Staff Members CV

The Center has more than 45 senior-level faculty from national, regional, and international institutions. ACEWM affiliated 38 faculty who are engaged in teaching, research, joint supervision of students, and offering short courses.

Teshome Emana

Water Governance, Law, and Socioeconomics
Academic and Professional Education
  • Research Fellow, African Studies Centre (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan), October 2019 - January 2020.
  • PhD in Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, December 2014
  • MA in Social Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, August 2007.
  • MA English as a Foreign Language, Addis Ababa University, July 1995.
  • BA in English Language, Asmara University, July 1988.
Training
  • Leadership Development Programme (UNDP, October2004 –April 2005).
  • National Coaches’ Training on Leadership Development Programme (UNDP, Nov. 2005)
Work Experience and Professional Activities
  • September 2012 up to now Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, College of Social Sciences Addis Ababa University.
  • September 1998 up to July 2006 Lecturer, Ethiopian Civil Service College
  • September 1997 – June 1998 Lecturer, Alemaya University
Experience in Administrative Works

  At various times, I have assumed different responsibilities in which I  accomplished all as required of me.

  • Head, Department of Social Anthropology (2017-2019)
  • Head, Continuing Education Programme, Ethiopian Civil Service College (March 2003  August 2006)
Academic Research and Publications
  • Teshome Emana. (January 2021). Land Market and Actors’ Network in the burbs of Addis Ababa (Upcoming book chapter to be published by School of Law, AAU).
  • Teshome Emana. (December 2015) .Book Review Addis Ababa: The Evolution of an Urban African Cultural Landscape (Roland Reminick, 2010) . Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, December 2015. Vol XI,No 2.
  • Teshome Emana. (June 2015). The Transforming Power of urbanization: Changes and Uncertainties among the Farming Community in Laga Xafo- Laga Dadhi Town, Ethiopia. Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Vol. XI, No.1
  • Urban Land Transaction, Actors Conflicts, and some approaches to Resolution, a paper to be presented on the 5th International conference on 5th African  Forum: Local Knowledge as African Potential, Addis ababa Ethiopia.
  • Teshome Emana (2014). The Transforming Power of Urbanization: Changes and Uncertainties amog the Farming Community in Laga Xafo – Laga Dadhi Town, Ethiopia (PH.D Dissertation defended in December 2014, Addis Ababa University)
  • Teshome Emana (2001). Gender Differences in Mathematics Achievement in Primary Schools of Addis Ababa (A Research Sponsored by OSSREA for the 12th Gender Issues Research competition, 2001.)
 Conference papers  
  •  Teshome Emana (November 28-29, 2020). Land Market and Actors’ Network in the Suburbs of Addis Ababa. A Paper Presented at the Conference on ‘Urban Land Question in Ethiopia: Focus on Access to Justice and Dispute Resolutions’.  Elili Hotel, Addis (Ethiopia)
  • Teshome Emana ( February  2020).  Land Policy and Urban Development in Ethiopia: A Review of Land Commercialization since 1991. (Protestant Institute of Arts and Social Sciences and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Joint Seminar on Resource Management and Development, February 18-19, 2020, Rwanda.
  • Emana T, Zewge F, Sule M, et al., 2019, Schistosomiasis Awareness and Community Water Contact Practices in Kemise Town, Ethiopia, 6th Annual International Conference on Public Health, Bangkok-Thailand.
  • Teshome Emana (Nov 2019). Land and Youth Migration in Africa: The case of two Districts from the Highlands of Ethiopia. (Institute of Developing Economies, IDE-JETRO), Tokyo-Japan.
  • Teshome Emana. ( December, 2019). Urban Land Deal, Competing Perceptions, and Actors’ Network in the Suburbs of Addis Ababa City, Ethiop The 12th KU-TUFS research exchange seminar, Kyoto-Japan).
  • Teshome Emana (July 2019). Land Never Lands Under Our Sky’: Land Transaction and Actors Network in the Suburbs of Finfinnee/ Addis Ababa. 33rd Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association (July 26-28, 2019), Addis Ababa-Ethiopia.
  • Teshome Emana (January 2019). "Using Indigenous Cultural Framework of an African Society to Explain Modern Governance". A paper presented on the Symposium on African Potentialat the Centre of African Studies in Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Teshome Emana. (Nov 2017).  "The Political economy of Land in a Rural-Urban Interface in Ethiopia". 60th African Studies Association Annual Meeting with the theme ‘Institutions: Creativity and Resilience in Africa’, Nov 16-18, 2017, Chicago-USA.
  • Teshome Emana.(2015). "Urban Land Transaction, Actors Conflicts, and some approaches to Resolution". 5th International Conference on African Forum: Local Knowledge as African Potential, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia.
 Consultancy Works Work Experience Related to the proposed assessment  

The following works are related to the proposed assessment.

  • Ethiopian Industrial Development Strategy ( document translation Commissioned by Industry Development Projects , May 2014)
  • Country Partnership Strategy Document , document translation commissioned by the World Bank ,May to June 2013.
  • Training Manual for Water Utilites in Ethiopia,document translation  commissioned by the World Bank , December 2012.
  • Strategy for Ensuring Equitable Development through accelerated and Sustainable Development in Emerging Regions of Ethiopia, document translation commissioned by the World Bank, September 2012.
  • Concept Paper for Ethiopian Five Year Strategic Plan, document translation Commissioned by The World Bank, Ethiopia ,2009.
The following works are accomplished at various times.
  • Rural Water Supply Evaluation in Ethiopia ( commissioned by WABEKBON Development Consultants and the Ministry of Water Resources, Irrigation and Energy (August – Sept 2015)
  • Assistant researcher for evaluating the programme on Harnessing Diversity for Sustainable Development and Social Change, ( a joint project funded by UNESCO and UNDP ( recruited by Dr Beyene Tadesse, economic and social policy consultant, December 2012 )
  •  Researcher, for evaluating Urban Area Development Programme in Addis Ababa (commissioned by WABEKBON Development Consultants for World Vision Ethiopia, April to May 2012)
  • Urbanization and Socioeconomic and Cultural Changes among the Farming Community in Sebeta Area ( MA Thesis, Addis Ababa University, Department of Social Anthropology, June 2007)
  • Basic Education System Overall Evaluation in Ethiopia (recruited by USAID Ethiopia for data collection and research report writing, 2007.
  • General Education Quality improvement Programme Evaluation , Recruited by USAID Ethiopia for data collection and report writing .2009
  • Faith –Based Organizations and their Roles in HIV/AIDS Prevention and Development Activities (Commissioned byEIFFDA and WIBD Consult, 2004)
  • Urbanization and the livelihood of farmers in Suburbs of Addis Ababa, a livelihood survey sponsored by OSSREA, Ethipian Chapter, August2008.
  • Food Security Initiatives and the Role of Faith Based Organizations in Ethiopia , a Survey on the profile of the religious organizations in Ethiopia ( Sponsored by Ethiopian Interfaith Forum for Dialogue  and Development)