Belay Mengesha

Background

About Belay Mengesha

Belay, tri-linguistic capacity (Afaan Oromoo, English & Amharic), MBA in Business Administration, and MA in cooperatives Management, with 24 years of professional experience as privatesector developemebnt, partime consultant, business developement/advisory service provider, Value chain development, market system, and cooperatives Development, mentoring & coaching services, business networking, access to finance & input/output marketing linkage facilitator, Detailed below: • Agricultural value chains (crops, livestock’s, & Horticulture), market system and cooperatives Development Advisor, working with farmers, primary cooperatives, Unions, Agricultural SMEs, associations, private & public agencies from regional and Federal level in areas of agriculture best practices, marketing, business to business matchings, public-private dialogues, business planning, fund raising & financing, access to finance, institutional capacity developments, working with international and local NGOs, and Donors fund management(USAID,CIDA, Bill-and Malinda Gates foundations), quality & timely reporting of the project implementations, • Promotion, strengthening & institutional capacity building project implementations, working as monitoring & evaluations of project activities, coaching, multiple-stakeholder facilitations, training need and gap identifications, training module development and also translations, data collection tool development & facilitations of data collection & analysis, and delivery of adult friendly trainings to model farmers, development agents, experts, and local capacity builders, • Par time consultant as capacity building specialist for Precise international consultancy PLC in designing and implementing Agribusiness Leadership Trainings for associations, SMEs, and Farmers in malt barely sector on behalf of International Financial corporation(IFC), • Organizational representations of Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency as project Team Leader, and Ambo Farmers’ cooperative Union as Manager, Weltane Ambo Saving & Credit Union Board of Director, in public-private dialogise, local working groups, fairs & conferences, & other stakeholders for win-win business approaches and collaborations in common areas of implementations, • Organization of business matching and knowledge & experience sharing events (fairs, study tours, conferences) with informal agricultural marketing groups, SME agribusiness (Ethio-feeds, Ethio-Chickens), agro-dealers, retailers, & associations,