Shiferaw Negesse
Adiss Ababa,AA
Summary
Strategic planner and stakeholder manager with experience in driving environmental policy initiatives. Leadership and project management skills have facilitated execution of multi-million euro projects focused on sustainable land management. Data analysis expertise supports collaboration and innovation for effective resource utilization.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ADVISOR (OROMIA REGION)
GIZ
Adiss Ababa
07.2024 - Current
- Advise the regional BoA on the further development of regional policy and institutional frameworks for participatory/bottom-up natural resource management (CBLM/SLM).
- Facilitated policy stock-taking, identified ILM/SLM implementation challenges and policy gaps, and developed strategies to address institutional bottlenecks from regional to local government levels.
- Assisted the region in identifying NRM/SLM implementation challenges and institutional bottlenecks, informing policy and strategy improvements from regional to local government levels.
- Support the federal CLM office in assessing, reviewing, and analyzing policy issues relevant to regional governments, including ESIF revision, site selection criteria setting, technical work group guidelines, gender studies, and Think Tank group establishment guidelines, among others.
- Facilitate and coordinate the design and implementation of targeted capacity-development measures for regional and local partners.
- Facilitate and coordinate the effective and efficient service delivery of the CLM program and execute project activities using financial and other resources in accordance with GIZ management principles and guidelines.
- Represent CLM at regional and federal platforms, such as technical task forces, platforms, and communities of practice.
- Organize and liaison internal studies and documentation, such as on gender, socio-economic surveys, SLM/SURED/CLM experiences and lessons on management and utilization of rehabilitated watersheds, and other best practices.
- Participate in and contribute to program staff efforts to prepare multi-year work and budget planning, joint reviews, and annual operational plans by incorporating regional needs.
- Organized regional events and workshops to strengthen platforms such as TTGs, engaging key partners and stakeholders to enhance collaboration.
- Managed end-of-project activities from CLM-I, including asset transfers to partners, local subsidy document handling, and collection of remaining funds from recipients.
- Closely collaborate with the program team and regional BoA on site selection fulfilling all necessary criteria, regional technical group establishment, and initiation of inception-phase activities.
PROJECT MANAGER (OROMIA REGION) FOR CLIMATE SENSITIVE INNOVATIONS FOR LAND MANAGEMENT (GIZ-CLM - I)
GIZ
Adiss Ababa
05.2022 - 06.2024
- Successfully manage regional administrative, financial, and implementation-related activities and support to regional partners, ensuring the execution of climate-sensitive innovative technologies and approaches for the sustainable use of rehabilitated land through Community-based Land Management (CBLM).
- Advise the Board of Agriculture (BoA) on the further development of regional policy and institutional frameworks for participatory/bottom-up sustainable community-based land management (CBLM).
- Facilitated identification of NRM/SLM implementation challenges and policy, strategy, or institutional bottlenecks from regional to local government levels.
- Coordinated design and implementation of targeted capacity-development measures for regional and local partners to enhance community-based land management.
- Support the federal CLM office in reviewing and analyzing policy issues relevant to regional governments, cascading and facilitating region-level tasks, studies, and organizing consultation workshops.
- Organize project annual work and budget planning, joint reviews, joint supervision missions, and platform-strengthening events involving all partners.
- Maintain effective communication between regional CLM and development-partner organizations.
- Represented CLM at regional platforms and events.
- Facilitate and coordinate the effective and efficient service delivery of the CLM program; lead regional staff and utilize financial and other resources in accordance with GIZ management principles and guidelines.
- Facilitate and coordinate day-to-day financial and administrative operations of the region by mobilizing project staff in close collaboration with the federal team and implementing partners.
- GIZ - ETHIOPIA - ADISS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
PROJECT MANAGER (DV) FOR THE EU SUPPORT TO SLM PROJECT
GIZ
Adiss Ababa
07.2019 - 12.2021
- Successfully led the GIZ delegation role as direct management for EU support to the SLM project, overseeing a total funding of EUR 20 million (EUR 9 million via GIZ and EUR 10 million via KfW).
- Managed technical and financial control of EU project expenses (EUR 9 million) and coordinated activities across country offices (Ethiopia and Djibouti) and Bonn headquarters, ensuring compliance and alignment with project objectives.
- Effectively communicated and liaised the project implementation with the EU Delegation to Ethiopia (EUD), development actors (KfW, WB, etc.), implementing partners (MoA, regional bureaus, woredas), contractors, grant finance recipients, and internally with GIZ processes up to headquarters (Bonn), ensuring smooth implementation.
- Planned human resources need, conducted recruitments (up to 36 staff positions), and managed personnel and offices across four locations, systematically filling gaps during departures without compromising project performance and technical cooperation.
