers and opportunities for women, youth and Persons with Disabilities who are participants at the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), and organized at the Saving and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) groups to access and use of finance from Financial Service Providers (MFIs, SACCOs). Focus on challenges and potential of linkage of SILC groups with financial service providers (MFIs, SACCOs, etc). Responsible for coordinating, designing study approach, questionnaire, final report write up, etc. Evaluation Report: https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00WKC4.pdf

Sep – Nov 2019

Virtual

Work and Opportunities for Women -- DfID (Tasneem Salam: tasneemsalam1@gmail.com; info@sddirect.org.uk

Study Team Member, WOW Helpdesk Query 28 (on-line)

An on-line assessment of Women’s Economic Empowerment and Gender Equality and Social Inclusion within the Horn of Africa Programme design. Objective: to inform the design of the PF Horn of Africa Programme to ensure the greatest potential for transformative outcomes to women entrepreneurs, traders and market actors in Ethiopia and Somaliland, with sustainability in mind. FINAL Report (Tasneem Salam and Getaneh Gobezie)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/876231/Query-28-WEE_and_GESI-Horn-Africa.pdf

May – July 2019

Ethiopia

CARE --

Mike DeVries, Team Leader (mdevries02@yahoo.com), John Meyer CARE/VESA head (john.meyer@care.org); Adam

tefera_adam@yahoo.com

Self Help Groups (SHGs), Finance Specialist

Feed the Future – Livelihoods for Resiliance Activity is part of the US Government’s global initiative, designed to reduce food insecurity and increase resilience for households under the Government of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP 4) (2016-2021). The main purpose of this mid term evaluation is to provide the project team, USAID, and other stakeholders with an objective assessment of project progress towards achieving its objectives, the effectiveness of project technical and financial management, appropriateness of staffing and partnership structure, etc. As an Inclusive finance specialist, I focussed on assessing access to finance to the poorest, especially those in rural areas, including through linking Village Saving and Loan Associations (VSLAs) with MFIs/Banks.

http://careevaluations.org/wp-content/uploads/Livelihoods-for-Resilience-MTSR-Report.pdf

Feb – Apr 2019

Ethiopia

BDS-CDR, Plan International Germany (Dr. Sinidu Kebede

(s.kebede@bdscdr.com); Dr. Atlaw Alemu (atlawalemu@yahoo.com)

Labour Market, Youth employment, senior researcher

Develop project proposal to implement Plan International Germany’s initiative entitled PASEWAY) ‘’Pathways for Sustainable Employment for Women and Youth (especially those at risk of migration).  Specifically: develop a work plan, conduct in-depth desk review of labour market for youth women, the disabled, etc, including assessment of effectiveness of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVETs), Business Development Services (BDS), SME finance, etc, as well as support and directly involve in labour market field research, identify and select partners, develop a project proposal, and facilitate workshops, promoting partnership among grass-root actors (e.g financial service providers, agricultural extension, private agro-dealers, business development service providers, etc https://frontieri.com/?p=2216 https://frontieri.com/hello-world-3-2/; https://www.eeaecon.org/sites/default/files/publications/17th%20IC%20Proceedings.pdf

https://www.docdroid.net/Of2Pw4p/discussion-paper-youth-economic-empowerment-for-sustainable-development-kebede-et-al-2020-pdf#page=28

Nov 2018 – March 2019

Ethiopia

Frankfurt School of Finance and AEMFI; Ute Buehler, u.buehler@int.fs.de), AEMFI aemfiet@gmail.com

Certified Trainer

Certification of Technical Service Providers for Microfinance Institutions, a joint effort by Association of Ethiopian Microfinance Institution (AEMFI), Enterprise Partners (EP), and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Nov - Dec,  2018

Liberia

IFAD (Jakob Tuborgh) (j.tuborgh@ifad.org);

Ijeoma Emenanjo (iemenanjo@gmail.com)

Targeting, and Gender  and Youth Consultant

As a member of an IFAD Mission to Liberia tasked to design Smallholder agriculture Transformation and Agribusiness Revitalization Project (STAR-P), develop a targeting strategy, with targeting and implementation mechanisms, produce a gender mainstreaming strategy, to ensure the project identifies opportunities to support gender equality and women’s empowerment, ensuring household food and nutrition security, etc, with special consideration to ensure outreach to enterprises of women, youth, agribusinesses, SMEs, etc.  

