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PERSONAL INFORMATION | Mekonen Getachew Abebe |
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|  B2R5, Zenzelma Campus, Bahir Dar, 5501, Ethiopia |
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 mekugeto@gmail.com / mekonen.getachew@bdu.edu.et | |
 www.bdu.edu.et/idrmfss | |
| Sex Male | Date of birth16/01/1995 | Nationality Ethiopian | |
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WORK EXPERIENCE | |
Since 21 July 2021 | Position: Lecturer |
Employer: Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, www.bdu.edu.et/idrmfss | |
Role: Course teaching: I taught major courses such as climate change, Earlywarning system, Livelihood, Food security, Disaster risk reduction, Disaster risk management, Community-based disaster risk management, Disaster risk reduction, Disaster risk financing and insurance, Sustainable development, Sustainable agriculture, Urban risk management, Climate change adaptation, and Emergency Management Research: My research interest includes but is not limited to, climate change, food security, sustainable livelihood, resilience, and sustainable urban development. Community services: provisions of training to the community and the factories around Bahir Dar city. This training includes but is not limited to emergency management, community-based risk assessment, fire risk management, early warning, agricultural risk management, and Livelihood profiling. Other duties: Curriculum review and development, national exit exam development for undergraduate students, conference organization, etc. |
22/10/2019-20/07/2021 | Position: Graduate Assistant II Employer: Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, www.bdu.edu.et/idrmfss Role: Guiding and instructing under and post-graduate students, assisting Professors. I assisted in courses such as Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Development, Livelihood, and Food Security. |
22/10/2018-21/10/2019 | Position: Graduate Assistant I Employer: Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, www.bdu.edu.et/idrmfss Role: Guiding and instructing underand post-graduate students, assisting Professors. I assisted in courses such as Fundamentals of Disaster Risk Management, Sustainable Development, Livelihood, and Food Security.
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TRAINING I DELIVERED | |
15-17 May 2024 | Training Name: Concepts and principles of disaster risk management Training Participants:Local disaster risk management volunteer group at Bahir Dar city Place of Training: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
15/02-03/03/2024 | Training Name: Basic and Advanced Disaster Risk Management Training Participants:Employees and fellows of USAID-response leadership activity Place of Training: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
01/25/2023-02/03/2023 | Training Name: ToT on Basic and Advanced Disaster Risk Management Training Participants: Experts and lecturers from different Universities of Ethiopia Place of Training: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
13-17/03/2022 | Training Name: Incident Management System Training Participants: Workers of East African bottling shared company at the Bahir Dar Branch Place of Training: Bahir Dar Ethiopia |
03-07/07/2023 | Training Name: National Incident Management System Training Participants: Workers of Amhara pipe factory Place of Training: Bahir Dar Ethiopia |
15-20/07/2022 | Training Name: National Incident Management System Training Participants: Amhara region early warning experts Place of Training: Injibara, Ethiopia |
07-10/07/2023 | Training Name: Basic firefighting skills Training Participants: Workers of Amhara Pipe Factory Place of Training: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
10-17/07/2022 | Training Name: Basic firefighting skills Training Participants: Workers of East African bottling shared company at the Bahir Dar Branch Place of Training: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
10-25/02/2023 | Training Name: Basic and Advanced firefighting skills Training Participants: Employees and fellows of USAID-Response leadership activity Place of Training: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
EDUCATION AND TRAINING |
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09/10/2019-15/07/2021 | Degree Name: MSc in Livelihood and Food Security |
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Study Place: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. CGPA: 4.00/4.00 | ||
Principal subjects covered: Livelihood, Food Security, Climate Change and Food System, Disaster Risk Management Theories and Practice, Project Planning Monitoring Evaluation and Learning, Development Theories and Practice, Research Methods, Graduate Seminar, and GIS and Remote sensing. | ||
2014/10/17-2018/06/28 | Degree Name: BSc In Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development | |
CGPA: 3.95/4.00 Principal Subject Covered: Introduction to Disaster Risk Management, Crop Production and Management, Introduction to Environmental Science, Computer and its Application, Remote Sensing and GIS, Introduction to Natural Resource Management, Hazards, Climate Change and Disaster, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Disaster Risk Mitigation and Prevention, Early Warning System, Integrated Watershed Management, Environmental Impact and Risk Assessment, Drought and Flood Management, Policy and Strategy Analysis, Sustainable Development, Development Planning and Disaster Management, Urban Risk Management, Relief and Development, Community Based Disaster Risk Management. | ||
01/12/2015-31/07/2016 | Degree Name: Diploma in Advanced Agriculture Place of Study: Israel Principal Subject Covered: Agricultural structure and high technology methods and technics, Plant protection and pest control, Computer and its application, on-the-job training, community leadership, life skills workshop, Problem-solving, Salutogenics paradigm, | |
01/02/2024-15/03/2024 | Training Name: Master Class for Teaching Online (Open edX) Trainer: University of Arizona, USA Principal course: Teaching methodologies for onlineline courses. | |
01/10/2021-22/08/2022 | Training Name: High Diploma Program in Teaching. Trainer: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Principal Course: Teaching Methodologies in Higher Education Institutions | |
01/02/2024-05/03/2024 | Training Name: Master class for teaching online (open edX) organized by University of Arizona | |
22-27/2024 | Training Name: Effective facilitation skill Organized by Bahir Dar University in collaboration with USAID-Response Leadership Activity. | |
22 /02/2023 | Training Name: Training Workshop for Young Professionals: efficacy of Nature-based Solution for Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa, organized by UNESCO; Periperi U and OPERANDUM. | |