- Represent GIZ on EU financing at regional and federal levels for communication, implementation issues, meetings, and reviews, highlighting sound cooperation and acceleration of project implementation.
- Prepared five EU project reports (four annual and one final), receiving positive feedback from EUD for change management and performance adjustments during COVID-19.
- Organized and led internal surveys (e.g., tracer studies on knowledge, practice, and attitude changes), farmer satisfaction with training, and human-interest stories; documented lessons learned and produced EU visibility and promotional materials.
- Managed over 100 national and international contracts (construction, consultancies, international grants, local financing, and local subsidies), all successfully concluded without breaches.
- Coordinated financial verification tests, including international external audits, EU second-level audits, grant-financed project audits, and periodic internal control assessments.
- GIZ - ETHIOPIA - ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
ECO-REGION PROJECT COORDINATOR EU SUPPORT TO SLMP, YAYU COFFEE FOREST BIOSPHERE RESERVE
GIZ
Adiss Ababa
03.2017 - 06.2019
- Coordinated technical assistance to enhance government partners' capacity in participatory planning, technology selection, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation processes in Yayu eco-region.
- Organize and coordinate the ecoregion team on executing project activities, organizing training on community-based participatory watershed development planning and community awareness raising.
- Coordinated stakeholder meetings at ecoregion level to align project goals.
- Facilitated and coordinated financial, management and administrative issues at ecoregion level.
- Closely work with and support the project manager (EU support to SLMP) both at federal level and Bale eco-region team in filling the gaps during the project's inception phase and to bridge the coherence of technical implementation among the two eco-regions based on earlier experiences.
- Facilitated the establishment of the project's platforms (steering and technical structures) from region to community levels.
- Participated in pre-selection, and recruitment of the EU support to SLMP staff, not only for Yayu eco-region but also for the federal and Bale eco-region.
- Liaised and moderated cooperation and coordination issues with regional partners.
- GIZ - ETHIOPIA - ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
SENIOR WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT AND SWC CLUSTER ADVISOR FOR GIZ - SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (GIZ - SLM)
GIZ
Adiss Ababa
10.2010 - 03.2017
- GIZ - ETHIOPIA - Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA
- Advised over 100 woredas on watershed management planning and execution with donor funded projects such as WB group, DFATD (Canadian support), KfW, EU - GCCA-E Project and others.
- Facilitated recognition of numerous target woredas under my advisory support as top performers, leading to awards at federal and regional events.
- Conducted hundreds of participatory watersheds planning studies (socio-economic and biophysical), prepared multiyear strategic plan documents, and executed as per the plans.
- Advised and led implementation of over five donor-funded projects in various regions.
- Coordinated hundreds of national and regional trainings and workshops, enhancing skills in planning and review processes.
- Well-known by creating difference on training in conveying the required skills and gearing the audience towards putting into practical application.
- Participated in various joint monitoring and impact assessments, result-based participatory monitoring, reviews, and impact evaluation missions.
- Developed training manuals, materials, and progressive PowerPoints for government partners, strengthening capacity-building initiatives.
Team Leader
Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise
Adiss Ababa
12.2007 - 09.2010
- Led and technically managed plantation nursery operations.
- Led forest and non-timber forest products development team to improve resource management practices.
- Led and carried out forestation and reforestation programs in the enterprise concession areas.
- Led and carried out forest resource inventory/assessment, border demarcation, and development activities.
- Led study team for 6 months to design organizational structure reform (Business Process Reengineering) for Oromia Forest & Wildlife Enterprise, resulting in extensive system improvements functioning across the region for thirteen years.
DIFFERENT POSITIONS AT WOREDA LEVEL FOR 11 +1 YEARS
Minstry of Agriculture, Ethiopia
10.1996 - 11.2007
- Conveyed technical expertise on land management such as gully rehabilitation, degraded land restoration, forestry actions and soil fertility management through adult focused participatory training approaches at federal, regional, zonal and woreda levels with extraordinary knowledge and skill transfer ability.
- Led technical teams and community empowering and mobilization activities in different institutions enabling the team and community perform best with rewarding achievements; usually recognized by out of the box and creative resource mobilizing approaches.
- Facilitated organization of thousands of natural resource management working groups, with most recognized for performance and many receiving awards at national and regional events.
- Engaged with partners, different stakeholders, and development partners in realizing community based participatory land use planning, and innovative income generation activities for livelihood improvement.
- Coordinated & worked in collaboration with various projects financed by multiple donors such as GIZ, KfW, WB groups, World Vision, and other local and international NGOs' like IFSP/SUN Amhara, MfM and Farm Africa.
