About

I am agriculturalist and economist

Skills

  • Project Monitoring & Evaluation training
    10
  • Logistics and supply chain management diploma
    8
  • GIS & Remote sensing training certificate
    7
  • Kobo
    8
  • Advanced excle and Power BI certificate
    8
  • English
    8
  • Amharic
    10

Experience

Fikru Denbu

Education

Fikru Denbu

Work experience
  • Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Expert at   MOA
  • Develop and implement a robust monitoring and evaluation system that will ensure tracking of agricultural project/ programme results at different levels (outputs, outcomes and impact).
  •  Coordinate and facilitate the development and use of appropriate MEL systems and plans and provide technical guidance to the technical programme staffs and partners in implementing them.
  •  Take responsibility for ensuring donor’s MEL systems are fully achieved for reporting results. Ensure project teams are familiar with these.
  •  Coordinate the development of integrated work plans that help to facilitate the implementation of projects with shared responsibilities and joint efforts.
  •  Provide alert to the respective programme officers/ managers, on corrective actions required to avoid delays in implementation, including flagging operational issues and risks requiring timely actions.
  •  Coordinate and implement baseline surveys, assessments/studies and evaluation exercises.
  •  Work to ensure project teams are able to disaggregate data by gender and age, where appropriate, by devising and disseminating simple data collection methods.
  •  Provide a ‘quality assurance’ function to ensure that data reported by projects within the programme is relevant, accurate and verifiable.
  •  Undertake regular monitoring and assist the team of all consortia partners at field level that program activities are implemented and outputs achieved as planned.
  • Ensure the project’s log-frame and data collection plans are regularly reviewed and refreshed, and the project is collecting the breadth of indicators required at a frequency and timing in line with reporting purposes.
  •  Ensure that the project is regularly conducting beneficiary surveys, collecting basic data as per the data collection plan from relevant sources, developing case studies and collating photos.
  •  Ensure data reported by projects feeds back and is used for programme management and decision making.
  •  Provide technical and capacity building support to project implementing partners;
  •  Work closely with relevant staff of partners to ensure regular data collection, analysis and reporting;
  •  Ensure regular and sufficient communication with programme staffs and partners on the overall MEL development and coordinate and cascade any learning that will enhance MEL activities.
  •  Participate in quarterly project progress review sessions: in-depth review of financial spend/burn rate; achievement against activity and output plan, and a forward look on whether the project is achieving against its objectives.
  •  Provide technical as well as capacity building support to partner organizations, ensure use of relevant standard data collection tools.
  • Provide critical analysis and technical input to project evaluation processes,
  •  Prepare different training documents on the area of MEL, project management and coordination and deliver for field staff and other partner staffs.
  •  Facilitate different capacity building trainings and workshops
  •  Ensure that cross cutting issues such as participation, gender, age and disability are effectively addressed/ mainstreamed in all project implementations as part of ensuring accountability according to program framework

Fikru Denbu

Work experience
  • Senior Project Monitoring & Evaluation Expert at   BoF
  • Develop and strengthen monitoring, inspection and evaluation procedures
  •  Monitor all project activities, expenditures and progress towards achieving the project output;
  •  Recommend further improvement of the logical frame work;
  •  Develop monitoring and impact indicator for the project success;
  •  Monitor and evaluate overall progress on achievement of results;
  •  Monitor the sustainability of the project's results;
  •  Provide feedback to the Project Manager on project strategies and activities;
  •  Suggest strategies to the Project Management for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the project by identifying bottlenecks in completing project activities and developing plans to minimize or eliminate such bottlenecks;
  •  Report monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual progress on all project activities to the concerned governmental bodies and NGOs.
  •  Conduct capacity assessment on existing monitoring and evaluation system Develop indicators and a monitoring strategy for the project;

Fikru Denbu

Education

Fikru Denbu

Work experience
  • Agricultural Supervisor at   MOA
  • Actively participate in regular planning, monitoring and evaluation of plant, animal & natural resource community level applied different agricultural technology packages.
  •  Schedule and make periodic visits to farmers
  •  Demonstrate feeding techniques and instruct on proper health maintenance of livestock
  •  Demonstrate and teach proper growing and harvesting practices
  •  Advise farmers concerning financial planning and management
  •  Assist farmers with soil and herbage collection for sampling purposes
  •  Assist farmers with the purchase and sale of supplies and goods
  •  Conduct agricultural research, analyze data, and prepare research reports based on findings
  •  Act as an advocate for farmers or farmers' groups
  •  Conduct field demonstrations of new products, techniques or services
  •  Coordinate kebele water shade management site selection and natural resource management activities.
  •  Provide technical support to the pre-harvest & post-harvest handling of cereal, pulse, fruit & vegetable crop and transportation system & marketing of local crop products.
  •  Monitor & evaluate all tasks on site practically & give feedback to all concerned bodies.
  •  Manage relationships with farmers, ensuring that pilot farmers are well-trained and fully aware of the activities being undertaken on their fields, and monitoring the farmers’ progress and performance.
  •  Prepare and summit weekly, monthly & quarterly report & evaluate performance of the expert base on annual plan.

Fikru Denbu

Education
  • September, 2006 - December, 2010

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