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Name: Mintesinot Azene Taye (Ph.D)
Cell phone: +251 (0) 920 51 97 37
E-mail: mintesinotazene@yahoo.com
Nationality: Ethiopian
Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy): 05/ 09/1980
Sex: Male
Current Professional Status: An Assistant Professor of Environment and Development Studies.
Degrees:
BA in Geography, MSc in Environment and Development Studies, MSc in GIS and RS -geoinformatics, and PhD in Environment and Development Studies.
Ph.D. Dissertation: Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Variability in the Agro-ecological Zones of Jema watershed, the Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia.
Current Job and position:
Director of the Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies (IDRMFSS).
Course chair of climate change and development stream
An assistant professor in the Department of Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development; and consultant in the area of risk management and adaptation strategies.
Community Service/Project: Establishing model climate smart village to enhance the livelihood of the local people in the Gilgel Abay Watershed, Lake Tana basin, Ethiopia. To be finalized within 3 months. Sponsored by USAID.
PI for a mega research project: ANALYSIS OF RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY STATUS IN UPPER BLUE NILE BASIN, ETHIOPIA. To be finalized within 3 months. Sponsored by Bahir Dar University.
Articles published at an indexed journals/web of science
1. Analysis of the Spatial Variability of Soil Texture in a Tropical Highland: The Case of the Jema Watershed, Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/9/1903.
2. Analysis of the Spatial Patterns of Rainfall in Tropical Highlands: The case of Agroclimatic Zones of Jema Watershed, North West Highlands of Ethiopia. https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/review_info/f60f054d7c4762e4497b2b4134c6eeef.
3. Land Use Evaluation over the Jema Watershed, in the Upper Blue Nile River Basin, Northwestern Highlands of Ethiopia. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/8/3/50/pdf
4. Rainfall Variability across the Agro-Climatic Zones of a Tropical Highland: The Case of the Jema Watershed, Northwestern Ethiopia. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/6/11/118.
5. Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Estimates for Meteorological Drought Analysis over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Geosciences, 10(9), p.352. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/9/352.
6. Taye MA. Agro–ecosystem sensitivity to climate change over the Ethiopian highlands in a watershed of Lake Tana sub–basin. Heliyon. 2021 Jul 1;7(7):e07454.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021015577
7. Admasu, T. T., Damtie, Y. A., & Taye, M. A. (2022). Determinants of Livelihood Diversification among Households in the Sub-Saharan Town of Merawi, Ethiopia. Advances in Agriculture, 2022.
Other articles:
- The Comparative Advantage of Acacia decurrens and Eucalyptus globulus Plantations on Income and Soil Carbon in the Highlands of Ethiopia….Accepted with minor comment.
- Carbon Stock Potential of Highland Bamboo (Yushania alpina) over Plantation Niches of a Tropical Highland, Northwestern Ethiopia. Under review.
Licences:
Ø A Consultancy Licence in Research and Development, and
Ø A Higher Diploma Licence as a Certified Professional Educator.
Ø Certified to drive 4WD.
Language
Ø Professional language: English.
Ø Mother tongue: Amharic.
Ø I am very interested to learn other languages.
Professional and consultancy experiences:
- Date: starting from September 15th, 2004 up to now.
Occupation or position held: trainer, instructor, and researcher.
Main activities and responsibilities: teaching and advising students in the area of community based risk assessment, vulnerability, climate change, drought, livelihood, adaptation their academic/research activities, and doing research.
Name and address of employer: Bahir Dar University; Bahir Dar Town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: academic and research institutes.
- Date:September 2018 GC till now.
Occupation or position held: a coordinator of a climate risk, adaptation and development project.
The project is hosted by the Blue Nile Water Institute, Bahir Dar University, and sponsored by Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research (PEER), USA. The intervention site of the project is South Mecha District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Main activities and responsibilities: establishing climate smart villages in the Blue Nile Basin by integrating natural resources conservation with livelihood improvement, conducting feasibility study, characterizing intervention watersheds, preparing a training manual, prioritizing development interventions in Lake Tana Basin, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
- Date: Starting from December 04, 2009 up to now.