- Worked on Participatory watershed development (PWD), participatory forest management (PFM), Community-level Conflict and Dispute management (CDM), Participatory Land Use Planning (PLUP), Sustainable Utilization of Natural resources (SUN) and household income development activities for livelihood improvement.
- Carried out land resources assessments and land use class characterization, Land capability and Suitability survey in selected areas including formulation of the development options for identified land class units through community participation.
- Assisted decision makers in formulating conflict resolution schemes for natural resource management, enabling timely actions on forest landscape restoration, area closures, gullies, and communal land management.
- Led coordination of innovative social development projects including self-help bridge construction, forest regeneration, community access roads, small-scale irrigation, and water-point developments.
Education
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BSC) - Forestry
Hawassa University, Wando-Genet Collage of Forestry
Wando Genet, Ethiopia10-2008
COLLEGE DIPLOMA - Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization (AGEM)
Adiss Ababa University Awassa College of Agriculture
Hawassa, Ethiopia06-1995
Skills
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Project Management skill
- Budgeting, Resource Allocation and management skill
- Organizational and Strategic Planning skill
- Budget management
- Stakeholders and Partners management
- Data Management and analysis
- Communication coordination
- Coaching mentoring
- Leadership skill
- Facilitation moderation
- Communication, Coordination and Liaison
- Workshop Facilitation
- Facilitation and Moderation Skill
- Presentation and audience management
- Adult training skill
- Conflict management
- Time Management
- Stress management
- Adaptability and resilience
- Flexibility and creative thinking ability
- Trust Building and Rapport
- Problem solving
- Conflict management skill
- Self-transforming Outlook and Retrospective Skill
- Change management
- Strategic planning
- Report writing
- Microsoft office, Teams and one drive
- Geo-spatial data Management skill
- Geographic Information Systems
- Data Visualization
- Visual Communication
- Digital Media Production
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Information Management
- Google Drive
- Zoom
- Zoom
Certification
- Upside - A Self-Transforming Leadership Experience, GIZ _ AIZ, Hybrid
- Big Picture of Development Cooperation (GIZ) - Modules and Practice, GIZ _ AIZ, Hybrid
- Public Policy analysis and formulation, Hawassa University Private consultants, Presential
- Compliance module for Managers, GIZ _ AIZ, Online
- Data Protection and information security, GIZ _ AIZ, Online
- BasiQ and BasiQ Plus (Leadership I & II), GIZ _ AIZ, Presential
- Capacity Works, GIZ _ AIZ and international consultants, Presential
- Coaching Principles, Methods and Tools, GIZ _ AIZ, Presential
References
- Melaku Tadesse, Dep. Prog. Manager, Climate Sensitive Innovations for Land Management (GIZ- CLM), +251 911 22 47 18, melaku.tadesse@giz.de
- Habtamu Hailu, National Program Coordinator, Sustainable Land Management Program (SLMP), MoA, 0911315390, habtamuhailu@yahoo.com, habtamuhailu910@gmail.com
- Mersha Argaw, Project Manager, Delegation of the European Union to Ethiopia, 0912150402, mersha.argaw@eeas.europa.eu
Languages
Affaan Oromo, C2, C2, C2, C2, C2, C2, C2, C2
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 04/24/76
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Ethiopian
- Work Permit: Ethiopian
Phone Number - Mobile
(+251) 0911728119
Timeline
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, RESOURCE EFFICIENCY ADVISOR (OROMIA REGION)
GIZ
07.2024 - Current
PROJECT MANAGER (OROMIA REGION) FOR CLIMATE SENSITIVE INNOVATIONS FOR LAND MANAGEMENT (GIZ-CLM - I)
GIZ
05.2022 - 06.2024
PROJECT MANAGER (DV) FOR THE EU SUPPORT TO SLM PROJECT
GIZ
07.2019 - 12.2021
ECO-REGION PROJECT COORDINATOR EU SUPPORT TO SLMP, YAYU COFFEE FOREST BIOSPHERE RESERVE
GIZ
03.2017 - 06.2019
SENIOR WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT AND SWC CLUSTER ADVISOR FOR GIZ - SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM (GIZ - SLM)
GIZ
10.2010 - 03.2017
Team Leader
Oromia Forest and Wildlife Enterprise
12.2007 - 09.2010
DIFFERENT POSITIONS AT WOREDA LEVEL FOR 11 +1 YEARS
Minstry of Agriculture, Ethiopia
10.1996 - 11.2007
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BSC) - Forestry
Hawassa University, Wando-Genet Collage of Forestry
COLLEGE DIPLOMA - Agricultural Engineering and Mechanization (AGEM)
Adiss Ababa University Awassa College of Agriculture