1.

Estimating the Economic Costs of Intimate Partners’ Violence (IPV) against women in Ethiopia

Assignment name: Estimating the Economic Costs of Approx. value of the contract: $ 116,143.10
Intimate Partners’ Violence (IPV) against women in
Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months): 4 Month
Name of Client: UN Women Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 4
Address: UN Women, www.greenwichmeantime.com, Approx. value of the services provided by your
firm under the contract (in current US$):
116,143.10
Start date (month/year): on Progress
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of
Names of Professionals Position Position
Professionals
Team
Prof. Nigatu Regassa Team Leader Prof. Jema Haji
Member/Economist
Dereje Kifle (PhD.) Project Coordinator Daniel Aklilu Data Manger
Team
Azeb Adefrsew Member/Gender Nigussie Shiferaw Survey Director
Specialist
Narrative description of the Project: The overall objective of this study is to provide reliable estimate of the
economic costs of IPV in Ethiopia. The estimates provided by this research will contribute to deepen the
understanding among policy makers, political leaders, Nongovernment Organizations (NGOs), communities and
families of the full cost of inaction in addressing violence. This objective can be broken down into the following
three specific objectives: To estimate the annual direct costs for households related to incidents of violence
(includes costs associated with seeking services for medical care such as physical and mental), shelter,
mediation (NGOs, local resolution), and judicial resolution as well as consumption costs related to the
replacement of property; To estimate the indirect costs including income loss due to missed work, loss of
reproductive labor, children’s health and children’s school performance; and To estimate the annual service
provision costs across sectors including health, police, judicial and social.
Description of actual services provided by our firm with in the assignment: Detailed inception report (including
desk review, design and research questions, tools); Raw data in soft and hard copies; Tabulations of costing;
and Final report and
 2. Gender Audit for Women’s Empowerment Through Gender Transformative Opportunities (WE-GO)
Project

Assignment name: Gender Audit for Women’s Approx. value of the contract: $ 28,025.63
Empowerment Through Gender Transformative
Opportunities (WE-GO) Project
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months): 4 Month
Name of Client: Care Ethiopia Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 4
Address: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Approx. value of the services provided by your firm
under the contract (in current US$): 28,025.63
Start date (month/year): On Progress
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of
Names of Professionals Position Position
Professionals
Team Leader/
Azeb Adefrsew Dereje Kifle (PhD.) Project Coordinator
Gender Specialist
Women
Sindu Kebede (PhD) Daniel Aklilu Data Manger
empowerment expert
Admasu Asfaw
Paulos Asrat (PhD) Team Member Data analyst
(PhD)
Narrative description of the Project: Assignment for the Gender Audit were separated into six tasks: To assess
the level of effort and achievements in integrating gender, identifying strengths, areas of improvement, threats,
and opportunities within the institutions in high-level strategy development, implementation of relevant policies,
programming and service delivery, budgeting, human resource management, and partnership, To support the
development of guidelines, procedures, action plans, and staffing structures for effective gender integration, To
track the progress made in integrating gender since the last Gender Audit and the extent to which the
recommendations from the previous audits are implemented, To explore the level of staff understanding and
perception towards gender integration, To establish baseline information regarding gender integration in all
components of the organization, To formulate workable recommendations to take the effort forward, which will
serve as the benchmark for further planning, gauging progress, and help facilitate the implementation of GESA.
Description of actual services provided by our firm with in the assignment:
Inception report that describes the detailed methodology to be employed, data collection tools and conceptual
framework, and the action plan, Comprehensive audit report, which shows findings substantiated by evidence of
the status of gender integration and applicable recommendations, Raw data collected for the audit purpose will
be made available both in hard and soft copy, and Presentation for Validation workshops and submit final report
based on comments from the workshop.
 3. Situation Analysis of Agribusiness, Agro-Industry and Allied Industries in the four IAIPs, RTCs (and
related ACPZs) and Gender Analysis of the Agro-Industrial Sector with Gender Action Points in
Ethiopia

