Research & Project Grant

1. Principal Consultant: “Assessment of Digital Education in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions and Development of a Strategic Roadmap”.  Client: SHAYASHONE Private Limited Company on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Ethiopia. June 2025 - March 2026. (Project Deliverables: (1) Strategic Roadmap for the Adoption of Digital Education in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions; (2) Digital Competence Framework and Implementation Strategy for Ethiopian Higher Education Teachers; (3) Quality Assurance Framework for Digital Education in Ethiopian Universities; (4)   Digital Education Risk Management Strategy; and (5) Policy Recommendations for Strengthening Digital Education in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions).

2. Principal Consultant: Developing “Institutional e-Learning Policy Guideline for Higher Educational Institutions in Ethiopia”; Client: Ministry of Education, April 2023 – August 2023.

3. Consultant: Developing “National ICT in Education Policy for Ethiopia”; Client: Ministry of Education, April 2023 – September 2023.

4. Principal Consultant: “Assessment of Digital Education in Ethiopian Higher Education Institutions and Development of a Strategic Roadmap”; August 2025-March 2026. (Employer: Shayashone Private Limited Company.)

5. Thematic research on “Integration of ICTs for Sustainable Development,” Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia. (Grant Period 2017-2019)

o   Sub-Project Theme #1: E-Service Design and Evaluation

o   Sub-Project Theme #2: ICT Regulatory Environment in Ethiopia: The Way Forward

o   Sub-Project Theme #3: Capacitation Road Map for SMEs in the software development business in Ethiopia (ICT Human Capital)

o   Sub-Project Theme #4: ICT infrastructure for sustainable development of E-services.

6. Principal Consultant, Developing “Multimedia Studio Utilization and Sharing Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Higher Educational Institutions in Ethiopia”; Client: Ministry of Education, March-April, 2024.

7. Consultant, Developing a Digital Skills Country Action Plan (DSCAP) for Ethiopian higher education and TVET institutions

8. Project Concept entitled “Establish a Forum for Science-Policy Interface in Ethiopia’ which is submitted in response to an “INGSA-AFRICA SCIENCE ADVICE ARTICLES AND PROJECT CONCEPTS COMPETITION” Call.  

9. Adaptive research on “Designing a Blockchain-based Academic Certificate Authentication System for Higher Education Relevance and Quality Assurance (HERQA) Agency of Ethiopia”, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Grant Period 2019/20 academic year).