Azeb Adefrsew Inclusion & Protection Consultant - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Azeb Adefrsew has a Post Graduate Diploma in Community Politics and the Law. She owns particular expertise of over forty years in the areas of child protection, sexual and gender-based violence, child marriage, female genital mutilation, migration, disability and inclusion of vulnerable groups. Azeb has built proven experience in leading multidisciplinary teams in undertaking participatory evaluation and research, analysing qualitative and quantitative data, and producing analytical reports as well as developing training materials and providing training. She has worked as lead researcher and evaluator for over forty-five programs funded by major donors including UNICEF, USAID, DFID, Save the Children International, SIDA, and the European Union. Azeb was recently involved in conducting  

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formative research on successful strategies to end FGM, including strategies to transform harmful inequitable gender norms in Ethiopia (2022); reviewing the existing literature, programmatic approaches, and reports on implementation and monitoring of child marriage programs in Africa and developing a programme implementation guideline (2022); and validating the global UNFPA-UNICEF FGM Evaluation Framework (2019). Her Africa level experiences include working in Uganda and Zambia as well as coordinating program staff at the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) in undertaking child protection interventions. These included a study on FGM, “Towards an FGM Free Continent”, undertaken in the Sudan, Guinea, Gambia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana; a documentary on violence against children produced in Ethiopia, Kenya, Sera Lion and Uganda; and a three-day training to practitioners in government organizations and NGOs on “Keeping Children Safe” in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. While working at the ACPF, Azeb has gained Africa wide experience in the area of child protection, child rights and policy advocacy.