Assignment name: Situation Analysis of Agribusiness, Agro- Approx. value of the contract: $ 55,217
Industry and Allied Industries in the four IAIPs, RTCs (and
related ACPZs) and Gender Analysis of the Agro-Industrial
Sector with Gender Action Points in Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months): 2 months
Name of Client: United Nations Industrial Development Total No. of staff-months of the
Organization (UNIDO) assignment: 2
Contact Person: Olijira Kuma Addamo Approx. value of the services provided by
UNIDO National Project Coordinator, your firm under the contract: $ 55,217
Integrated Agro-Industry Park (IAIP),
Cell phone: +251911969890, Office phone; +251-11-551-4245
Email; O.ADDAMO@UNIDO.ORG
Start date (month/year): May 2020 to July, 2020
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of Names of
Position Position
Professionals Professionals
Paulos Asrat (PhD) Team Leader/Value chain Specialist Daniel Aklilu Data Manager
Samuel G/Silassie
Team Member/Agribusiness Expert Bemnet Woldu Field Manager
(PhD)
Teketel Abebe (PhD) Team Member/Senior Sociologist
Narrative description of the Project: The main objectives of the assignment are to conduct a situation analysis of
agribusiness, agroindustry and allied industries in the four IAIPs (and related ACPZs) and conducting gender
analysis of the agro-industry sector with gender action points. Thus, stand-alone reports will be prepared for the
situation analysis of agribusiness, agroindustry and allied industries in the four IAIPs, and gender analysis and
gender action points.

The results of the study will inform the project implementation teams on the baseline, guide in determining areas
for intervention, and track the progress made from the interventions of the projects.
Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment: Inception report that includes details of
workplan, training methodology and training materials, data collection agenda, the field movement plan and any
relevant annexes; Stand-alone draft reports on situation analysis of the agribusiness and agro-industry sector for
the four IAIPs and their ACPZs, and gender analysis report of the agro-industrial sector, together with
recommendations on concrete gender equality measures to integrate into the PROSEAD/BMZ-SI project
components ; Final reports for both situation analyses of agribusiness and agro-industry sector, and another for
the gender analysis of agroindustry sector; and
Both of the study reports that will be validated at validation workshop
 4. Applying a Human-Cantered Design approach to Design Community Conversations that Shift Social
and Gender Norms Underpinning Harmful Gender-Based Violence, Child Marriage and FGM within
Ethiopia*

Assignment name: Applying a Human-centred Approx. value of the contract (in current US$ or Euro):
Design approach to Design Community $ 77,718.15
Conversations that Shift Social and Gender
Norms Underpinning Harmful Gender-Based
Violence, Child Marriage and FGM within Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia (Amhara, Oromia, Afar, Somali, Duration of assignment (months): 4 months
SNNP) and Gambella
Name of Collaborating Institutions: UNICEF Total No of staff-months of the assignment: 30 months
Ethiopia,
Address: UNICEF Ethiopia’s country office. Approx. value of the services provided by your firm
under the contract (in current US$): 77,718.15

Start date (month/year): February 2021 to May 2021

(On progress)
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of
Subject Area Names of Professionals Subject Area
Professionals
Team Leader (Think Dr. Dawit Belew (Frontieri
Carlyn James Co-investigators
Place) Consult)
Dr. Sindu Co-investigators (Frontieri Negussie Shiferaw
Co-investigators
Kebede Consult) (Frontieri Consult)
Dereje Kifle Co-investigators (Frontieri Alene Matesntu (Frontieri
Co-investigators
(PhD.) Consult) Consult)
Co-investigators (Think
James Mayer Ines Gortari (Think Place) Co-investigators
Place)
Narrative description of Project: The ultimate long-term goal of this project is reduced rates of harmful practices,
specifically CM and FGM within Ethiopia by using HCD to increase the effectiveness and consistency of the
methods and toolkits used within the CC programme. The overall objectives of this project are: Design and field
test the updated toolkit and methodology for CC teams; Increase both awareness and positive behaviour change
among programme participants and their communities. This specific study aims to answer the following research
questions regarding CC: How might we optimize the structure of the Community Conversations model (including
but not limited to the optimum target audience, ideal group size, ideal number of participants per session and
modality to implement Community Conversations with the target audiences)?; How might we optimize the
conversation within Community Conversations sessions (including but not limited to defining the appropriate
messaging strategy, contextualizing the messaging to the region, etc.) so that it produces the desired
behavioural outcomes (i.e. reducing harmful gender norms)?; How might we define the link (change pathways)
between Community Conversations and the positive change required to reduce harmful gender norms; and how
might we better capture/document that link?; and How might we encourage open, honest, respectful dialogues
with partners about reproductive health, menstrual health and hygiene, and other sensitive issues?

Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment: In this project, Frontieri will be primarily
engaged in data collection tool revision, contextualization, and translation into four local languages (Amharic,
Afan Oromo, Somali and Afar); data collection, validation of revised toolkit; and training of trainers.
*This assignment was implemented in association with Think Place Kenya
 5. Formative Research on Successful Strategies to End FGM, Including Strategies to Increase Service
Seeking Behaviour and Strengthen Provision of Care, and Transform Harmful Inequitable Gender
Norms in Ethiopia

Assignment name: Formative Research on Successful Approx. value of the contract: $ 107,194.00
Strategies to End FGM, Including Strategies to Increase
Service Seeking Behaviour and Strengthen Provision of
Care, and Transform Harmful Inequitable Gender Norms in
Ethiopia
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months): 4 Month
Name of Client: United Nations Children’s Fund Total No. of staff-months of the assignment:
4
Address: UNICEF- Ethiopia, P.O. Box 1169; Africa Hall Approx. value of the services provided by
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia your firm under the contract (in current US$):
107,194.00
Start date (month/year): on Progress
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of
Names of Professionals Position Position
Professionals
Team Leader Social Co-Principal
Prof. Habtamu Wondimu Dr. Dawit Belew
Protection Specialist Investigator
Co-Principal
Teketel Abebe (PhD.) Daniel Aklilu Data Manger
Investigator
Co-Principal
Prof. Nigatu Regassa Alene Matsentu Survey Director
Investigator
Narrative description of the Project: The general objective of this assignment is to identify opportunities and
innovative approaches to increasing the demand for and improving the supply of health and protection services.
This formative research has two major components. The first component focuses on conducting meta-synthesis
to provide systemic overview and analysis of existing research and the focus for the second part of the research
will depend on the outcomes of the meta-synthesis and additional questions to be generated for the program
implementation. Based on the meta-synthesis, gaps will be identified that need further attention and qualitative,
in-depth investigation. The second part of the formative research will also complement the missing data and
information through primary data collection.
Description of actual services provided by our firm with in the assignment: The following are key deliverables of
the assignment: Inception report; Soft copy of literature review; Draft meta-synthesis report; Power point
presentation on key meta-synthesis findings; Final meta-synthesis report in words and pdf with raw data;
Workshop to generate key research questions; Inception report with refined methodology; Ethical clearance
document from relevant institution; Approved primary data collection tools; Training report; Mid-term field report;
Draft Assessment Report; Power point presentation on key assessment findings; and Final Assessment Report
in words and pdf with raw data.
 6. Labor Market Need Assessment and Tracer Study

Assignment Name: Labour Market Need

Approx. value of the contract (Euro): $ 54,166.67
Assessment and Tracer Study

Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment: 4 months

Name of Client: - Holeta Polytechnic College,
EASTRIP
Address: Ethiopia
Start date (month/year): June 2022
End date (month/year): September 2022

Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:

Names of Name of
Position Position
Professionals Professionals
Paulos Asrat (PhD) Team Leader Yirgalem Eshete Analyst
Prof Ali Senior Labor Market
Alene Matesntu Field Team Member
Mohammed Study Expert
Melaku Mengistu Senior Tracer Study
Abraham Haile Field Team Member
(PhD) Specialist
Daniel Aklilu Data Manager Tamiru Jote Project Coordinator

Narrative description of Project:

The major intention of this consultancy service was to conduct Labor Market Need Assessment and Tracer
Study of graduates of Holeta Polytechnic College. The Frontieri team will consult and support the college on its
vision to become flagship institute in Ethiopia and East Africa by providing compressive information on:
Employability of its graduates including the uptake of self-employment opportunities, and labor market needs of
Agro processing graduates in the catchment area of the college in particular and the country in general.
Description of actual services that will be provided by our firm within the assignment:
Inception and preparation,
Data collection,
Data analysis and reporting phases
Submission of edited draft document for validation to HPC;
Submission of Validated Final Document in English
 7. Agricultural Labor as a Constraint for Women Farmers: Time Use, Management and Markets High
Frequency Survey Data Collection

