DEREJE BISRAT KEFYALEW
Summary
Dereje Kefyalew is an M&E and organizational development professional with 15 years of experience working mostly for international and local NGOs and CSOs engaged in multifaceted development and humanitarian interventions in Ethiopia. In addition to M
Overview
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years of professional experience
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Work History
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager/Program Specialist
The Kaizen Company
05.2015 - 02.2018
- I led a consultancy work on the civil service reform program and decentralization in Somali Regional State of Ethiopia.
- As a result, the regional stated developed a service delivery standards and service charter for five regional bureaus including the water and mining, justice, education and health bureaus.
- I developed an M&E system for MSH/SCMS.
- This encompassed an M&E plan, result and logical frameworks where in data sources and stakeholders are clearly identified, data collection tools, data aggregation and disaggregating criteria (gender and disability concerns) and reporting modalities and template are developed.
- As a result, the project had successfully monitored the implementation of its annual work plans and managed to take corrective measures on plans which were lagging while capitalize on strength.
- I compiled 15 quarterly and five annual work plan and key indicators performance reports for MSH/SCMS.
- These reports helped management take strategic and operational decision making on resource allocation and mobilization and organizational restructuring.
- The reports, in addition helped MSH/SCMS keep donors and government partners abreast the project progress.
- I also presented reports to donors and head quarter n semi-annual basis.
- I developed training modules in M&E, data quality assurance and assessments, data visualization, preparation of SOW for program and project evaluation supportive supervision and trained local implementing partners of USAID and staff of SCMS and government partners.
- The training enabled participants improve and sustain a monitoring an evaluation system which is vivid from the capacity assessment which I recently conducted n 24 Local NGOs and CSOs where in the average M&E capacity score increased from 1.77 in 2014 to 2.64 in 2015 on 4 scale measure.
- I led the organizational capacity assessment (OCA) of 24 local partners of USAID in August 2015 with special focused on M&E, Project management and governance.
- I also assisted the OCA which focused on financial system and human resource and administration.
- Based on the OCA, Kaizen was able to segmented LIP and develop a capacity development plan which is part and parcel of the work plan for fiscal year 2016 ( covering October 2015-Septemeber 2016) I built the capacity of members of five water boards as part of the World Bank funded water and sanitation project in five small towns (Bekoji, Dhera, Ali, Goljota and Dollomena) in Oromiya region.
- I also lead the development of business plans for water enterprises of these five towns.
- Leads institutional and organizational capacity assessments.
- Works with target NGOs working on climate change, food security and livelihood, health, education and human right to offer tailored technical assistance & training to improve project management and M&E and facilitates peer-to-peer learning among and within target NGOs.
- Develops, implements, and provides oversight of the performance management and reporting system, including updating the M&E plan and ensures the accuracy and effectiveness of calculation methodologies.
- Establishes data collection and management systems.
- Support data collection, collation and analysis of LCD activities, tracks performance data, and verifies data for quality assurance.
- Prepares and submits required performance reports to USAID, including the reporting of M&E data in AID Tracker+.
- Supports the M&E Manager to design and conduct diagnostics for project management (PM).
- Reviewed the M&E plan of three local implementing partners and assisted in developing a USAID compliant monitoring and evaluation plan.
- Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor, Management Sciences for Health / Supply Chain Management System (MSH/SCMS), Ethiopia, January 2009-May 2015.
- Responsible for developing reliable monitoring and evaluation systems at all levels of health commodity supply chain from procurement to storage and distribution, including institutional capacity building in supply chain to government counterparts and non-state actors engaged in the fight against HIV/AIDs, TB and malaria.
- Design partnership and outreach strategy that mapped all stakeholders' intervention areas.
- Conduct baseline and institutional capacity assessments.
- Organize trainings targeting government and other partners in the health system to redress performance gaps.
- Conduct training needs assessments.
- Design a communication strategy, and developing tools for data quality and stock out assessment.
