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Director, ECCO - Louis Nolet

Louis is responsible for the overall activities of ECCO, which provides support to CIDA and its executing agencies in planning and monitoring Canada's contributions to international cooperation.

 

Agricultural Growth Advisor - Etenesh Bekele

Etenesh participates in the preparation of country agricultural development assistance policies, programs, projects, analytical studies, and guidelines. She provides technical advice and services in the development and management of agricultural programs and projects; liaises with other development partners, governments, non-governmental organizations, education and research institutes, and the private sector. Etenesh also participates in donor coordination mechanisms as well as in GoE agriculture and PASDEP annual reviews; and performs other duties related to the conceptualization, design, approval, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation of CIDA’s investments in agriculture growth.

 

Rural Livelihood Advisor - Ahmed Mohammed

Ahmed provides strategic expertise on the rural livelihood and income diversification issues such as income generation activities, on farm and off farm income, credit and savings, marketing, cooperatives and other productivity issues in the context of CIDA's FSAG programmes.

 

Private Sector Development Advisor - Yared Fekade

Yared provides analysis and advice to CIDA on the enabling environment for private sector development in Ethiopia and growing role of the private sector in general, and more particularly as they relate to the CIDA Ethiopia Programme. He provides analysis on the situation of private sector development in Ethiopia, including: the appropriateness of the policy environment for private sector development; the private sector's contribution to growth in the Ethiopian context; constraints and challenges related to greater private sector development in Ethiopia; the quality of public-private dialogue on private sector issues; the quality and capacity of government initiatives to regulate and/or stimulate private sector development; the quality and status of other donor programmes in the area of private sector development.

Governance and Civil Society Advisor - Shimels Assefa

Shimels provides professional support to the design/development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of CIDA's bilateral democracy and governance programme in Ethiopia. He undertakes research and analysis in the areas of democracy, human rights, peace and conflict; and involves in policy dialogue with state (democratic) institutions. Shimels also provides strategic support to CIDA in its engagement with Civil Society Organizations.

 

Programme Advisor, Private Sector Development - Jerusalem Berhanu

Jerusalem supports the planning, design, implementation, monitoring and reporting of new CIDA private sector development initiatives in Ethiopia. She undertakes research on trends and events that will have an impact on private sector development in Ethiopia, and assist in identifying appropriate and reliable programme-level performance indicators for CIDA’s private sector development initiatives in Ethiopia.

Environment Advisor - Kidanemariam Jembere

Kidanemariam provides strategic inputs to the design, planning, implementation, monitoring of and reporting on CIDA FS/AG programming in the area of sustainable environmental and natural resource and sustainable land management, and related topics of relevance to improving environmental integration. He also review, analyze and appraise appropriateness and technical quality of proposed investments in the FS/AG thematic areas by CIDA (bilateral, partnership or other channels), with a focus on sustainable environmental, natural resource management and sustainable land management.

 

Gender Equality Advisor - Seblewongel Deneke

Seblewongel provides advice and technical assistance on gender equality issues and gender mainstreaming in the planning, implementation and monitoring of CIDA’s programs and projects in Ethiopia.

 

Gender Equality Advisor - Haregewien Admassu

Haregewien provides advice and technical assistance on gender equality issues and gender mainstreaming in the planning, implementation and monitoring of CIDA’s programs and projects in Ethiopia.

 

Economic and Financial Advisor - Berhanu Assefa

Berhanu undertakes various economic and financial policy analyses and provides advice to CIDA's macro economic, budgetary and public expenditure issues pertaining to its development support program in Ethiopia.

 

Capacity Building Advisor - Mary Breen

Mary provides expertise in the planning, implementation, design, monitoring and evaluation of the institutional capacity building elements of CIDA interventions in food security, agriculture and rural development. She advises the Embassy and CIDA, as well as government agencies and other donor partners.

 

Capacity Building Advisor - Tsedey Asheber

Tsedey provides specialist services in the capacity building field to CIDA's regional and multi-lateral programming, and to CIDA's Partnership with Canadians programming. She also provides specialist services in the capacity building field to the three programming teams of the CIDA Ethiopia Programme: the Food Security/Agricultural Growth team, the Sustainable Economic Growth/Private Sector Development team, and the Analyst team.

 

 

Information Technology Officer- Eyob Girma

Eyob provides technical support to the ECCO operation and CIDA programs/projects in a variety of IT related areas.

 

 

 

Human Resource Manager - Rahel Tsegaye

Rahel is responsible for the management of contracts for staff, consultants, private consulting firms and NGOs. She provides procurement guidance related to the selection process of local consultant. She is also responsible for making follow-ups on all contracts disbursements, requests Financial Encumbrance from CIDA and complete 1281 forms related to mission disbursements.

 

HRM Assistant - Rebecca Tsegaye

Rebecca is responsible to assist the management with the daily administrative functions of the ECCO with an emphasis on human resources management. She is responsible for supporting the internal office systems and their effective and efficient performance. She is also responsible to assist the preparation of ECCO reports, workplans and other documents required to fulfill CIDA, ECCO and GoE needs.

 

Finance and Administrative Manager – Aberra Gebreyohannes

Aberra is responsible for coordinating all activities and task in ECCO finance and administration section, Ensures that all documents and reports are prepared in due time with high quality standard and in fulfillment of CIDA Guidelines, rules and regulations. He is also responsible for conciliating all disbursement made by ECCO/Mission regarding the cooperation programme with CIDA-HQ reports.

Senior Accountant - Aster Kebede

Aster Aster maintains and operates ECCO’s computerized accounting records and processes all ECCO disbursement made by cheques or bank transfers. She prepares invoices and payments and completes other activities related to cost recovery. Aster also prepares ECCO financial reports and makes follow-up on audit report.

 

Senior Administrator - Berhanu Getachew

Berhanu is responsible for overall activities related to procurement and to the safety and maintenance of all ECCO assets. He is also responsible to provide support to ECCO Advisors and to CIDA Projects regarding monitoring of administrative and accounting follow-up on CIDA projects in Ethiopia monitored by ECCO advisors.

 

 

 

Finance Assistant and Records Operation Officer - Helina Ayele

Helina manages ECCO's Petty Cash and follows up on activities and services retated to customers invoicing/billing. She is also responsible for supporting the mission management, VAT reinbursement and repot plus withholding tax report. In addition, Helina handles ECCO's filing system.

 

 

Client Services Officer- Mekdem Zerfu

Mekdem is responsible to welcome all ECCO customers and to provide logistics services to ECCO customers, advisors and staff. She receives incoming and outgoing communications (telephone-fax-mail) and provides air travel, hotel and vehicles bookings.

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