Director

Belay Mulat

An expert evaluation professional with over 12 years of experience working in rural and urban contexts. He has worked with a diverse set of clients, including UN agencies, the World Bank Group, Johns Hopkins University, USAID, University of East Anglia, NGOs, private and government research institutions- Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI- Currently Policy Studies Institute), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), World Resources Institute (WRI), GIZ, Brooking Institute, LINC/IRC WASH, among others. He is also experienced in program design, management, and monitoring and evaluation.

Belay’s field experiences span the areas of climate change, nutrition, agriculture, WASH, food security, and education. Belay has coordinated large-scale research projects, including the Agricultural Growth Program (mid and end-line evaluations), PSNP Impact evaluations, DANIDA, EU-RESET, CRGE (Implementation of Strategy Monitoring and Evaluation System), FLR, PARI (Agricultural Innovation), and Competitiveness and Job Creation. Through managing these projects, Belay has been involved in developing proposals, writing inception reports, providing training for field supervisors and enumerators, data analysis, and report writing.

Belay is skilled in basic STATA, Survey CTO, CSpRo, and GIS applications. Belay has a Master’s in Developmental Economics and Population studies.

Founder

Nolawi Taddesse

An international development professional with 10 years of experience working with diverse clients. Amongst the many organizations, some include; The World Bank, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Innovations for Poverty Action, PricewaterhouseCoopers Associates, and the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). He is currently the founder of Node. Nolawi is skilled in working collaboratively with key partners to facilitate complex project implementation and capacity building. Nolawi is well-practiced in contributing to research and evaluation implementation, grant proposals, and communicating technical advice. He possesses key skills needed for leading evaluations, including data collection design, data management, and M&E capacity building in both quantitative and qualitative protocol design. Nolawi received his Master’s in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan USA.

Programmer

Libnedengel Tesfaye

Libnedengel is a Computer Engineering graduate of Addis Ababa University (AAU) with a combined six years of experience in the fields of technology and research. Libnedengel has been involved in programming/coding quantitative survey questionnaires. He has prepared project-specific handbooks (user manuals) and provided extensive training to enumerators and field supervisors on how to use digital data collection tools. He is well versed in using statistical software like SPSS and STATA and has prepared/written different analytical syntaxes. He is well versed in Statistical Packages: STATA, SPSS, SurveyCTO/ODK programming/ KOBO Toolbox, Basic ArcGIS and QGIS, Web development, Software Development, Android app development, SEO Optimization, Excel Interactive Dashboard Design, XLSForm Design using EXCEL, SPSS Syntax programming, Design, Collect, Analyze and Export surveys using different survey platforms.

Administrative and Finance Assistant

Hana Temesgen

Hana is Node’s administrative and finance assistant. She graduated from Admas University with a Bachelor of Arts(BA) in Accounting and finance. Hana has over three years of experience as an accountant and cashier for various organizations. Most recently, she was the accountant and cashier for Konjo Multimedia. Her previous role included working for the Addis Ababa Trade Bureau as a budgeting officer.

Sector Experts, Field Supervisors, Data Collectors, and Qualitative Researchers will be provided from Node’s resource pool. We also have part-time consultants specializing in health, gender, social development, and livelihoods. Node Consult has a roster of fully vetted field supervisors and enumerators for data collection as needed by our clients.