Selected experience
A selection of engagements across strategy, policy, market shaping, and implementation, spanning Ethiopia's health, agriculture, and industrial sectors.
Thirteen engagements across four themes. Filter to narrow the list.
Strengthening how institutions and enterprises plan, govern, and deliver.
Turning economic evidence into investable policy and regulatory reform.
Structuring markets, financing models, and partnerships that bring in private investment.
Generating the evidence base that keeps large public investments accountable and on track.
Ministry of Industry
Designed and delivered a capacity-building programme to sharpen the Ministry's project planning, execution, monitoring, and governance practices, strengthening its ability to deliver strategic industrial development initiatives.
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MRC-ET
Advised one of Ethiopia's pioneering molecular diagnostics companies through an organisational diagnostic, enterprise valuation, and growth strategy, sharpening performance and positioning the business for long-term, investable growth.
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EPOSPEA / GIZ
Assessed the barriers, regulatory constraints, and value-chain dynamics shaping investment in Ethiopia's pulses and oilseeds sector, translating findings into policy recommendations to strengthen private investment and competitiveness.
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Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI), AGRA, Ministry of Agriculture
Modelled the fiscal and economic impact of import-tax exemptions on mechanisation, irrigation, and livestock feed using cost-benefit and econometric analysis. The evidence informed a national tax policy reform benefiting smallholder farmers and value-chain actors.
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Ministry of Health
Mapped financing sources, projected investment needs, and sustainability risks for Ethiopia's Health Extension Programme, and proposed financing strategies to underpin its long-term roadmap.
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BGI
Diagnosed the structural constraints and growth opportunities across Ethiopia's pharmaceutical sector and shaped recommendations to strengthen local manufacturing, competitiveness, and resilience.
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Marie Stopes International Ethiopia (MSIE)
Tested the feasibility of employer-supported health insurance to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services for low- and middle-income workers at mass employment centres, examining financing, employer appetite, and policy implications.
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Multi-partner consortium
Advised a consortium of partners on the design and governance of a public–private partnership platform to expand access to quality diagnostic services across Ethiopia.
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Resolve to Save Lives
Mapped Ethiopia's financing landscape for pandemic preparedness, surfacing investment flows, financing gaps, and priority areas that shaped the National Action Plan for Health Security.
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Ministry of Health, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Tracked national investments and supply systems for COVID-19 diagnostics and therapeutics, strengthening visibility for planning, coordination, and resource allocation during the pandemic response.
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Last Mile Health
Compared blended-learning delivery models for community health worker training, generating cost-effectiveness evidence to guide more efficient, scalable workforce investment.
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Last Mile Health
Ran multi-year resource-gap analyses of Ethiopia's Community Health Programme, informing financing priorities and sustainability planning for the programme's continued strengthening.
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Cordaid
Independently evaluated the implementation effectiveness, financing mechanisms, and outcomes of Ethiopia's Performance-Based Financing programme to inform future policy and design decisions.
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