Cv bezabih tesfaye bst

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BST Survey Solutions PLC
Yeka Sub-City, Woreda 08, House # 158/408, Bethlethem Plaza Building
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel +251 (911) 658107; +251 (929) 050886
Email: bezabih.tesfaye@bst-survey.org; bezabihtesfaye@yahoo.com
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CV_Mr.Bezabih
Tesfaye BST_Octber_2021.docx
CURRICULUM VITAE – Bezabih Tesfaye Bekele, M.Sc.
Proposed position: Project Manager/ Survey Manager
Bezabih Tesfaye is Manager of BST Survey Solutions PLC, a renowned survey firm in Ethiopia, and an
experienced Survey Project Manager. He has 20 (twenty) years of experience with designing a research
strategy to collect data on project indicators in close consultation with the client, including survey
methodology and sampling; drafting survey instruments to collect empirical data, including quantitative
survey questionnaire, in-depth interview outlines and focus-group discussion guidelines; led fieldwork
activities to identify, recruit and train a team of survey enumerators and supervisors to conduct the
survey;and facilitated focus-group discussions in severalresearches,evaluations,and feasibility studies
for clients. He has demonstrated knowledge of human subject protections, privacy etc., and ability to
teach others.
Bezabih has team-oriented attitude for training others and a professional demeanor for interacting with
stakeholders and users, to design and undertake a survey project. For years, he has led data collection
activities for several household and firm-level surveys projects for international/local research
institutions, donors, NGOs, etc such as the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the
World Bank (WB), USAID, Oxford Policy Management (OPM), Digital Green Foundation (DG), Ethiopian
Strategy Support Program (ESSP), Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), etc. He has
ensured successful survey project implementation through management of the survey scope, schedule,
organize, budget, risk, and quality control and the work of multiple teams of survey enumerators and
supervisors. Through years of experience, he has developed huge technical knowledge of field survey,
including but not limited to data collection, quality control, CAPI software handling, reporting,
procedures, guidelines, and other survey related matters.
He holds a M.Sc. in Rural Development from Mahatma Gandhi University and bachelors in physics from Addis
Ababa university.
General
Year of birth 1972
Nationality Ethiopian
Expertise
Areas of expertise Coordinating field surveys
Key skills  Proven competency in providing field survey coordination in collaboration
with local enumerators, supervisors and international partners and
documentation at the local and national level; both quantitative and
qualitative methods
 Highly experienced in management of longitudinal and complex surveys and
datasets
 Demonstrated experience in developing data collection methods, and data
management strategies
 Very experienced in preparing projects updates and field documentation
 Highly experienced in recruiting, training and supervision of field research
staff
Professional
experience
20 years

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Education
Institution Mahatma Gandhi University
Location India
Start date Sept 2003
End date July 2004
Type of degree Master's
Subject Rural Development
Institution Addis Ababa University
Location Ethiopia
Start date Sept 1991
End date July 1994
Type of degree Bachelor's
Subject Physics
Professional experience
Current position Manager Director of BST Survey Solutions PLC
Start data April 2013 – present
Description Household and Firm-level Survey Manager for a wide range of
international development evaluations and international economic
research projects, including:
 Survey Manager, Women’s Agricultural Marketing Leaders
Network (WALN) Midline and End-line Surveys (Gender
Innovation Lab of the World Bank, 2017)
 Survey Manager, Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net
Programme (PSNP) (IFPRI, 2017)
 Survey Manager, Agricultural Commercialization Cluster Survey
Baseline (ACC) on 5000 households (ATA/IFPRI, 2016)
Selected projects
Project title Behavioral Insights on Women’s Employment in Ethiopia
Start date [Midline] Jan 2020
End date [Midline] Mar 2020
Company / Organisation BST Survey Solutions PLC
Position / Responsibility Survey Manager
Client The World Bank Group - GENDER INNOVATION LAB
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based survey for a study focused on a sample of600 female
applicants to factory jobs in Bole Lemi industrial park. The data
collection exercise consisted of experimental sessions with participants
completing a detailed survey questionnaire and set of guided tasks in an
experimental group setting.
.
Project title Ethiopia Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project Impact
Evaluation Household Listing Survey
Client The World Bank Group - Gender Innovation Lab