Nov 2017 – April 2018

Ethiopia

Association of Ethiopian Microfinance Institution (AEMFI) and Wisdom Consult, Haileselasie Tsigie (wisdomconsult@ethionet.et), htzeghe@yahoo.co.uk), Mawardi (aemfiet@gmail.com) Seibel (Seibel@uni-koeln.de)

Consultant/Trainer

Prepare training material, and deliver training to staff of Microfinance Institutions on Local Saving Mobilization, as well as Inclusive Finance … sponsored by IFAD-supported Ruralfinance Intermediation Programme (RUFIP). The focus includes -- practical issues on saving mobilization, institutional capacities, branchless banking, digital finance, agent banking, etc Resource material posted at FAO: http://www.fao.org/fsnforum/sites/default/files/discussions/contributions/PARTICIPANTS%20Manual%205.pdf

https://uncdf.dgroups.io/g/finequity.snediscussion/message/59

http://assets.fsnforum.fao.org.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/public/discussions/contributions/PARTICIPANTS%20Manual%205.pdf

Jan - Mar 2018

Ethiopia

GENESIS-ANALYTICS Richard Ketley (richardk@genesis-analytics.com); Mark Schoeman (marks@genesis-analytics.com)

SME finance Consultant

As a local member of a study team formed by GENESIS-ANALYTICS, conduct a detailed diagnostic landscaping and assessment of the SME finance market in Ethiopia, challenges to the private sector growth, and employment creation to the youth. The landscaping study is part of a four country assessment (Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria) for the MasterCard Foundation.

https://agriprofocus.com/topic/finance_publications?topic=finance-publications

July – Oct. 2017

Ethiopia

Fair & Sustainable

(Victor van der Linden,

victor.van.der.linden@fairandsustainable.nl; Getachew Mekonnin, gechomek@gmail.com  , Maurice (mauricekoppes@gmail.com)

Study Team Leader (Credit Pilot Deep-dive study)

Coordinating the gathering of qualitative and quantitative information and analysis (a credit pilot deep dive study) of the baseline status and credit needs of vegetable farmers in Maki and Zeway areas, as well as malt value chain actors in Kersa/Arsi areas of rural Oromia. The assessment especially focussed on evaluating the effort of integrating credit services with agricultural input supply, targeting of beneficiaries, gender issues, coordinating actors in the value chain,

http://www.ruralfinanceandinvestment.org/node/3100; https://www.rfilc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/icco-ethiopia.pdf; https://agriprofocus.com/profile/7087

June – July 2017

Liberia

IFAD (Thokozile Theodora Newman - t.newman@ifad.org;

Joost Guinner - J.Gwinner@gmx.net, P Schoen - schoenpaul@hotmail.com

Gender, Youth and Targeting Specialist

Conduct a final evaluation of the IFAD- supported Agricultural Sector Rehabilitation Project (ASRP) which aims at improving production and productivity of small holder farmers in rural Liberia through the Lead-Farmer model, and produce a Completion Report. As a Gender, Youth and Targeting specialist, I focussed on assessing if the extension services have actually reached the target beneficiaries as planned, the beneficiary selection procedures, any impact (intended, unintended), and forward recommendations.

May – June, 2017

Liberia

IFAD (Eline Minneboo: (e.minneboo@kit.nl) Emiah Claire Louise Bilski (e.bilski@ifad.org)

Knowledge Management expert

The Smallholder Tree Crop Revitalization Support Project (STCRSP) (focus on cocoa and coffee) and Agricultural Sector Rehabilitation Project (ASRP) (focus on rice and cassava) generally aimed at improving food security, resilience, and empowerment of women, youth and other vulnerable groups; through enhancing farmers and their organizations (esp. cooperatives). Specific activity includes report on project achievement and develop a documaneting culture to generate systematic knowledge to be learnt from and used as a basies for scaling-up to provide input for other projects.

