Research and policy advisor | Associate | IRC Ethiopia
Ephraim Mebrate Disasa is an associate to IRC since 1 October 2021. Prior to that Ephraim was a Research and Policy Advisor to IRC. Before joining IRC in 2019, Ephraim had been working in an International NGO, Higher Academic Institutions and Psychiatric Hospital for the last 10 years. Ephraim has track record for Market and Health Research in areas of WASH, FP, HIV, Nutrition and Mental Health. During his five and half year stay at PSI/Ethiopia, Ephraim conducted wide arrays of market and health researches geared towards programme improvements and policy influencing.
Ephraim did his baccalaureate and graduate studies from Addis Ababa University in Sociology and Social Anthropology and Social Work in Health Care Setting where he graduated with very great distinction.
Increasing repair and maintenance funds leads to higher borehole functionality and water access rates in the drought-prone regions of Turkana, Kenya... Read more...
Successful pathways secured uptake by government and had flexible programming. Read more...
More emphasis is needed on building and strengthening the work of multi-stakeholder platforms in WASH at the national level. Read more...
Comparing water utilities in Kenya, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and the United States reveals a gap between the full costs of service delivery and budgets of... Read more...
Conclusions and reflections on the use of the Social Accountability Model developed by Water Witness International in the Watershed programme in... Read more...
The SMART market-based approach is contributing to SDG 6 and beyond. Its impact is significant, but localised. Read more...
Multi-stakeholder engagement is critical for making progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 'Ensure access to water and sanitation for... Read more...
Tactics and approaches for evidence-based advocacy. Lessons learned from 13 case studies in six countries. Read more...
Practical experiences of adaptation from the Watershed empowering citizens country programmes in Kenya and Bangladesh. Read more...
What are the challenges with Water Point Mapping? and what lessons can be learned from the failures? What about the future of Water Point Mapping?... Read more...
Poor urban and rural households [in] Kenya : hygiene improvement practices programme, c-change, AED-Kenya : paper presented at the East Africa... Read more...