Fekade Teshager Member

I am working for Agro-Business Induced Growth Program in Amhara region (AgroBIG II) as Value Chain and Market System development advisor for Finnish based international consulting company NIRAS. The program has two basic components: Access to finance (loan & grant) and Capacity building for value chain actors. Prior to this position, I was working for SNV Netherland Development organization coordinating a three-year comic relief funded project referred to GYEM (Gender and Youth Empowerment in Horticulture Market project) in Southern region. The project had four major components: Farmers’ Field Schools and VSLAs, Market system development, Women & youth job creation and Gender mainstreaming.
In general, I have 10+ years professional work experience in various positions from expert to team leader in different organization. My key competence areas are value chain & market system development, women & youth business opportunity identification and Result based project management.