July 2016 – March 2017

Virtual

Lambert Academic Publishing (Andrie Lasinschi -- a.iasinschi@lap-publishing.com)

Author, books

Publishing books: Economic Empowerment of Women through Inclusive Finance: The Way to Ensure Food Security, Resilience, and Sustainable Development

https://www.amazon.com/Economic-Empowerment-through-Inclusive-Finance/dp/3330064404

Local Saving Mobilization: Practical Challenges and Strategies in Ethiopia and other African Countries

https://www.amazon.in/Local-Saving-Mobilization-Challenges-Strategies/dp/6202199105/ref=sr_1_1/259-6711969-0407746?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536147460&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AGetaneh+Gobezie

Dec 2015 – Feb 2016

Ethiopia

BDS-Center for Development Research (Dr. Dawit Bizuneh -- belewbizuneh@gmail.com)

WASH Study team member

Assessment of the Community-Led Total Sanitation and Hygiene (CLTSH) programme supported by UNICEF and GSF to promote sustainable Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Programme in multiple regions of the country, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, with special considerations for relevance, effectiveness and impact on beneficiaries, SME (masons), etc.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2015

Ethiopia

SNV-Meskay Consulting (Ref: Saroj Rai: SRai@snvworld.org; Bekalu Molla (BMolla@snvworld.org); Sleshi Temesgen: sleshitemesgen@yahoo.com)

Study Team Leader (BioGas, access to Credit for SMEs)

Study on Access to Credit for Bio-gas, and other renewable energy sources for households. The study aims to investigate the achievement in terms of enhancing access to microcredit for alternative energy sources to urban and rural households, as well as BDS providers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs, Masons) by service provider microfinance institutions and saving and credit cooperatives, facilitate effective public-private partnership (PPP), and design better strategies for Phase – II (next 4 years) of the programme.

June – July 2015

Harare and Dakar

AFRACA, IFAD-Africa, AGRA and ‘Research Meets Africa’ (sub-unit of University Meets Microfinance). Ref: Miriam Cherogony: mcherogony@ifadafrica.org, mcherogony@gmail.com

Coordinate Workshop :- Women Economic Empowerment

Facilitate Women Economic Empowerment and Gender workshop at the ‘’Regional Rural and Agricultural Finance Thematic Conference, Theme ‘’Regional experience on the Knowledge Sharing and Networking in Rural and Agricultural Financing’’10-12 June 2015, Harare, Zimbabwe, as well as at the ‘’Research Meets Africa (sub-unit of University Meets Microfinance) workshop, theme ‘’Accelerating Research on Innovations for Rural Financial Inclusion in Africa’’ June 29 – July 3, 2015, Dakar, Senegal. Final paper posted at:- ILO’s Making Microfinance Work: http://mmw.itcilo.org/en/trainer-s-area/copy_of_trainers-forum/gender-economic-empowerment-of-women-through-inclusive-finance/187069315

https://d3o3cb4w253x5q.cloudfront.net/media/documents/family_farming_web_7_women_en.pdf

April 2013 – Sep 2015

Ethiopia

DAI/First Consult  -- Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP) (Ref: Tony Storrow:

tonystorrow_affico@yahoo.co.uk, Anne Figge Gardner:

anne.figge@gmail.com,

Kenno Itana

kenno_itana@enterprisepartners.org

Asefa Aba: Asefa_Abba@enterprisepartners.org; asyeaddis@gmail.com

Maurice (mauricekoppes@gmail.com)

Women SME-Finance expert

Expert at Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP) under the Private Enterprise Programme in Ethiopia (PEPE) funded/supported by DfID & World Bank and implemented by DAI/First consult, Deliver Technical Assistance and training, introduce innovative approaches, to financial service providers, to enhance access to finance and BDS support (through collaboration with FeMSEDA) to SMEs owned (or partly owned) by women -- with a focus on business owners not well served by banks as well as by traditional group-based microfinance (the ‘missing middle’), as well as on-site visit and mentoring of target women. Conduct market research, individual interview and Focus Group Discussion (FGDs), supporting microfinance institutions on enhancing saving mobilization and financial education, to ensure households’ nutrition and resilience, Key issues covered on expanding access to flexible saving services include, operational issues, institutional capacities, branchless banking, digital finance, agent banking, promoting partnership among grass-root actors (e.g financial service providers, agricultural extension, private agro-dealers, business development service providers, etc. This was followed up by delivery of training and mentoring branch staff. (Publication - http://www.microfinancegateway.org/library/overview-practical-challenges-local-saving-mobilization-ethiopian-microfinance-institutions); http://www.eeaecon.org/node/8483;

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313675835_Local_Saving_Mobilization_-_Practical_Challenges_and_Potential_Solutions_in_Ethiopia

