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.
Leadership
Experienced direction, multidisciplinary delivery.
GRC mobilises specialist teams according to the technical, geographic, linguistic, and operational requirements of each assignment.
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Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Taglo Kassa
Dr. Taglo leads GRC’s multidisciplinary consulting model and quality-assurance approach across research, evaluation, data, and institutional assignments.
He works with a network of researchers, evaluators, data specialists, field coordinators, facilitators, and sector experts selected around the requirements of each assignment. This flexible structure allows GRC to combine strong technical leadership with appropriate local and thematic expertise.
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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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