Ethiopia has been challenged with so many man-made and natural problems. These problems drag the country down from moving forward in the development ladder. Cognizant of this fact, different regimes of the country have designed and implemented social protection programs, even though the programs were not as comprehensive as the one developed and implemented since…
This paper looks at the role of improving access to financial services on rural farm households’ socio-economic status in Ethiopia using a national survey data collected from 1559 households for the end-evaluation of Rural Financial Intermediation Program II (RUFIP-II) project. In order to assess the role of access to credit on rural farm households’…
By Dr. Belaineh Legesse, Managing Partner of Frontieri Consult – Ethiopia The notion of food security seeks to address the issue of food and hunger through sufficient production of food at individual, family, or country level. Countries can attain food security when they are able to support their agriculture and produce food to guarantee the right…
By Yohannes Mebrate, Team Leader, Qualitative Research The activities we undertake in our everyday life are now digitally mediated, stored, and analyzed by firms and various organs. Big Data is a large volume, rapidly generated, digitally encoded information that is often related to other networked data, and can provide valuable evidence for study of phenomena (Kathy A.…
The Rationale and Objectives of Conducting the Survey The primary objective of this national level corruption perception survey is to determine the perceived levels of corruption in Ethiopia, and promote public debates and drive demand for change on corruption. The specific objectives of the study are to: Identify the trend and status of corruption after…
1. INTRODUCTION This brief macro-level diagnostic review is the outcome of a study on macro-level diagnostics refresh which was one integral part of the Ethiopia country wide diagnostic refresh based on mainly secondary data and a qualitative information collected through KIIs and FGDs conducted to enrich the report. This country diagnostic refresh report is prepared…
A Validation Workshop on Ethiopian Third National Corruption Perception Survey was held at the Sheraton Addis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 19 July 2021. The study was conducted by Frontieri Consult, owned by The Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in conjunction with United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The workshop was attended by members of the parliament including the Deputy Speaker of Ethiopia’s House of Peoples Representatives, her…
Frontieri was awarded from United Nations Office for Project Services(UNOPS)/ Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) to conduct Ethiopia Programme Outcome Survey for Global Sanitation Fund (GSF). The Main objective of this outcome survey was to assess the use, access, reach, program exposure, equity, social norms, and behaviors to make inferences on the level…
Dear Frontieri family members, clients, and partners! The year 2020 hasn’t been a great year for all humanity as it was the time millions lost their lives across the globe due to a novel virus – the coronavirus – that still continued threatening all countries around the world. The year has left an indelible mark…
According to the World Bank 2020 assessment of doing business, procedure, time, and cost are the key indicators used to measure for starting a business as a limited liability company. It is clear that lengthy requirements and costly processes to start-up affect the number and size of firms willing to enter into the market. In…
The Opportunity Frontieri highly believes, quality research output by researchers is important for an informed decision making and to be able to identify major intervention areas. In the course of our engagement in research endeavors over the past 12 years and serving wide-ranging clients, we have learnt that there are many promising PhD candidates who,…
A Call for Research Associates (For experts residing in Eastern African countries) ABOUT Frontieri Frontieri Consult P.L.C based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a branch office in Berlin, Germany, works with staffs of distinguished professionals of diversified disciplines to achieve its vision of becoming the lead think tank group that supports informed policy making in Ethiopia…
Frontieri was commissioned to conduct Validation of global ACT framework by UNICEF/UNFPA in collaboration with University of Drexel, USA. The ACT Framework is a macro-level, global monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework designed to measure and track changes in social norms around female genital mutilation (FGM). Ethiopia and Guinea were selected to undertake the validation exercise.…
Frontieri has taken part in improving the Ethiopian trade facilitation through leading the “Ethiopian Trade Logistics Baselines Collection” project of the World Bank Group. Background Narrative International trade is among the many ways of increasing interactions between people, governments and supply chains across countries and regions. As this increasing interaction is a beneficial for many…
The World Bank Group/ International Finance Corporation designed the Ethiopian Investment Climate Program to strengthen Ethiopia’s capacity to create an enabling environment for private sector development. It aims to do this by building the capacity of relevant government institutions to create and implement effective institutional frameworks and systems that support private sector development. The program…