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Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based survey which comprises of a listing of all households
in 60 selected kebeles from 4 regions in Ethiopia: Oromia, Amhara,
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's (SNNP), and Tigray. The
listing collected basic information on household characteristics and will
include approximately 10,200 households in the selected kebeles.
Besides, from each sample kebele, community (kebele-level) survey data
was collected using key informants.
.
Project title Fourth Round Survey for The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive
Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) on women’s time use, nutritional
status of women and pre-school children in the face seasonality and
market access constraints
Start date [Midline] June 2019
End date [Midline] Aug 2019
Client ESSP II/ International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based follow up survey to assess the Fourth Phase of
Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net program (PSNP4) on the nutritional
status ofwomen and pre-school children in Amhara, Oromiya,
Southern National, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and
Tigray regions. It is CAPI based survey for the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation (BMGF) Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) Project in
Ethiopia. The survey program covered to 2,640 households in 264 EAs
in the four main regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Third Round Surv ey for The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive
Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) on women’s time use, nutritional
status of women and pre-school children in the face seasonality and
market access constraints
Start date [Midline] Feb 2019
End date [Midline] Apr 2019
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based follow up survey to assess the Third Phase of
Project title Ethiopia Multi-Donors Initiative (MDI) Impact Monitoring and
Evaluation Project financed by IFC– partnering with Economisti
Associati, a consulting firm based in Italy
Start date [Midline] Jul 2018
End date [Midline] Feb 2019
Client IFC– partnering with Economisti Associati,a consulting firm based in
Italy
Description of
the tasks assigned - Led a small business survey of100 Small and medium Enterprises in
Addis Ababa.

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.
Project title Second round of data collection for the household survey for
evaluation titled, “A cluster randomized trial of video-mediated
agricultural extension services in Ethiopia.”
End date [Midline] May 2019
Client International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)/Digital Green
Foundation
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based survey on Impact evaluation of Digital Green’s
video-based extension work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural
Resources (MoARN) in Ethiopia. Endline household
survey. Measurement of plot areas for teff, wheat, and maize using
GPS for plots within a given radius from dwelling will also be done. The
End-line survey covered close to 2500 households and 900
development agents (DAs) in 352 rural kebeles Ethiopia.
.
Project title Impact Evaluation of Feed the Future Programs in Ethiopia
Start date [Midline] Aug 2018
End date [Midline] Oct 2018
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI-based endline Survey for Feed the Future zone of Influence
under the project entitled “Impact Evaluation of Feed the Future
Program”. The survey program covers more than 8,000 households in
333 EAs in the four main regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Follow-up Survey for The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net
Programme (PSNP4)
Start date [Midline] April 2018
End date [Midline] July 2018
Description of
the tasks assigned
Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net program (PSNP4) in Tigray, Affar,
Amhara, Oromia, Somali and SNNPR Regions. The survey program
covers more than 2,000 households in 336 EAs in the four main
regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Endline household survey for Impact evaluation of Digital Green’s
video-based extension work with the Ministry of Agriculture and
Natural Resources (MoARN) in Ethiopia.
End date [Midline] Apr 2018

