Dereje Abdena Bayisa

Deputy Head, Oromia Regional Health Bureah

Ethiopia Ministry of Health

Dereje has more than 25 years of work experience mainly in public sector and with closely working a range of international and local development partners. He provides guidance and leads multi-disciplinary team to design replicable, cost-effective, adaptive solutions that empower communities, especially married and unmarried adolescent girls to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes. He is the lead to embed and scale up smart start as part of the public health system under the Roadmap to Integrating Smart Start in Ethiopia (RISE) project.

Event Schedule

DAY 1

18 July 2023

Start Time	End Time	Session	Description	Action
06:30 pm EEST	08:00 pm EEST	Government Leadership and Accountability to Scale: Lessons from Ethiopia Side Event Kigali Marriott Hotel - Rubavu & Nyungwe & Akagera Rooms	It is imperative that the global development community move beyond boutique, unscalable program designs towards sustainable scale-up of promising interventions, Read More It is imperative that the global development community move beyond boutique, unscalable program designs towards sustainable scale-up of promising interventions, particularly through public sector leadership and accountability. This event will leverage the experience of the Ethiopian FMOH in leading the institutionalization and scale of an innovative ASRH intervention targeting married adolescent girls in Ethiopia, Smart Start, as a case study for the pursuit of sustainable scale-up. Representatives from the MOH, PSI Ethiopia, and BMGF will discuss their experience and lessons learned from this scale-up, asking the question what does government need to truly lead scale-up of promising SRH programming? Organizer: Population Services International (PSI) Read Less Speakers Dereje Duguma State Minister Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia Dereje Abdena Bayisa Deputy Head, Oromia Regional Health Bureah Ethiopia Ministry of Health Seyoum Atlie Director, Roadmap for Integrating Smart Start in Ethiopia (RISE) Population Services International (PSI) Ethiopia Ann Starrs Director of Family Planning Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Meseret Zelalem Director, Maternal Child Health and Nutrition Federal Ministry of Health Ethiopia