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9910/f2c33a7912e8eccc1be0f513a86b98885b65.pdf

file:///C:/Users/user/Downloads/dokumen.tips_microfinance-savings-in-ethiopia.pdf

Aug – Nov 2012 -

Ethiopia, multiple locations

Development Outcomes (DO) Ref: Miriam Cherogony: mcherogony@ifadafrica.org;  mcherogony@gmail.com

Participatory Microfinance consultant

Member of an international consulting team to evaluate the Programme for the development of Participative Microfinance and agricultural value chain support system in East Africa (supported by CIDR, especially in the regions of Oromia and Southern Nations and Nationalities of Ethiopia, implemented 2005-2011, under the IFAD Evaluation Framework:- relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, sustainability and impact.

https://www.cgap.org/blog/happiness-poverty-down

Nov – Jan, 2012

Valladoid, Spain

Oxfam-Novib & HIVOS (Ref:- Thies Reemer (thies.reemer@wur.nl), Dr. Linda Mayoux

(l.mayoux@ntlworld.com

Gender and Rural-finance consultant

Assist Microcredit Summit Learning Trajectory on Women Empowerment, Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN), have co-authored the gender and micro advocacy report, titled FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR GENDER JUSTICE (Linda Mayoux and Getaneh Gobezie) (see web link, further below)

https://vdocuments.mx/gobezie-oxfam-novib-comprehensive-journal.html?page=1

Oct – Nov 2011

Ethiopia, multiple location

Centre for International Dev’t & Training (CIDT), University of Wolverhampton, UK (Ref: Ella Haruna  ella.haruna@wlv.ac.uk

Saving & Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) dev’t consultant

Evaluation of Self Help Africa’s (SHA) Rural Savings and Credit Cooperative (RuSACCO) programme (2007-2011) delivered in partnership with the Irish League of Credit Unions Foundation (ILCUF) and Terrafina Microfinance (TMF)

https://www.cgap.org/blog/happiness-poverty-down

Sep – Oct 2011

Ethiopia, multiple locations

NATHAN Associates, UK (DFID, WB, IFC) Ref: C Bortes, CBortes@Nathaninc.com  Keith Reed, KEITHREED4@aol.com,

Ignacio Fiestas +44 (0)20 7902 7788

Private sector, SME finance Consultant

Member of an international consulting team for ‘’Ethiopian private sector analysis and wealth creation programme development project (a Joint DFID, International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Bank programme), to assess constraints to the growth of the private sector, especially SMEs, including barriers to effective partnership among grass-root actors (e.g financial service providers, business development service providers, etc .The study outcome has been a basis for design of the ‘’Private Enterprise Programme in Ethiopia (PEPE) and Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP), a 7 years programmes (start April 2013) to be implemented under supervision of DfID and the World Bank.

June – Aug 2011 -

Ethiopia

ACDI/VOCA (Tim Durgan, Eskindir Teshome (esktesh@yahoo.com)

Senior Ruralfinance Specialist

Senior ruralfinance specialist, for the Agricultural Growth Programme – Value Chain Expansion (AGP-VCE) managed by ACDI/VOCA, financed by USAID, facilitating finance to agricultural enterprises through diversifying existing financial products (under the Development Credit Authority, DCA), (Publication -- http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/csw/csw56/egm/Gobezie-RP-2-EGM-RW-Sep2011.pdf) (http://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-paper-wrap-up-empowerment-of-women-and-gender-mainstreaming-in-rural-microfinance-by-getaneh-gobezie-published-by-un-women-2011-17-pages-available-at-httpwww-u)

April – June 2011

Uganda, Kassasse District

Oxfam-Novib (Ref - Jeanette Kloosterman (Jeanette.Kloosterman@oxfamnovib.nl) or Thies Reemer (thies.reemer@wur.nl) Mari Hartl (m.hartl@fattore.org)

Gender and value chain consultant

Analysis of a case intervention that combine microfinance with value-chain support and capacity building on gender (Gender Action and Learning System (GALS)) aimed at women’s (economic) empowerment at Bukonzo Joint Rural Saving and Credit Cooperative (SACCO), Kassesse District, Uganda (Publication --https://www.findevgateway.org/case-study/2013/02/promoting-empowerment-women-and-gender-equality-through-integrated-microfinance (https://vdocuments.mx/gobezie-oxfam-novib-comprehensive-journal.html)  www.slideshare.net/GetanehGobezie/gobezie-oxfam-novib-comprehensive-journal

