Girmachew Addisu Lijalem has joined IRC Ethiopia team as a Monitoring and Learning Advisor and Local Facilitator for the Sustainable WASH Program (SWP). He has more than 14 years of experience as instructor at a university, as a hydrologist / engineer at Construction Enterprises, as researcher, as senior irrigation-drainage monitoring specialist and as resident project leader for IWRM projects at a Basin Authority. Girmachew has a B.Sc degree in soil and water engineering and M.Sc degree in Hydraulics engineering from Bahir Dar University.
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