Generate evidence that improves decisions and strengthens institutions.
We deliver high-quality research, evaluation, organisational, and capacity-development services that respond to client priorities and wider societal needs.
About GRC
Researching today for a better future.
Gesem Research and Consulting PLC is an Ethiopian research and advisory firm committed to evidence that improves programmes, institutions, and public decisions.
Gesem
Our name reflects the future—an expression of our belief that better tomorrows begin with responsible choices today.
Our story
A multidisciplinary firm built around credible evidence and useful solutions.
GRC was established to respond to a clear need: institutions require technically rigorous research and evaluation, but they also need findings that are understandable, practical, and responsive to local realities.
Our work brings together expertise in research design, monitoring and evaluation, data management, field operations, organisational development, facilitation, and report development. We collaborate with clients throughout the assignment so that methods remain relevant, evidence remains trustworthy, and recommendations remain implementable.
Independent professional judgement
Respectful and inclusive engagement
Transparent quality assurance
Practical communication of findings
Your tomorrow
begins with the evidence and choices made today.
Purpose and direction
What guides our work.
Become a trusted African partner for evidence, learning, and institutional development.
We aspire to contribute to more effective policies, accountable programmes, capable organisations, and resilient communities.
Integrity, rigour, respect, usefulness, collaboration, and continuous learning.
These values shape how we design assignments, engage participants, interpret findings, and communicate with clients.
Professional commitments
Quality is a process, not a final edit.
We build quality assurance, ethics, inclusion, and learning into each stage of the assignment.
Integrity and independence
Findings are based on available evidence, transparently interpreted, and clearly separated from assumptions.
Do no harm and ethical practice
Methods are designed to protect participants, respect informed consent, and minimise social, safeguarding, and data risks.
Inclusion and contextual sensitivity
We consider gender, age, disability, language, conflict dynamics, and unequal access throughout design and analysis.
Use-oriented communication
Reports, briefs, presentations, and recommendations are structured around the needs of decision-makers and programme teams.
Core delivery leadership
Named accountability for the Ethiopia workstream.
GRC combines a named core leadership team with a wider consultant and field network mobilised around the technical, geographic and linguistic requirements of each assignment.
Dr. Taglo Kassa
PhD, Applied Social Psychology • 15+ years of research and consulting experience
Leads GRC’s Ethiopia workstreams, research and evaluation design, client coordination, technical oversight, mixed-method interpretation and final quality assurance.
Mr. Umer Yasin
MSc, Project Management • BSc, Statistics • Certified International Project Manager
Leads field mobilisation, survey operations, team coordination and implementation planning, with strong experience in large-scale research, statistics and project delivery.
Dr. Mihret Seyoum
PhD, African Studies • MA, Gender Studies • 15+ years of technical and advisory experience
Oversees data-quality review and inclusion-sensitive evidence processes, bringing expertise in mixed-method research, gender analysis, social inclusion and programme advisory work.
Dr. Abebaw Mezgebu
PhD, Epidemiology • MPH, Nutrition • 23+ years of professional experience
Leads qualitative inquiry and supports complex health, nutrition and humanitarian research, including stakeholder interviews, field coordination, thematic analysis and technical interpretation.
Detailed CVs and assignment-specific team structures are available to qualified partners at proposal stage and during due diligence.
How our team is organised
The right expertise for each assignment.
GRC forms fit-for-purpose teams, combining core leadership with specialised professionals and field capacity.
Technical leadership
Senior oversight of methodology, quality, ethics, analysis, and client communication.
Subject specialists
Sector and thematic experts aligned to the intervention, institution, and evaluation questions.
Data and analysis
Quantitative, qualitative, digital-data, statistical, and reporting expertise.
Field operations
Locally grounded enumerators, supervisors, facilitators, translators, and coordinators.
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