March 2011

Uganda, multiple locations

PROCASUR, IFAD (Ref: Maria Hartl; m.hartl@fattore.org

 D. Puyo (dpuyo@procasur.org)

Technical coordinator, Learning Route

Training on Gender and Microfinance, facilitating discussions and coordinating visits with host microfinance institutions, VSLAs, SACCOs and other community based organizations. Participants include practitioners from Africa, Latin America, Asia, etc

Sep 2010

Zambia, Lusaka

FAO and IFAD (Ilaria Sisto,

ilaria.sisto@fao.org; L. Mayoux (l.mayoux@ntlworld.com)

Gender and Ruralfinance Expert, Trainer

Training on Gender and Rural finance for participants in the Value Chain financing Thematic  Workshop. It aims at introducing new tools for rural finance actors for mainstreaming gender, draw innovative experiences. Participants are drawn from partner organizations of IFAD, FAO across different African countries.

January 2010 – June 2010

Ethiopia, Bahir-D ar

Blue Nile College (Ref: Alemayehu Yihunie, bnc@ethionet.et)

Microfinance Trainer (Foundation)

A Training programme under the Rural finance Intermediation Programme (RUFIP) jointly supported by UN-IFAD and AfDB). Training to microfinance managers on specific issues of rural-finance and rural development; community based organizations; gender, rural finance and entrepreneurship; microfinance regulations.

March - April

2010

Ethiopia, Bahir-Dar

SIDA/ORGUT Consult

Rural Dev’t Prog

(Ref - Håkan Sjöholm; hakan_s@fastmail.fm Haddis Mulugeta,

haddism@ethionet.et)

Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) finance Consultant

SIDA-Amhara Development Programme (SARDP) is an integrated programme, including microenterprise component, implemented in Amhara region supported by SIDA with the objective of poverty alleviation and enhanced growth. Activities:- Evaluate the Performance, Impact and Future direction of SARDP’s Enterprise Development Facility (EDF), which aims at facilitating growth of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through integrating microbanking with Business Development Service (BDS, facilitated by the Regional Micro and Small Enterprise Agency, ReMSEDA), linking SACCOs with Banks and MFIs, loan-guarantee schemes. (Publication -- http://fletcher.tufts.edu/praxis/archives/xxv/~/media/1A8A90F262D3449BBC8B389F0A979961.pdf)

10 Sep – 30

Sep 2009

Rwanda, Kigali

IFAD & FAO

(Ref - Hartl Maria (m.hartl@ifad.org; m.hartl@fattore.org)

Gender and Rural Finance Trainer

Deliver a training on ‘Gender and Rural finance for participants at the Value Chain Financing Thematic Workshop; under the theme: Reaching and Empowering Women, to participants drawn from partner organizations of IFAD and FAO across different African countries.

May 2008 --

July 2008

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

ILO (Sub Contracted by Zelalem Anteneh consulting)

Zelalem Antemeh (zelalemik@gmail.com)

Value-Chain Consultant

Assessment of Demand & Supply situation of rural microfinance in Cotton growing areas of Amhara region, Ethiopia --  detailed field survey, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) with microfinance clients and value chain actors (e.g, office of agriculture, and agricultural research, input suppliers, traders, microfinance institutions, etc). http://savingsanddevelopment.unibg.it/category/authors/gobezie-getaneh/

March 2008 --

April 2009

 Ethiopia, Benishangul, Addis Ababa

Addis Anteneh &

Associates (Ref: Addis Anteneh: addisanteneh@yahoo.com, AND zelalemik@gmail.com

Impact Assessment Consultant

National Impact Assessment (NIAS) of the Ruralfinance Intermediation Programme (RUFIP-I). Activities performed:  Conducted an Impact Assessment of the Benishangul Gumuz Microfinance Institution, which involved collecting both quantitative and qualitative data (including Focus Group Discussion, FGDs and Key Informant Interviews, KIIs), analyze them and develop final report. (Publication -- http://www.fao.org/ag/rurfinconference/docs/papers_theme_5/impact_assessment.pdf)

Jan 2000 – Sep 2009

Ethiopia, Bahir-Dar

Amhara Credit and Saving Institution (ACSI) (Ref – Gashaw Workineh (gworkneh@acsi-ethiopia.org),