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Client International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)/Digital Green
Foundation
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAPI-based survey for end-line survey that covered close to
2500 households and 900 development agents (DAs) in 352 rural
kebeles Ethiopia. Measurement of plot areas for teff, wheat, and maize
using GPS for plots within a given radius from dwelling was also done.
.
Project title Second Round Survey for The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive
Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) on women’s time use,
nutritional status of women and pre-school children in the face
seasonality and market access constraints
Start date [Midline] Jul 2017
End date [Midline] Oct 2017
Description of
the tasks assigned
Project title Survey for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) Project in Ethiopia
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led a CAP-based survey to assess the Fourth Phase of Ethiopia’s
Productive Safety Net program (PSNP4) on the nutritional status of
women and pre-school children in Amhara, Oromiya, Southern
National, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and Tigray
regions. The survey program covered to 2,640 households in 264 EAs
Project title Productive Safety Net Program -4th Round Survey (PSNP4)
Start date [Midline] May 2015
End date [Midline] Dec 2015
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI-based survey for the Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net
program (PSNP4) in Amhara, Oromiya, Southern National,
Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and Tigray regions.
Project title Impact Evaluation of Feed the Future Program
Start date [Midline] Jun 2015
End date [Midline] July 2015

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Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI-based mid-line survey for the Impact evaluation of feed the
future program (FTF) in Amhara, Oromiya, Southern National,
Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and Tigray regions.
Project title Women’s Agricultural Marketing Leaders Network (WALN)
Midline and End-line Surveys
Start date [Midline] May 2015
End date [Midline] Dec 2015
Start date [End-line] April 2017
End date [End-line] Ongoing
Client The World Bank Group - GENDER INNOVATION LAB
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI-based follow-up survey of about 1200 program beneficiaries
and of an identified control group for a Randomized Controlled Trial
(RCT) impact evaluation of the Women’s Agricultural Marketing Leaders
Network (WALN) project in Ethiopia. This project is conducted by The
World Banks Africa Region Gender Innovation Lab (GIL) and
implemented by the NGO ACDI/VOCA in Addis-Ababa, Amhara, Oromia,
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region (SNNPR) and
Tigray regions.
Project title Two rounds of survey for the Impact of Ethiopia's Productive
Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) on women’s time use,
nutritional status of women and pre-school children in the face
seasonality and market access constraints in Ethiopia
Start date January 2017
End date September 2017
Client ESSP II/International Food Policy Research Insitute
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the qualitative and the quantitative survey to assess the Fourth
Phase of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net program (PSNP4) on the
nutritional status of women and pre-school children in Amahara,
Oromiya, Southern National, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR)
and Tigray regions. It is CAPI based survey for the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation (BMGF) Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP)
Project in Ethiopia. The survey program covered to 2,640 households in
264 EAs in the four main regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Digital Green Program’s Third Party Quality Assurance
End date December 2016
Client Digital Green Foundation
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the qualitative and the quantitative survey to assess the quality of
120 Video Dissemination Sessions per a predefined parameter and
conduct 240 farmers’ interviews (2) Physically validate 400 at farm
adoption of agricultural practices in 40 kebeles 3, conduct 240
household survey in 10 kebeles to cross validate leadership and
adoption of Ayibar BBM as reported by Farm Radio International (FRI).

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Project title Agricultural Commercialization Cluster Survey Baseline (ACC)
Start date March 2016
End date August 2016
Client International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Agricultural
Transformation Agency (ATA)
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led household, kebele and woreda-level digital survey for the
Agricultural Transformation Agency’s Agricultural Commercialization
Cluster (ACC) project in Ethiopia. The survey covered close to 5,000
households in four main regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Digital Green Foundation’s Project on Ethiopian extension
system through video-based extension, and radio
End date February 2016
Client International Food Policy research Institute (IFPRI)
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the data collection task fits within a broader study seeking to
enhance the effectiveness of the Ethiopian agricultural extension
system. The experimental data collection described here will contribute
to a better understanding of the drivers behind agricultural extension
agent’s motivation to exert effort on a given task.
Project title Survey on Less Explored Pathways to Resilience and
Transformation
Start date October 2015
End date December 2015
Client International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the data collection in Doba wereda, oromiya region.
Project title Midline Survey to measure the Impact of Feed the Future
Program
Start date May 2015
End date July 2015
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the qualitative and the quantitative survey to measure the impact
of Feed the Future Program in Amhara, Oromiya, Southern National,
Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR) and Tigray regions. It is
CAPI based survey covering more than 6,000 households in Ethiopia.

