Betelhem Ephrem Zekeke

• Led the gender and youth component of a proposal development process on Food and Agriculture System Transformation (FAST) for USAID fund to be implemented in Ethiopia.
• Identify and establish partnership with women, youth and disability focused local organizations in Ethiopia for FAST proposal.
• Provide technical assistance to ensure ALLIANCE TO ACCELERATE AGRICULTURAL GROWTH (3GA) projects’ action research are conducted with gender, youth, and social inclusion lens.

• Conducted gender analysis for Tanagers’ client- WFP's East Africa Regional Office Livelihoods and Food Systems programme.
• Developed case studies on WFP's gender transformative food systems programming in East African Office.

• Managed contributions/projects in accordance with procedures of (Sida)
• Led gender mainstreaming in the entire regional strategic focus areas and portfolio
• Engaged in policy dialogue with the cooperation Pan-African partners on gender equality
• Participated in consultations and coordination with donor groups
• Worked with Sida’s HQ gender team and contributed to disseminate knowledge and information on gender equality priorities
• Organized capacity strengthening initiatives on gender mainstreaming.

• Conducted gender analysis on adolescent sexual reproductive health and nutrition as part of a proposal development on adolescent nutrition programming.

• Provided techinical assistance on gender for the assessment of EYE Community-based Business Groups (CBGs) Programme

• Mainstreamed gender in proposals development and develop standalone gender equality focused proposals
• Managed gender equality and child marriage focused project and supervise staff
• Contributed to the development of the global child marriage prevention and response toolkit and the gender and power analysis tool
• Developed gender mainstreaming guidelines to ensure the effective integration of gender equality issues in thematic areas including livelihoods and agriculture, health and nutrition, child protection, sexual reproductive health and rights, youth empowerment, education, child rights governance
• Facilitated trainings and workshops to systematically built organizational and staff capacity on gender issues including GBV, unpaid care work, PSEA
• Organized a learning event on best practices to prevent and respond to child marriage in Ethiopia with the involvement of key governmental and NGO actors
• Conducted organizational gender equality self-assessment and research including gender-based barrier analysis, formative research, SGBV KAP and risk assessments in development & humanitarian contexts
• Actively engaged in regional gender community of practices, global child marriage and gender equality working groups
• Led SCI’s gender community of practice and the gender and nutrition technical working group.

• Growth through Nutrition Activity
• Conducted gender analysis in multi-sector (Health, Agriculture, Livelihoods, WASH, Education) nutrition context for Growth through Nutrition project, and disseminate findings to project staffs, partners, and stakeholders
• Built the technical capacities of project staffs and government stakeholders on gender mainstreaming and unpaid care work
• Developed a business model on energy efficient stoves to respond to the unpaid care work of women
• Developed gender integration strategy, programming tools and guidelines to enable project staffs integrate gender equality issues in nutrition sensitive agriculture, nutrition specific interventions, WASH, pre-service education, SBCC, M&E and learning
• Integrated gender norms and practices in social and behavioral change communication approaches to addresses the social norms and barriers that contributes to poor maternal child nutrition outcomes
• Integrated gender in different assessments such as Formative Research and Trials of Improved Practices
• Established and maintain partnership with government offices, NGOs, and other stakeholders
• Cross-Country Thematic Lead for Gender Mainstreaming and

• Prepared materials and delivered training on the prevention and response to gender based violence during emergencies for Oromia and Somali zones government stakeholders in Moyale.

• Provided multilateral technical support to CARE Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda offices, and their partners in mainstreaming gender at all levels of project implementation
• Conducted institutional gender capacity gap assessments in CARE Ethiopia country office and develop capacity building plans to fill gaps
• Provided overall guidance and support in developing gender mainstreaming strategy for the three COs and working out detail implementation plan in the specific contexts with support from the CO teams.

· Developed training manuals, tools and provide capacity building training on gender and women empowerment for staffs, community members and partners.

· Implemented women empowerment and gender equality strategies.

· Conducted gender analysis at project levels in long-term development and humanitarian contexts.

· Coordinated in-country gender advisors for harmonized support to projects as well as to the SLT.

· Led the development of Social Action and Analysis (SAA) minimum standard as well as pastoralist SAA tool.

· Designed female only internship program, which led to the recruitment of a CO gender and diversity officer.

· Collaborate with global CARE staff on gender equality issues, and managed international consultancies.

· Ensure women empowerment and gender equality issues are mainstreamed in development program/project design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning processes.

· Participated in new business development processes to mainstream women gender equality.

· Mainstreamed gender equity and gender-based violence issues in humanitarian/emergency responses.

· Participated in baseline/mid-term/end-line evaluations to ensure gender issues are well addressed.

· Established and maintain networks with other organizations working on gender issues.

· Documented good practices and dissemination at organizational as well as program level.

• Developed training manuals and deliver trainings for government stakeholders on Gender and Development, Transformational Leadership, Gender Based Violence, Gender Audit and Budgeting, Workplace Gender Policy, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Analysis
• Conducted action research, gender analysis and gender audit.

• Bio-Economy Africa
• Monitor and Supervise Projects from a gender perspective
• Facilitated trainings to staff, partners, and project participants.

• Delivered lectures on Philosophy courses.