Dr. Tesfaye Beshah is an expert in agricultural innovation systems and has a PhD in social sciences from Wageningen University. He has 21 years of experience at Haramaya University, where, among others, he taught courses on cooperatives, agricultural finance, and research methods, with proficiency in SPSS and Microsoft Office. Dr. Beshah has worked with international organisations like ILRI (India), the World Vegetable Center (Taiwan), GRM International (Papua New Guinea), and IGAD (HoA). Currently, as IGAD's Regional Programming Coordinator, he leads resilience programming, translating the IDDRSI strategy into national and subnational initiatives using a socio-ecological resilience approach. He has also conducted feasibility studies on agricultural cooperatives and evaluation, Savings and Credit Associations based on cooperative principles. Dr. Beshah has a strong background in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and has taught qualitative and quantitative research methodologies at the undergraduate and graduate levels, applying them to various rural development projects nationally and regionally.