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Project title Drinking-Water and Sanitation (WASH) Survey
Start date August 2014
End date February 2015
Client Oxford Policy Management (OPM) led Consortium/DFID
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led the qualitative (community mapping, FGD, and key informants)
and quantitative (water points, and 1,200 households) survey on value
for money and sustainability in WASH programs in Amhara, Oromiya,
Southern National, Nationalities, and People’s Region (SNNPR),
Benishangul, and Tigray regions of Ethiopia.
Project title Saudi Returnee’s Survey
Start date April 2014
End date June 2014
Client The World Bank (WB)
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI based survey on return migration from the kingdom of Saudi
Arabia to Ethiopia. The survey covers 500 returnees.
Project title Wheat Survey and crop-cutting for ATA’s Wheat Initiative
Project
Start date December 2013
End date March 2014
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI based survey on close to 1,000 wheat growers and crop-
cutting measurements for about 500 wheat farmers in Tigray, Amhara,
and Oromiya regions of Ethiopia.
Project title USAID Impact Evaluation Survey
Start date October 2013
End date November 2013
Client USAID/E
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI based data collection activities (using qualitative and
quantitative survey instruments) for the USAID’s impact evaluation
survey on AGP/AMD/LMD/LGP targeted households and
PSNP/HABP/GRAD/PRIME beneficiaries in selected 40 weredas in
Ethiopia
Project title Index-based Weather Insurance Survey
Start date June 2013
End date August 2013
Description of
the tasks assigned
- Led CAPI based end-line survey for index based insurance study on
1,700 households in four selected sites in Oromiya region of Ethiopia.

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Employment record
Project title Freelance Survey Coordinator
Start date Jan 2001
End date Jan 2013
Company / Organisation Various (NGOs, Research Centers, UN agencies, Donors, etc)
Position / Responsibility Survey Coordinator for a number of surveys
Description of
the tasks assigned
 Assist in the preparation of budget for surveys assigned
 Organize and train field Staff
 Effectively communicate with the field staff on survey
requirements and assist in the planning of the necessary
control mechanism, which will ensure the efficient and timely
collection of data.
 Responsible for the design of data entry screens
 Perform mathematical computations required for the survey
e.g. calculate raising factors to obtain national estimates from
sample data;
 Make recommendations for improvements in methodology,
processes and techniques
 Prepare edit specifications
 Prepare edit and coding manuals.
 Prepare training manuals for field staff
 Organize pre-testing of questionnaires.
 Periodically accompany field staff on interviews for surveys
assigned.
 Make periodic visits to the field offices to undertake data
quality checks on surveys assigned.
 Data cleaning and analysis