Occupation or position held: A Course Chair (a leading professor) for climate change and development post graduate course stream, and Disaster Risk and Development Course Streams
Main activities and responsibilities: Provision of short-term training, presenting seminars, and evaluating the process of course delivery system. The program is
Name and address of employer: Department of Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development, Bahir Dar University; Bahir Dar Town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: Academic, training, and research institutes.
- Providing training to organization for Rehabilitation and Development in Amhara (ORDA) title “Climate change Adaptation and Mitigation (resilience), and Integrated Watershed Management” from November 3 to November 7, 2018. The trainees were rural development agents (please contact ORDA, Ato Alemnew, 0930416355). The certificate is being prepared.
- Conducting environmental impact assessment and related studies for various projects including agro-processing factories and farms starting from the last five years.
Type of business or sector: Academic and Development institutes: Bahir Dar University and Addis Ababa University together with Amhara Bureau of Agriculture.
- Date: December 03, 2017 to December 13, 2017.
Occupation or position held: a consultant/trainer.
Main activities and responsibilities: preparing a training manual, providing WASH staff on GIS based mapping and analyzing WASH facilities in Dolo Ado, Norwegian Refugee Council_NRC, Somali Regional Sate Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: International NGO, Norwegian Refugee Council, Somali Regional Sate Ethiopia.
- Date: starting from September 15th, 2004 up to now.
Occupation or position held: an instructor, researcher and trainer.
Main activities and responsibilities: teaching and advising students in their academic/research activities.
Name and address of employer: Bahir Dar University; Bahir Dar Town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: academic and research institutes.
- Date: September 1997 to 20003.
Occupation or position held: Preparation of training/educational manual entitled “Natural Resource Management”, Teaching courses: climate change and natural resources management.
Main activities and responsibilities: A leading writer of the manual
Name and address of employer: Geography and Environmental Studies Department, Bahir Dar University; Bahir Dar Town, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: Academic and research institutes.
- Date: starting from September December1, 2011 GC up to January 30, 2013 GC.
Occupation or position held: Consultant/Preparation of training manual entitled “Integrated Bioeconomy System for Enhancing People’s Livelihood”
Main activities and responsibilities: A leading consultant/writer of the manual
Name and address of employer: Bioeconomy Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: Development organization, international NGO.
Type of business or sector: Academic and research institutes.
Date: October 3rd, 2011 to April 27th, 2012.
Occupation or position held: a research assistant. The title of the research was international land deals/investment in Ethiopia: opportunities and challenges to the livelihood and environment of the local people. The study was conducted in Gambella, Oromia and Benshanguel Gumuz Regional states.
Main activities and responsibilities: reviewing literature, supervising the data collection process, and data management.
Name and address of employer: Eastern and Southern Africa Research Centre (OSSREA) and Addis Ababa University, both are found at Sadist Kilo campus, Addis Ababa university Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Type of business or sector: academic and research institute.
- Date: July 2011 to August 2011.
Occupation or position held: a supervisor to a national survey research.
Main activities and responsibilities: coordinating, facilitating and supervising the data collection process conducted in Sothern Nation National People Region, Ethiopia.
Name and address of employer: Kilimanjaro International Transformational Consulting and Training Center; it is found in Dar-Es—Selam, Tanzania.
Type of business or sector: research and training consultancy centre.
International visits (academic and research)
1. USA, Florida International University for 6 months in 2008 E.C. To enhance my research skills and knowledge as to finalize the Ph.D dissertation.
2. Kenya, Jomokenyata University for a week in 2002 EC. To take part in a training entitled “ River Basin Management for Poverty Reduction”
3. South Africa, Stellenbosch University for a week in 2010 EC. To take part in a training entitled “Community based Disaster Risk Management in the Poor villages for Sustainable Development”
Principal skills
Provision of training; Leading a research and development project; provision of short term training; leading a national survey; Conducting analysis on components of vulnerability: exposure, adaptive capacity, socioeconomic analysis; sensitivity; climate variability and drought; environmental impact assessment; characterizing a watershed and agro-ecological/agro-climatic zones for integrated natural resources management at various scales; analysis of land use land cover, land capability and land suitability.