Assignment name: Agricultural Labor as a Constraint Approx. value of the contract (in current US$):
for Women Farmers: Time Use, Management 342,615
and Markets High Frequency Survey Data Collection
Country: Ethiopia: Amhara, Oromia, and SNNP region Duration of assignment (months): 10 months
Name of Client: The World Bank Group Total No. of staff-months of the assignment:
Address: The World Bank Group Approx. value of the services provided by your
firm under the contract: $ 342,615
Start date (month/year): December, 2021
Completion date: September, 2022
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of Names of
Position Position
Professionals Professionals
Tsadkan Alemayehu Project Manger Daniel Aklilu Data Manager
Abraham Haile Survey Coordinator Alene Matesntu Survey Manager
Questionnaire
Ameha Ademe
Programmer
Narrative description of the Project: The overarching goal of the proposed panel study is to identify factors
constraining female farmers’ productivity and to develop intervention recommendations to tackle the existing
productivity differentials. In view of this understanding, one of the main objectives of the proposed study is to
collect men and women’s time use, agricultural labor use, making and implementing of decisions involved in
organizing and operating a farm (farm management), differentiated returns to farm labor and other factors, and
data on labor market conditions that are differently faced by male and female headed households. The study
woredas and kebeles are selected from the RLLP watersheds in the 4 national regional states in collaboration
with the World Bank project team (GIL team). Frontieri is expected to undertake 1,200 household interviews in a
baseline survey plus in 12 repeated waves, high frequency labor data collection for each of the male and female
plot managers and plots of the 1200 sample households. We are expected to support the conduct of a
complementary qualitative research, as well.
Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment; Survey Preparation; Recruitment and
Formation of Survey Teams; Prepare training manuals with research and ethical protocol and key concepts
covered in the Questionnaires; Field work training for enumerators, supervisors, survey coordinators and data
manager; Undertaking Interviews /Fieldwork; Data Management; Weekly field reports to the WB GIL research
team; A fully cleaned, coded and labelled whole panel datasets; and Upholding Ethics and Confidentiality.
 8. A Study on Marketing and Technical Analysis of Livelihood Opportunities Prioritized by Community
Following Community Livelihood Plan Development at Kebele Level

Assignment name: A Study on Marketing and Approx. value of the contract (in current US$ or Euro):
Technical Analysis of Livelihood Opportunities $45,000.00
Prioritized by Community Following Community
Livelihood Plan Development at Kebele Level
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months): 3 months
Location within country: Oromia, Amhara, & SNNPR
Name of Client: Pastoral Community Development Total No. of staff-months of the assignment: 3 months
Project – Ministry of Federal Affairs
Address: Approx. value of the services provided by your firm
Pastoral Community Development Project under the contract (in current US$): 45,000.00
Food Security, Federal Project Coordination Unit
(PCDP-FPCU), P.O. Box 5608,
Start date (month/year): Aug. 2015
Completion date: Oct. 2015
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:
Names of
Names of Professionals Position Position
Professionals
Dr. Workneh Negatu Team leader Dr. Ayalew Gebre Pastoral Anthropologist
Marketing
Rakshit Nagi Mr. Daniel Melese Project Coordinator
specialist
Livestock
Dr. Girma Kebede
Specialist
Narrative description of the Project:
The objective of the consultancy is to conduct market and technical analyses study in order to identify income
generating activities/investment opportunities through market, value chain and social analyses for long list of
livelihood activities expressed by the community during community livelihood plan development.
Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment:
The market assessment study has covered 12 Woredas within four regional states (Somali, Afar, Oromiya and
SNNPR). It covers 38 Woredas in three regions: Oromia (18), Amhara (12) and SNNP (8).
About 8 agro-pastoralists woredas from the targeted regions of Somali, Afar, SNNPR and Oromia (Two Woereda
from each)
About 4 Woredas from Somali and Afar (two from each) were selected from pure pastoralist areas of Somali and
Afar Regional States.
Within the four regional states, we approached a total of 120 households, out of which 40 HHS from the pure
pastoralist, while the remaining 80 from agro-pastoralist. The total proposed kebele is assumed to be 24.
 9. Conduct the Yegna Audience Market Research Survey across Addis Ababa and Amhara regions in
Ethiopia

Assignment name: -Conduct the Yegna Audience Market Approx. value of the contract (in current
Research Survey across Addis Ababa and Amhara regions in US$ or Euro): $241,283.41
Ethiopia to Girls Effect
Country: Ethiopia Duration of assignment (months) 7
Location within country: Addis Ababa and Amhara Region months

Name of Client: -Girl Effect, a charitable company registered in Total No of staff-months of the
England & Wales. assignment: 7 months.
Address: -Girl Effect, a charitable company registered in England & Approx. value of the services provided
Wales (company number 07516619 and registered charity number by your firm under the contract (in
1141155), whose registered office is at Film House, 142 Wardour current USD): - 241,283.41
Street, London W1F 8ZU
Start date (month/year): 12 June 2017
Completion date: 17 December 2017
Name of senior professionals involved and functions performed:

