Fetene BEFEKADU is our favorite expert for the position National Hydraulic Engineer.

• Please allow me a question about the registration process of engineers:

In the TORs on page 27 it is stated: “The National Hydraulic Engineer needs to be registered
with the relevant national engineering body” and in Mr Fetene´s CV it is stated on the last page
under memberships: “Registered Professional Engineer-IV at Ministry of water Resources” – I
assume you are familiar with the registration requirements for hydraulic engineers. Are there
several bodies that register hydraulic engineers`? I found this one: Ethiopian Association of Civil
Engineers (EACE) (eacecivil.org)
What can you comment on the registration requirements/possibilities for Ethiopian engineers? Is
there a specific body which is the most renown entity for registering engineers? Could you
kindly ask Mr Fetene to confirm that he has mentioned all relevant information regarding this
aspect in his CV?
- Could you also please verify if Mr Fetene if he has some experience in water harvesting?
- Especially the latest position is very brief – it would be helpful if Mr Fetene could specify
his responsibilities and personal contributions to the listed points. In particular the Tender
documents: what was he designing, revising? What kind of tender documents – what is being
tenderd, what was his task, what was the reques/result of this task and was it the only time he has
elaborated tender documents, if not, kindly ask him to mention when else he was involved in the
elaboration of tender documents.
- When he states Capacity Building: what is his task? Who did he train? For which purpose,
how long, who participated, how many people participated, what were the topics, which were the
methods that he applied, has he produced didactic material, where were the Capacity building
activities held? This logic would need to be followed for anything stated in the CV.
- When he stated Contract management and Construction supervision: please say which
sort of contracts he managed, I suppose it was the contracts with service providers? If yes, please
say which services. If is was for goods, please name the goods, and also the contract volume.
When Construction supervision is a key task, then it is interesting to know how many people
were working on the construction site, is it possible to state specific sub-tasks, what is being
supervised?
- The mentioned ESIA study, did he conduct it by himself? With who did he collaborate,
what was the result, what was his specific taks, any prior assessments, which regulations were
being followed/monitored, … more details will strengthen the list of tasks of the first position.