“A Baseline Study of Selected Socio-ecological Landscapes in the Horn of Africa Region” is a transboundary project commissioned to Frontieri by Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network (HoA-REC&N). The HoA-REC&N is a regional organization with headquarters in Ethiopia and chapter offices in Kenya, south Sudan and Djibouti. HoA-REC&N is the lead center and…
COVID-19 occurrence is an unprecedented situation for governments and companies. Institutions are having a challenging time to come to terms with the outbreak of COVID-19.Organization leaders are responding promptly and urgently to the best of their capacity. Above all, this time is pointed out as key moment for leaders to step up and do what’s…
Dr Sentayehu Assefa Senior Medical Doctor, Germany Dr. Sentayehu Assefa is specialist of Medical Microbiology and Infection Epidemiology, Internal Medicine/Gastroenterology. He studied medicine at the University Hospital Jena, Germany. He has many years of practical experience in his field at the University Hospital Jena, Germany. He also worked as a consultant in internal medicine-gastroenterology in…
The study indicated that more than two thirds of the respondents did not consider Coronavirus as a threat. Likewise, the reported perceived chance of contracting the disease was too low where only less than 9.4% of them felt high probability of contracting the disease. Access the full report https://www.docdroid.net/jbD43NX/02-perceptions-of-risks-and-impacts-of-covid-19-among-the-public-in-ethiopia-pdf
The result shows various coping strategies were used by respondents to compensate for the income decline due to COVID-19 pandemic. The participants reported that the most commonly used coping strategy against income decline is saving. From the total sample of respondents who faced an income decline, 56.3% of them reported to have used their saving…
The findings also reveal that there are still reasonable amount of knowledge gaps among females than males, among older age groups than younger ones, and residents of certain regions in correctly identifying the means of transmission and key symptoms among the population. Access the full report https://www.docdroid.net/ltz6u8g/knowledge-and-attitude-towards-covid-19-in-ethiopia-pdf
The vast majority (73%) of respondents washed their hands as preventive mechanism. This is an encouraging number with about 50% of them washing their hands about 6-10 times per day. The average number of times of washing hands per day is 8, as self-reported by respondents. Access the full report https://www.docdroid.net/nonwqs7/adoption-of-preventive-practices-for-covid-19-in-ethiopia-pdf
Frontieri has taken the initiative in conducting, nationally representative telephone-based surveys, under our project entitled “Preliminary Assessment of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Ethiopia”. The major objective of the survey was to assess the current awareness, knowledge and behavior of people in Ethiopia and to identify the key gaps and issues that need to be addressed…
Frontieri won the research project “Understanding Migration in Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) Areas Study” of World Bank worth of 247,489 USD. The general purpose of the research project is to undertake an empirical study of the inter-linkages between PSNP and migration, especially labor mobility, and to assess the extent to which PSNP public work…
Contribution handover ceremony at the Ministry of peace – On the left-Ambassador Misganaw Arega (Chair of national resource mobilization committee) on the right -Mr Alene Matsentu- (Survey Management and Data Analytics Division Director at Frontieri ) Ambassador Misganaw Arega passing his gratefulness message for the contribution made What we did COVID-19 is transforming the way…
As part of its corporate social responsibility, Frontieri Consult launched annual partial scholarship opportunity for Ethiopian PhD candidates. The basic objective of launching the program was our deep-rooted vision of giving back to the community in which our firm is outstanding on- knowledge generation and dissemination through research. We as a firm believes knowledge has…
April /2020 Interview As the winner of Frontieri 2019 partial scholarship opportunity, we interviewed the PHD candidate and winner Gebrekiros Welegebriel Asfaw on his personal and professional Journey. Frontieri: please introduce us Gebrekiros Welegebriel Gebrekiros : My name is Gebrekiros Welegebriel Asfaw. I was born and raised in Tembien, in Tigray region from a proud…
Frontieri is commissioned by the international finance corporation (IFC –The World Bank group) to plan and conduct a baseline survey and study that enables to gather the necessary quantitative and qualitative data required to define the impact of participation in malt barley supply chain using a quasi-experimental design. The project is aimed to increase local…
Frontieri was commissioned to conduct Validation of global ACT framework by UNICEF/UNFPA in collaboration with University of Drexel, USA. The ACT Framework is a macro-level, global monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework designed to measure and track changes in social norms around female genital mutilation (FGM). Ethiopia and Guinea were selected to undertake the validation exercise.…