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Some of Survey Bezabih worked as Freelance Survey Coordinator are:
Name of Survey Company/Organisation
1. Teff Technology Baseline Survey mainly focuses on Evaluation of the different Teff
Production Technologies implemented by the “The Ethiopian Agricultural
Transformation Agency”. The Baseline Survey was conducted in Oromiya Region
in 9 Weredas and 36 kebeles [Nov - Dec 2012].
2. Agricultural Transformation Agency’s (ATA’s) baseline survey. The survey covers
100 weredas and 200 rural kebeles. The survey targeted 3000 farming households
as well as multi-purpose agricultural cooperatives found in each sample rural
kebele. The target of the survey is just to have a benchmark before the programs
of the ATA are going to be implemented. [2012]
3. Urban Food Retailers Survey to see supply chain of food commodities in Addis
Ababa. In the survey Supermarket owners, Whole sellers, Micro sellers of food
commodities, like: cereals, vegetables, edible oils and other processed foods were
interviewed. [2012]
4. Rainfall Indexed Insurance Baseline and follow-up Survey in four weredas
(Shashemene, Dodota,Adama And bako) in Ormoiya Regional State.[Jan 2011 –
Jan 2012]
5. Rural transport Survey in Alefa Wereda, North Gondar Zone, Amhara Regional
State. [Oct 2011 – Jan 2012]
6. Experimental research entitled “Aspirations and Wellbeing Outcomes In Ethiopia.”
The activities had unique characters that require thorough care. In each Sampling
villages we had to list the HHs and build our sample, then categorizing the sampled
HHs in to control and experimental groups based on the pre-defined and agreed
way. The different groups are invited to film shows (Documentary and
entertainment). Immediately after the show post treatment interviews are
conducted. The survey had a challenging nature because of its time dependent
nature. The Survey isone of the rare typesin the world and the first in the country.
We covered 64 villages in this survey.
7. Young Lives Schooling survey (several rounds). The survey targeted schools
attended by the young lives children or their siblings. The survey had different
instruments like teacher tests, Principal interview, class room observation, School
compound observation, and child interview. The survey instruments were
qualitative and quantitative. [2004-2010]
8. Seventh Round Ethiopian Rural Households Survey (ERHS) . The Survey is to
collect the overall Socio-Economic data from the sampled households. The survey
is a. [Feb – July 2009]
9. Leather Shoe Industry Survey [Oct 2008 – Jan 2009].
10. Project entitled “Pathways from Poverty: Strengthening Ethiopia’s PRSP through
the Analysis of Longitudinal Household Data.” The objective of the project is to
capacitate Local Researchers in Analysing Longitudinal Household Panel Data
collected by different Institutions in the country and Bridging the gap between
research and policy making. [April – Dec 2008]
11. Survey on flowerproducerexporterfirmstargeting all the flowerproducerexporter
firms found throughout the country. The objective of the survey is to see the
competitivenessof the domestic flowerproducerexporterfirms in the international
market. [ Nov 2007 – Feb 2008]
12. Survey to understand young people’sattitudestowardsissuesrelated to HIV/AIDS.
[Oct – Nov 2007]
IFPRI
IFPRI
Ethiopian Strategic Support
Program (ESSP)
IFPRI
Ethiopian Strategic Support
Program (ESSP)/EDRI
Oxford University/ IFPRI
Ethiopian Development
Research Institute (EDRI)
EDRI/AAU/Oxford
University/IFPRI
National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS)/EDRI
EDRI/World Bank
National Graduate Institute for
Policy Studies (GRIPS)/EDRI
British Red Cross/ WASS
international Consult
Language skills
Language Reading / Speaking / Writing
Amharic Native
Oromiffa Excellent / Excellent / Excellent
English Excellent / Excellent / Excellent
Membership
 Ethiopian Statistical Association (ESA)
 Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA)
 Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society

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 Ethiopian Family Guidance Association (EFGA)
Contact information
Address Beth Bethlehem Plaza Building, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Phone +251-(0911)-658107
Email bezabih.tesfaye@bst-survey.org
References
1. Ruth Vargas Hill (PhD.),Senior Economist, Africa Region
Poverty Reduction and Economic Management
The World Bank
Washington DC, USA
Telephone: 202-473-8929
E-mail:rhill@worldbank.org
2. Alemayehu Seyoum (PhD.), Senior Research Fellow
Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP)
International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: +251 (11) 617 2556
E-mail:a.seyoumtaffesse@cgiar.org
3. Nicholas Minot(PhD.), Deputy Division Director
Market, Trade, and Institutions Division (MTID)
International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI)
Washington DC, USA
Tel: (Off) 202 862-5691
E-mail:n.minot@cgiar.org
4. Rashid Zaman (PhD.), Consultant
Oxford Policy Management (OPM)
Oxford, United Kingdom
Tel: (Off) +44 (0)1865 207 300
E-mail:rashid.zaman@opml.co.uk
Certification
I certify that (1) to the best of my knowledge and belief, this CV correctly describes me, my qualifications,
and my experience; (2) that I am available for the assignment for which I am proposed; and (3) that I am
proposed only by one Offeror and under one proposal.
I understand that any wilful misstatement or misrepresentation herein may lead to my disqualification or
removal from the selected team undertaking the assignment.
Date:April 2, 2020
Full name of Staff Member: Bezabih Tesfaye Bekele

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