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Schweizerisches Rotäs Kreuz
Croce Rosso Svizzero
Certificate of employment
Berne, December 2014
The Swiss Red Cross (SRC) hereby confirms that Tsehay Mekonnen, born on 14 December
1975, was employed by SRC from 1 June to 31 December 2014 as Country Coordinator in
the SRC program in Sudan, on a 100% fixed-term contract.
As Mrs Mekonnen was not granted a working visa for Sudan, she was based in Addis Ababa
where she was coordinating the programs in Sudan through distance management. Due to
this challenge, the working relationship with Mrs Tsehay Mekonnen will unfortunately end on
31't December 2Q14.
The purpose of the mission was to develop, implement and consolidate the SRC program,
based on a strategy which supports a comprehensive Community Based Health Care and a
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Program in Sennar State linked with volunteer man-
agement and organizational development in order to strengthen the partner's capacities.
Main tasks:
. Represent SRC towards the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS), ICRC, IFRC
and other Organizations and lnstitutions.
. Maintain close and constructive relationships with the personnel of the above men-
tioned partners and organizations.
o Ensure that the projects developed together with the SRCS are in line with guidelines,
strategies and concepts of both SRC and the SRCS.
o Manage all SRC support projects implemented through (SRCS) according to the ex-
pected project objectives and within approved budgets.
o Advise SRC headquarters on relevant strategic issues, project procedures and threats
or risks to the successful implementation of the projects
. Ensure that procedures, regulations and capacities of the SRCS branch in Sennar and
at headquarters in financial and narrative reporting of projects are in line with the
needs of back donors and the SRC Quality Management System.
. Supervise and support financial and narrative reporting of the projects at Branch and
Headquarter level and execute budget control.
. Report to the SRC headquarters and to back donors as required.
. Prepare and document hand over.
Despite the fact that Mrs Mekonnen was not based in Sudan, she did her best to operate and
coordinate the programs in Sudan to our great satisfaction.
Thanks to her vast experience in developing countries and her previous working experience in
Sudan, Mrs Mekonnen quickly became acquainted with her work and could cope with the very
demanding circumstances. Working with her was a pleasure since she is always proactive, a
problem solver, has strong analytical skills and has a very good way in interacting with people
Verein Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz
Association Croix-Rouge suisse
Associazione Croce Rossa Svizzera
Rainmattstrasse 10
P.O. Box
CH-3001 Berne
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Phone 031 387 71 11
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(roce Rosso Svizzero
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and motivate them also through distance management. Tsehay Mekonnen is always eager to
learn and looks for options to build her capacity.
She maintained a good relation with the SRC headquarters and informed timely and ade-
quately about project development and decisions. The communication and exchange was
clear and in a constantly constructive working atmosphere. We appreciated very much to
work with Mrs Mekonnen and we are afraid not being able to continue working with her.
We would like to thank Mrs Mekonnen most sincerely for her work and commitment she con-
tributed to our project in Sudan. We would be glad to work with her again in the future and
wish her all the best.
Swiss Red Cross
lnternational Cooperation
Africa / Americas .