Head, Policy, Partnership and Information Technology Bureau
Yilkal Tariku
paitb@psi.gov.et
+251 116 186 851
Policy Advocacy, Partnership & Information Technology Bureau
This is a special Bureau of the institute which has been given the following strategic roles and mandates:
- Organize debates and discussion forums on policy relevant issues to raise the awareness level of stakeholders;
- Take part in the preparation of policy documents of different research recommendations and presentation of the same for discussion with the concerned governmental bodies;
- In line with the mission of the institute, forge new partnerships with like-minded organizations and also enhance the on-going partnerships and;
- Gather, organize, process, update and provide researchers with various thematic data as input for further research analysis;
Teams
Policy Advocacy, Document Preparation & Research Partnership Team

Team Leader
Jemal Mohammed
padprp@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
This is one of the teams in the bureau. The team comprises two sub-teams: Policy advocacy and Document Preparation and Research Partnership. The duties and responsibilities of each are stated as follows.
Policy Advocacy and Document Preparation
The Policy Advocacy and Document Preparation sub-team mainly carries out the following activities.
- Developing operational guidelines for policy advocacy and document preparation activities on the basis of experiences gained from other countries;
- Facilitating and taking part in the preparation of research-based policy documents (e.g., policy briefs, policy notes and reports);
- Involving in the preparation of training manuals and documents relating to research-based policies and strategies;
- Facilitating the preparation and implementation of capacity building trainings relating to evidence-based policies and strategies set out nationally;
- Ensuring that the preparations of policy documents follow the standard set institutionally;
- Planning and organizing fora for policy debates and discussions;
- Disseminating the research and policy study outputs of the institute; and
- Ensuring stakeholders’ proper understanding of policy and strategy issues of the nation.
Research Partnership
The Research Partnership sub-team is responsible for carrying out the following activities.
- Creating enabling environment for the process of forging local and international partnership initiatives;
- Preparing draft partnership strategy document that serves to guide the establishment of partnerships with local as well as international organizations;
- Creating networks with partnership officials of selected local and international organizations;
- Ensuring that research partnerships created/established by different centers and divisions at PSI are in alignment with the principles and strategies of the institute ;
- Following up and ensuring that partnership activities are in order as per the (contractual) agreement made by partnering institutions;
- Building and strengthening strategic partnerships through active networking, advocacy and effective communication;
- Strengthening the establishment of research partnership for capacity building;
- Conducting research and analysis on donor and partners focus area and funding cycles processes;
- Conducting research related to partnering strategies and tools;
- Formulating documents that are useful for developing research partnership on the basis of experiences gained from other countries; and
- Maintaining up-to-date repository of all donors, funding cycles and engagement modalities.
Information Technology & Data Center Team

Team Leader
Amare Terefe Gashaye
itdct@psi.gov.et
+251115506066
The ITDC Team consists of two main sub-teams: Information Technology and Data Center. Broadly speaking, the team is highly responsible in handling all services related to information technology and research data management in PSI.
The Information Technology sub-team mainly carries out the following activities.
- Making continuous follow up and execution of IT infrastructure development of the institute in order to support the research activities;
- Studying and establishing the implementation of new IT application software and services that are vital for the research duties of the institute;
- Assuring the accessibility of research inputs and outputs using the institute's database and website;
- Upgrading the IT awareness of the institute's community;
- Reducing security alerts to the research and study information of the institute;
- Inducing IT usage policies and formalities within the institute; and
- Providing an overall IT support services (e.g., network, maintenance).
The Data Center sub-team mainly involves in the following activities.
- Identifying data management problems and seek for possible solutions ;
- In relation with data management, identifying main obstacles and make them ready for further investigation;
- Establishing standardized database system;
- Updating, controlling and sharing data using the constructed database system;
- Leading and preparing survey data collection and assuring data quality control;
- Preparing and putting into action different data management policies and practices;
- Conducting different data cleaning and analyses and making available to researchers;
- Conducting and customizing both national and international best practices regarding data science and data management;
- Collecting, organizing and disseminating data for all users;
- Preparing and delivering different capacity building trainings in relation with data and data management; and
- Delivering all rounded data-related support and continual control.