Yibeltal Tebekaw Bayou (PhD) is an experienced Monitoring and Evaluation Expert, a Researcher, Public Health Expert, and Demographer with more than 18 years of professional experience locally and internationally, on the areas of Sexuality and Reproductive Health including Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Adolescent and Young Peoples Reproductive Health, HIV/AID, and Family Planning among others. He has led the execution of several operational research and evaluation activities including program learning studies, situational assessments, baseline surveys, mid-term evaluations, gender assessments, and organisational capacity assessments. He has been an elemental member of the National Research Advisory Council for RMNCAH-N and has a proven track of record on development of study protocols, evaluation frameworks (results-based), performance monitoring plan (PMP), quantitative and qualitative approaches on data collection tools development, data management and analysis using advanced statistical software, data quality check, field-level supervision, proven track of record on documentation including program and evaluation report writing, and publication of research findings on peer-reviewed journals and presentation of papers on local and international forums. He has many years of experience in leading multidisciplinary teams of programs (team of M&E, Program, Research, and Service Providers at different levels) experience of working on projects funded by multiple donors. He is committed to professionalism and public health ethics.