Names of Professionals Subject Area Names of Professionals Subject Area

Mr. Yigrem Tefera Survey Director Mr. Fitsum Tsegaye Data Entry Agent
Mr. Jemal Abdi Statistician Mr. Alene Matsentu Field Coordinator
Mr. Daniel Aklilu Data Manager Mr. Thewodros W/Georgis Project Manager
Narrative description of Project: - The main objective of the survey is to obtain a better understanding of the
media and brand landscape, barriers to media access, and media consumption habits as well as the awareness,
perceptions of and engagement of target audiences with the Yegna brand and its products.
Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment:
Frontieri is responsible for the following primary tasks, delivered to the specifications detailed in the final
proposal. Deliver a weekly progress report to M&C Saatchi World Services.
Refining and finalizing the sampling plan for the survey component in consultation with M&C Saatchi World
Services; Translation (and back-translation) of the survey instrument into appropriate local languages (Amharic);
Scripting of the survey in an appropriate digital programme and thorough testing of the script before sending to
M&C Saatchi World Services for final testing. Provision of final version of the script, dummy data set and dummy
data tables to M&C Saatchi World Services for verification;
Provision of appropriate digital devices for training and data collection;
Recruiting and training competent interviewers, of whom at least 50% are female, and other relevant staff, and
producing a training manual and other materials;
Preparing for and conducting the fieldwork training for field staff in close collaboration with M&C Saatchi World
Services. Piloting and finalising the survey instruments in close collaboration with M&C Saatchi World Services.
Piloting to consist of at least 20 interviews with girls 10-19 (upon a consent obtained from parents), 20 interviews
with boys 10-19, 10 interviews with adult women and 10 interviews with adult men. Cleaned data from the pilot
interviews provided to M&C Saatchi World Services;
Preparing and implementing data collection and related quality control procedures. This includes checking on at
least 15% of interviews, either in person or via telephone and in-person supervision of at least 15% of interviews
conducted by each interviewer;
Provision of the completed fieldwork and fieldwork Quality Control forms to M&C Saatchi World Services on a
weekly basis during field work; Ensure and monitor adherence to respondent protection processes (including
liaison and informing the Child Protection focal contact from the end client if/when necessary);
Survey data cleaning, verification and processing; Provision of the final labelled and cleaned SPSS data set in
English of the full completed sample; Provision of the final Project report, covering the study design, fieldwork
preparation, training and piloting, fieldwork implementation, implementation of the quality control measures, any
issues faced and how they were tackled, response rates.
 10. Country Profiling and Needs Assessment in Support of Private Sector Capacity Development

Assignment name: Country Profiling and Needs
Assessment in Support of Private Sector Capacity
Development
Country: Ethiopia
Location within country: National level
Name of Client:
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)
Approx. value of the contract (in current US$ or Euro):
$112,000
Duration of assignment (months): Three Months
Total No of staff-months of the assignment: Three
Months

Address: Approx. value of the services provided by your firm

Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI),
Dr. Girum Abebe
e-mail: girumpop@yahoo.com
Tel: +251910686997
Start date (month/year): October, 2014
Completion date (month/year): December, 2014
under the contract (in current US$ or Euro):
$112,000
No of professional staff-months provided by
associated Consultants: Three Months

Names of
Names of Professionals Position Position
Professionals
Dr. Tadele Ferede Team Leader Mr. Atlaw Alemu Senior Experts
Dr. Fenta Alemayehu Senior Experts Sewhareg Adamu Project coordinator
Mr. Amin Abdella Senior Experts
Narrative description of Project: The general objective of this consultancy assignment is to profile the capacity of
the business enterprises (medium and large export enterprises, women and youth entrepreneurs) as well as to
conduct a comprehensive capacity development needs assessment at the national level. The purpose is to
understand capacity assets and needs and build a consensus regarding capacity development priorities and
thereby bring valuable input into a National Capacity Development Program for the Private Sector. The ensuing
capacity assessment, therefore, generate an overview of priorities for capacity development within the enabling
environment and in some cases within particular organizations across the private sector.

To fulfil the above objectives, high quality data was collected through FGDs with peoples from the strategic sub-
sectors (e.g., leather, textile, metal and engineering, agro-processing, Cement, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and
Sugar) in selected cities. Women owned businesses, youths, exporters and peoples working on human resource
and organizational development in the above sub-sectors were part of the focus group discussion. Similarly, KII
with different official was held for more analysis. Case studies were also undertaken with selected private
enterprises.
We have completed the Country Profiling and developed a draft strategy for private sector development with due
attention to the manufacturing industry.
Description of actual services provided by our firm within the assignment:
Coordinating the project, developing data collecting instruments, collecting relevant data through FGD, KII and
case studies, data verification, data entry, analysis, report writing, developing private sector capacity
development strategy focusing on the manufacturing sector and strategic sub-sectors, presentation of the study
to clients at a workshop etc.