Mekonnen (acsi@ethionet.et);

Zegeye Bantie (zegeyeb@care.org.et; zegeyebante@yahoo.com)

Deputy Managing Director (in charge of operations), Head of Planning and Monitoring Dep’t

ACSI works in one of the poorest and highly food in-secure regions in northern Ethiopia. Using the basic Grameen group guarantee lending model, customized to local realities, it managed to reach over 700,000 (2009) active poor credit clients working mainly on small scale farming, highly vulnerable to repeat food in-security, while achieving both operational and financial sustainability. It won a number of local and international awards. This includes those by the Grameen foundation, and the Microcredit Summit, as well as being selected as one of the top 50 MFIs globally (ranking the 6^th) by the Forbes American Business magazine in 2007. … Specific activities performed include: strategic leadership, coordination and monitoring operation, market research on savings and credit, facilitating finance to agricultural and rural enterprises through diversifying existing financial products, new product development e.g leasing, loan guarantee schemes, especially Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) loan targeting unemployed young people graduating from colleges, including the EU-funded 7 cities MSME finance programme. Coordinating the Credit with Education Programme, Social Performance, mainstreaming gender,  inclusive finance through Productive Safety Nets (PSNP); linking with SACCOs; SHGs.(Publication –

(http://www.fao.org/ag/rurfinconference/docs/papers_theme_5/impact_assessment.pdf)  

http://savingsanddevelopment.unibg.it/category/authors/gobezie-getaneh/)

https://www.findevgateway.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/mfg-en-case-study-reaching-more-savers-qa-with-management-and-staff-of-acsi-in-ethiopia-2006.pdf

https://www.findevgateway.org/sites/default/files/publications/files/mfg-en-paper-subsidizing-microcredit-interest-how-important-is-it-to-the-poor-0-2004.pdf

https://www.marketlinks.org/sites/default/files/resource/files/SC17.pdf

Jan. 2006 –

April 2006

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

WDIP

(Ref – Bekele Eshetu (byeshetu@yahoo.com)

Women Empowerment Consultant

Assessed the performance of the Women Development Initiative Programme (WDIP), a finance and business support programme (funded by the World Bank) with regards to improving poverty and food security situations, as well as empowerment of programme participants over the five years of its existence (2001-2005).

Jan – May 2005

Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

FACET-BV and AEMFI (Ref

Mr. Haftu Berihun

(haftub@yahoo.com, aemfiet@gmail.com

Consultant -Trainer

Under the IFAD & AfDB supported Rural Finance Intermediation Programme (RUFIP). Prepared Training Material on Research Methods, client survey and Impact Assessment for MFIs. The project drew a number (~13) of local microfinance experts and consultants, with the aim to building capacity of local professionals..

Dec. 1993 –

Dec. 1999

Ethiopia, East

Gojjam

East Gojjam

Planning and Economic Dev.

Department (Ref – Mr. Tadese Gemechu (tadegemechu@gmail.com)

Team Leader,

Social Services

Development

Planning Team

(Dec. 1993-

Dec. 1999)

*Coordinate and involve in the formulation of short, medium-term and long term development zonal plans, of different sectors in the context of the long-run Agricultural-Development-Led-Industrialization (ADLI) Strategy,

*Take part in decision processes to allocate budgets to Woredas (districts) to promote balanced development

*Formulate small-scale group/individually managed income generating projects (IGAs) aimed at rehabilitating and re-integrating civilians displaced from Eritrea, under Government Safety Net programme,

*Appraise the system of data collection, planning and evaluation, promoting participatory panning (PRA, RRA)

Sept.1987-

Dec.1993

Ethiopia, Addis

Ababa

Ministry of Coffee

& Tea Development (Ref -  Mr Yitbarek Befirdu (yitbarek_befirdu@yahoo.com)

Project

Planning

Expert

*Involve in the process of analysis and screening of Agricultural projects submitted by coffee & tea enterprises,

*Preparation of project proposals to enhance peasant and state coffee production, processing and marketing including working with ULG Consultants (UK) to prepare the EEC-financed 4^th Coffee Improvement Project (CIP-4),

*Involve in a wider field surveys in areas of Wush-Wush and Gumaro to assess the feasibility of tea production on peasant farmers’ holdings (estimate NPV, IRR, etc), for undertaking full scale study of Tea Out growers Development Programme (TODEP).