A Validation Workshop for case studies of the programme “Stemming Irregular Migration in Northern and Central Ethiopia (SINCE)’ was held on February 18, 2020 at Jupiter International Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop aimed to substantiate the findings of the case studies of SINCE programme funded by European Commission. The work on the Case studies…
At Frontieri, we know how important it is to provide our staff with time for presenting their insights and share their findings and experiences. Which is why our Coffee & Paper sessions have been launched with an objective of initiating in-house paper presentation culture, creating an interactive scientific platform, promoting exchange of ideas and receiving…
Frontieri won projects that takes its research and evaluation work to the next level. In the mid of December, 2019, Frontieri succeeded in winning two prominent projects from world’s leading development partners, the World Bank and UNDP. ‘Ethiopia Trade Logistics Baselines Collection’ is a project of the World Bank group which Frontieri will mainly…
Frontieri is a renowned consultancy and research firm, which works in priority areas: agriculture and rural development, economic growth, social protection, development impact evaluation and other related areas. As part of its corporate social responsibility, Frontieri has started granting Partial Scholarship opportunity program for Ethiopian PhD students every year. The program was launched on October…
Fronteiri won the Horn of Africa Environmental Sustainability and Resilience (HoA-ESR) Project. The project titled “A Baseline Study of Selected Socio-ecological Landscapes in the Horn of Africa Region” is awarded to Fronteiri to specifically deliver the assignment of conducting a baseline study on selected socio-ecological landscapes in the Horn of Africa. The project will be…
Frontieri is contracted by the World Bank Group for implementation of the assignment titled: “Rural Safety Net National Spot Check”. The primary objective of the assignment is to provide regular and timely external feedback to the Government of Ethiopia and stakeholders of the rural safety net on the extent to which program implementation is in…
As the field work for the assignment “BASELINE AND FEASIBILITY STUDY ON FORESTRY AND LIVELIHOODS IN REDD+ INVESTMENT” has completed, Frontieri team conducted debriefing, on 21th of October 2019, with the six supervisors in the presence all the concerned consultants and representative of UNDP/EFCCC. Frontieri has deployed, Seven supervisors (Teams), 21 household enumerators (3 each…
A debriefing meeting/workshop was held at Frontieri from October 15-18 October /2019 with the UNJP team, Drexel University and the field staffs so as to get feedback on the validation tools of the ACT Framework for Measuring FGM Social Norms. The meeting/workshop mainly focused on the field experience which was conducted from 06 August -04…
To: All Public Universities Subject: Competitive Partial Scholarship Opportunity for Ethiopian PhD Candidates Frontieri Consult PLC, one of the leading consulting firms in Ethiopia, takes a great pleasure to announce the launch of its national PhD Partial Scholarship opportunity program for Ethiopian PhD students who have completed their course work and are ready to start…
A Validation Workshop organized by Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) and National Bank of Ethiopia was held at Sapphire Addis on September 19, 2019. Frontieri presented findings of the assignment entitled: “Impact Evaluation Study of the Rural Financial Inter mediation Program II (RUFIP II)”, a project commissioned by the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE).” About…
Frontieri has deployed a total of 42 Field staffs to conduct data collection for “A Baseline and Feasibility study on forestry and livelihoods in REDD+ Investment”, a project implemented for the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission (EFCCC) with a financial aid of UNDP. The team of filed experts includes seven supervisors, twenty one enumerators,…
The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) is the flagship program of the food security strategy of the Ethiopian government. The PSNP was launched in 2005 and is currently in its fourth phase. Currently, the program provides a range of support to food insecure households in eight regions. Through the PSNP, predictable safety net support is…
Over the last decade, UNFPA, UNICEF & other partners have implemented a Joint Program to accelerate the abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in 17 countries, 16 of which are in Africa. This program is now in its third phase, with the first phase (2008-2013) implemented in seven countries, including Ethiopia; the second phase (2014-2017)…
Based on the recent Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data, about 38% of children in Ethiopia, under the age of five are underdeveloped. The prevalence of wasting among children under the age of five is recorded to be 10%. In terms of prevalence of underweight, it is recorded to about 24% among children under the…
INTRODUCTION Since the introduction of the 1994 Education and Training Policy, the Ethiopian government has initiated and implemented five successive longitudinal education sector development programs (ESDPs) with the intention to achieve improved access, efficiency, equity, quality, and relevance. Reform efforts implemented through the programs have brought about rapid education system expansion. Despite the achievements in…