23-25/01/2023 | Training Name: Organizational capacity assessment training organized by USAID response leadership activities in collaboration with Bahir Dar University. | |
19-30/08/2019 | Training Name: Fire emergency prevention and control mechanism awareness creation training organized by Addis Ababa City Government Fire and Disaster Risk Management Training Centre, Ethiopia. | |
4-9 /03/2019 | Training Name: Gender-responsive effective teaching skills” organized by Jhpiego Ethiopia | |
11-15/04/2019 | Certificate Name: Certificate of training completion on Demographic Health Survey (DHS) data analysis by using STATA software organized by Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. | |
16-20/11/2019 | Certificate Name: Certificate of training completion on SPSS data analysis organized by Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia | |
PERSONAL SKILLS | |
Mother tongue(s) | Amharic | ||||
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Other language(s) | UNDERSTANDING | SPEAKING | WRITING | ||
Listening | Reading | Spoken interaction | Spoken production |
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English | C2 | C2 | C1 | C1 | C1 |
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Communication skills | Excellent communication skills developed through my international study experience in Israel and my work at a higher education institution in Ethiopia. |
Organisational/managerial skills | Leadership: I served as the Head of the Department of Disaster Risk Management and Sustainable Development at the Institute of Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. I supervised 28 instructors from 01 Nov. 2023- 30 Jan 2024. Leadership: Focal Person for the USAID Response Leadership Activity Project, coordinating and supervising 42 individuals. From 01 Nov. 2023 to present. Mentor: I am a mentor of 81 under graduate disaster risk management and sustainable development students from 01 Nov. 2025 to present. Leadership: A chairperson of Local disaster risk management volunteer group in Bahir Dar city since 03 May 2024. |
Job-related skills | Good command of systematic review and meta-analysis, currently responsible for conducting these analyses in various internationally funded projects, including the APPEAR Project 351. |
Computer skills | Good Command of Basic Computer Skills Good Command of Arc GIS. Good Command of SPSS, STATA, and R-software Good Command of Microsoft Office™ tools |
Other skills | Firefighting skills Emergency management skills |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION |
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Projects | Project Name: Establishing Transformative Learning Research and Community Outreach and Capacities in Agroecology at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Funder: Austrian Partnership Programme in Higher Education and Research for Development (APPEAR) Duration: 01 May 2024 30 April 2027 Role: Member Project Name: Mapping heat wave, humidity, and their effect on heat-related mortality among high-risk population groups: Using secondary data from Climate, DHIS-2, and Demographic Health Survey (DHS) in Ethiopia and Burkina Faso Funder: PERIPERI-U-University of Arizona, USA. Duration: 01 Oct. 2024-30/04/2025 Project Name: Baseline Probabilistic Climate Risk Assessment Information – A Foundation for Scaling Up Smallholder Agriculture Adaptation through Insurance Funder: PERIPERI-U, University of Arizona, USA Duration: May 2023 to Nov. 2024 Role: Co-PI Project Name: Gender-specific Adaptive Capacity on Climate Change and Food Security Status – A catchment approach on agroforestry Systems – a multi-country case study Funder: Africa UniNet, Partnership with Africa University, Austria Duration: 01 October 2020 to October 2022. Role:Member Project Name: A pilot project working on 16 districts of AmharaRegional State on weather indexcrop insurance (R4 project) which includes risk transfer (crop insurance), risk reduction, riskreserve (saving) prudent risk-taking, and risk avoidance sponsored by WFP Project number, WFP-ICSP ET 05-ACT02. Funder: World Food Program Duration: From October 2022 to July 2023 Role: Member |
Conferences and Seminars
| Workshop Name: Climate Adaptation Research Programme (CARP) Workshop. Duration: 07-11/10/2024 Place: University of Stellenbosch International, South Africa. Workshop Name: A workshop for researchers and stakeholders to engage and discuss various topics related to the BDU-IDRMFSS Climate adaptation research project. Day: 09/09/2024 Place: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Workshop Name: 7th national annual workshop institute of disaster risk management and food security studies. Day: 14/09/2023 Place: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Workshop Name: 6th National annual workshop institute of disaster risk management and food security studies, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Day: 14/09/2020 Place: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Conference Name: Bahir Dar University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences 10th national and the 1st International Conference Day: 29/0/20523 Place: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia |
Honours and awards
| 2018 Gold medal winner of Bahir Dar University Graduate Class, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia 2021 Best Project Award winner of Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia |
Membership | A member Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Professional Association since 20 June 2024 A member of the Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR) Since 21 Oct. 2019. |
Mobility | Israel, South Africa, Ethiopia |
Publications and Presentations
| Abebe, M. G. (2024). Impacts of urbanization on food security in Ethiopia. A review with empirical evidence. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 15: 100997 Asaye, T. S., Amare, Z. Y., Geremew, B. B. and Abebe, M. G. (2025). Rainfall variability and trends in western Amhara: implication for sustainable water management and agricultural productivity. Water Practice & Technology: wpt2025023.
Abebe, M. G. (2025). Strengthening Household Resilience for Enhanced Food Security in Northwestern Ethiopia: Insights from Resilience Pillars. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9: 1528346. Gebreegziabhier, E.Y. Abebe, M.G. (2025). Rural Households’ Resilience to Climate Shock in Northwestern Ethiopia. Sustainability Science and Management, 20 (5). Accepted for publication Asaye, T. S., Amare, z. Y., Geremew, B. B. and Abebe, M. G. (2025b). Spatiotemporal trend analysis of rainfall for deeper understanding of the pattern and its implications over western Amhara, Ethiopia: Innovative trend analysis method”. Discover Sustainability. Accepted for publication
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