Emergency Relief Project Manager
Afar Pastoralist Development Association
10.2008 - 01.2009
- Lead and initiate an early warning and disaster assessments.
- Manage water trucking and livelihood recovery interventions like restocking of cattle, construction of water ponds and rural.
- Provide M&E training and organize self-help women groups.
- Organizational Development and Training Expert, Nile Consulting Group PLC, Ethiopia, June 2006-September 2008.
- Lead a team of expertise engaged in a project on the Somali regional state of Ethiopia civil service reform and public service delivery program.
- Apart from the lead role, assess and develop the minimum service delivery standard and monitoring and evaluation framework for Education, Health, Water, Livestock and Agriculture, Justice and Rural Road Bureaus in the Somali region.
- Participate in a World Bank-funded water and sanitation project study for the five towns of Oromiya region: Bekoji, Ali, Goljota, Dhera and Dolomena contributing to the feasibility study, business plan, and capacity building of town utility board members; Information Officer, Christian Relief and Development Association, Ethiopia, January 2004-June 2006.
- Serve as secretary of the change management taskforce for CRDA and produce the change management plan.
- Design tools and coordinate survey on implementation of an institutional capacity building assessment of local NGOs and CSOs in Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia.
- Edit monthly newsletters published in Amharic and English.
- Compile information on best practices in good governance, gender, urban development, and HIV/AIDS.
- Support the CORE-Group Ethiopia's polio surveillance activities and campaigns.
- Organize events like the national NGO days.
- Facilitate and organize a civil society group to observe the 2005 national election.
- Produce resource materials for the civil society sector such as donor and membership profiles.
CONSULTANCIES
01.2007 - 01.2016
- Designed youth workforce and entrepreneurship devolvement program for Angwa plc ( Canada based consulting firm).
01.2016
- Trained Medda Wolabu University medical faculty staff on project design and M&E through HE consultancy.
01.2016
- Trained members of the Ethiopian Private Health Association on resource mobilization and funding through Abt.
- Associate and HE consultancy.
- 2014: Developed a communication strategy and offered training on communication for project focal persons and program heads of CHADET (a local NGO engaged in child protection, youth employment and livelihood and girls' education).
01.2012
- Conducted research on value chain assessment of waste water irrigation-based vegetable products in Addis Ababa and the city's vulnerability to water-mediated climate change impact under the auspices of the UrbAdapt project of Addis Ababa City Administration.
- Played a pivotal role in research design, document review, facilitating focus group discussion, identifying climate change indicators, mapping climate change actors from government, private and civil society sectors, and conducting institutional capacity and policy framework.
- 2007: Served as a technical assistant to selected non-state actors in the development of concept notes and full proposals for a project titled 'Earning a way out of pastoral poverty through governance, service delivery and capacity building for 23 Afar Women's Associations.' Won funding for the project in 2008.
Education
MPA - Public Administration
Addis Ababa University
2007
BA - Management
Addis Ababa University
2005
BA - English
Addis Ababa University
1995
Skills
business plan, business plans, concept, data visualization, feasibility study, irrigation, Publisher, newsletters, Organizational Development, procurement, project design, SPSS
Skills
&E, Mr Kefyalew's expertise includes communication and knowledge management, advocacy, performance management, capacity building and training of public, private, and civil society organizations, governance and decentralization and civil service reform at local and national levels Mr Kefyalew is proficient in MS Office Suite, EPi, SPSS, Publisher and Visio
Timeline
01.2016
01.2016
Monitoring and Evaluation Manager/Program Specialist
The Kaizen Company
05.2015 - 02.2018
01.2012
Emergency Relief Project Manager
Afar Pastoralist Development Association
10.2008 - 01.2009
CONSULTANCIES
01.2007 - 01.2016
MPA - Public Administration
Addis Ababa University
BA - Management
Addis Ababa University
BA - English
Addis Ababa University