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.