Software (computer) skills
Application of programs like ArcMap, ERDAS, and Google earth imagery, DrinC, SPSS, R-statistical software, for analysing socioeconomic and biophysical data sets including satellite imageries.
I advised a number of postgraduate students while doing their thesis on various topics including vulnerability and risk management, adaptive capacity and adaptation strategies, livelihood diversity and food security, sensitivity, climate variability, drought, and contribution of various plantation for income and climate change/carbon stock.
Education and training
- Dates: October 10th 2010/11 to June 30th, 20 15/ 16 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: PhD in Development Studies (specialized in Environment and Development)
Dissertation: Livelihood Vulnerability to Climate Variability in the Agro-ecological Zones of Jema watershed, the Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Addis Ababa University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Bahir Dar University, SIDA (Sweeden), Addis Ababa University and USA.
· Title of qualification awarded: MSc in Geo-informatics_GIS and RS in 2020GC from Bahir Dar University.
Title of the thesis:Evaluation of Satellite Rainfall Estimates for Meteorological Drought Analysis over the Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Bahir Dar University, academic and research institute, Ethiopia.
Funded by: Bahir Dar University
· Dates: September 2005- July 31, 2007 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Master of Arts in Development Studies (specialization in Environment and Development Studies).
Thesis Title: Watershed management:Effects and problems: The case of MERET (World Food Program) Project, Amhara National Regional State, Ethiopia.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Canadian Bureau for International Education.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: September 2001- July 2004 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Bachelor of Geography.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Thesis Title: Factors Affecting Soil Erosion in Agricultural Lands of Mecha District, Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Bahir Dar University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Bahir Dar University, Ministry of Education.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: February 13th 2013 to February 27th, 2013 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: GIS (ArcMap) and ERDAS software application for analyzing spatial data integrated with socioeconomic attributes.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Bahir Dar University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: 23 to 27 October 2017 (five days) GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate/letter
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered_Training Title: Community Based Disaster Risk Management.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Stellenbosch University, South Africa, academic, training and research institute.
Funded by: Periperi U_African network for building a disaster risk resilient community.
Level in national or international classification: an international research and development organization.
· Dates: 26 July to 30 July 2010 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered_Training Title: Integrated River Basin Management.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, academic, training and research institute.
Funded by: Cap-Net UNDP, Nile IWRM-Net, UNEP-DHI Centre for water and environment.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: August 20th to August 31st, 2012 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: statistical software (SPSS) application for analyzing socioeconomic data.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Thematic research fund for climate change, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
· Dates: August 2010 to September 2010 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate in GIS.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: GIS software application for disaster and risk management. Data visualization, preparing thematic maps, joining attribute data to spatial data and report writing.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Bahir Dar University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Disaster and Risk Management Bureau and UNICEF.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: September 15 to 20, 2014 GC.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate in Bio-farming.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: Bio-farming principles and practices.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training: Bahir Dar University, academic and research institute.
Funded by: Disaster and Risk Management Bureau and UNICEF.
Level in national or international classification: at federal government level.
· Dates: August 1 to October 1, 2006.
Title of qualification awarded: Certificate in leadership and management.
Principal subjects/occupational skills covered: skills and principles of leadership and maangement.
Name and type of organisation providing education and training:VECOD, Local NGO, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Funded by: VECOD.
Level in national or international classification: Local NGO.
Reference persons
1. Belay Simane (Professor): Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, P. O. Box 1176 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; simaneb@yahoo.com; Cell Phone: +251911223044.
2. Degefa Tolossa (Professor): Centre for Environment and Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, P. O. Box 1176 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; email: degefatd@gmail.com, Cell Phone: +251911899660,
3. F. Zaitchik (Ph.D): Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA; zaitchik@jhu.edu;
4. Yihenew G. Selassie (professor): College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Bahir Dar University, P. O. Box 5501 Bahir Dar, Ethiopia; yihenewgs@gmail.com; and
5. Shimelis Setegn (Ph.D): Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Florida International University, 11200 S.W. 8th st., Miami, FL 33199, USA; ssetegn@fiu.edu.
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