BDS Center for Development Research Company Profile

3BDS-CDR Company Profile
TableofContent
A message from the Managing Director..2
Introduction..4
Organizational Structure..7
Vision..8
Core Values..9
Working Strategy..10
BDS-CDR’s understanding of..11
“Development”
Areas of Strength Exellence..12
15..Major project studies and trainings
completed by BDS-CDR
19..Clients Served by BDS-CDR
20..What have our clients said
about our services?
26..Seven reasons for choosing
BDS-CDR for your
consultancy services
28..Our address
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4 BDS-CDR Company Profile
B
DS-Center for Development Re-
search is becoming one of the fore-
runners in the area of development
research and multi-disciplinary
consultancy service. We are striving to keep the
public informed with our research findings be-
lieving that these works will help expedite the
development efforts of our nation.
BDS-CDR’s currently strong state is the out-
come of long years of professionalism and
commitment of its staffs, past and present.
Today our firm is on a solid springboard from
which it can sprint much further. Needless to
say. recent partnerships with our esteemed in-
ternational consulting groups based in the USA
and UK will add a momentum to the promi-
nence of our services. I believe that if we con-
tinue to work together, we can excel in our ef-
forts together. Therefore, I welcome you all to
work with us and taste the fruits of our com-
mon successes.
Our consulting practice involves using home-
based and associate professionals’ knowledge
and experience, as well as their analytical and
problem-solving skills, to add value into a wide
variety of governmental and non-governmen-
tal organizations within a framework of ap-
propriate and relevant professional standards,
discipline and ethics. Above all, putting our
resources altogether, we always strive to satisfy
our customers with our fair treatment and pro-
vision of services to the utmost standards.
Besides, BDS-CDR requires all staff, associate
staff, consultants and researchers, etc engaged
in research and/or consultancy activities to
maintain the highest standards of rigor and in-
AmessagefromtheManaging

tegrity in the conduct of their activities. By so
doing, we proudly deliver quality services that
satisfy the interest of our customers.
Therefore, I am honored to
express my gratitude to those
who have been working with
us. I also would like to extend
my invitation to all national,
international, governmental
and non-governmental orga-
nizations to work with us and
contribute their share to the
success of the development
endeavors of our country.
Thank you.
Daniel Melese
Managing Director
We are striving to keep the
public informed with our
research findings believing
that these works will help
expedite the development
efforts of our nation.
Director
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B
DS Center for Development Research (BDS-
CDR) is a private consulting firm contributing
its share to the enhancement of the multifacet-
ed efforts of the Ethiopian government and its
national and international partners to develop
Ethiopia. It was founded in 2008 by a group of
Ethiopian professionals and their associates with rich experience in
university teaching and practical research. Since then, BDS-CDR
has been actively engaged in providing professional consultancy
services in the area of development to numerous national and in-
ternational clients.
Since its establishment, BDS-CDR has successfully completed over
23 major study and training projects to the full satisfaction of its
clients. As a result, it has earned the trust of Ethiopian government
ministries like the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture,
Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Ministry of Ur-
ban Development and Construction, Ministry of Federal Affairs
and major international organizations like UNICEF, UNDP, WFP,
the World Bank, JICA, among many others.
In addition to the already completed projects indicated above,
BDS-CDR has 8 major study projects currently in full progress,
sponsored by: the Ministry of Federal Affairs, Ministry of Finance
and Economic Development, Ministry of Education, the Devel-
opment Bank of Ethiopia, Central Statistics Agency and Horn of
Africa Regional Environment Center and Network, Addis Ababa
University.
During the six years of its fruitful consultancy, BDS-CDR has con-
tributed its share to the development of research and to its practi-
cal application in the solution of social problems. It is pleased to be
so actively engaged in serving institutions of constructive change
and in contributing its share to the development of our country,
our region and beyond.
Introduction

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8 BDS-CDR Company ProfileBDS-CDR Staff members

Managing Director
Deputy Managing
Director
Training Officers
Web Administrator
Planning &
Marketing Division
Language Editor
Data ManagerResearch Officers Project Officers
Project Management
Division
Research
Department
Marketing
Officers
Survey Division
Admin Assistant
Purchaser/
Logistic
Store Keeper
Office Assistant
Administration &
Finance Division
Accountant
Organizational StructureBDS-CDR is structurally organized in a manner that is designed to provide optimal support to its operations. It has five major
programmed divisions with appropriate subdivisions guided by competent personnel.
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Mission
Our mission is contributing
our share to development and
going global.
Vision
BDS-CDR’s long term vision
is to build a strong and ex-
panded research and training
institution of high interna-
tional standard.

CoreValuesThe core values that guide BDS-CDR in its day-to-day activities are:
Professionalism
Independence
Credibility
Integrity
Teamwork
Inspiring leadership
Accountability
Transparency
Responsibility
Knowledge-sharing
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WorkingstrategyBDS-CDR has adopted the following set of principles as core values of
its working strategy.
Making progress step by step and learning from collective
experience.
Collaborating with relevant government departments, the
private sector and civil society organizations.
Adopting an interdisciplinary approach to research and net-
working with scholars coming from different disciplines.
Keeping pace with the fast-growing digital technologies to
promote knowledge accumulation and utilization.
Operating at the frontiers of knowledge using appropriate,
efficient and reliable research techniques and approaches.
Effectively utilizing the untapped experience of highly qual-
ified veteran scholars while at the same time building the ca-
pacity of young researchers.

BDS-CDR’sunderstandingof
“development”
A
t BDS-CDR, our understanding of “development” goes beyond what
is conventionally held. We hold that real development is holistic. Mate-
rial development alone is not enough to improve the quality of man’s
life. Holistic development endeavors to address the whole of man and
his environment, i.e. to enrich the quality of the material, mental and spiritual as-
pects of his life in a comprehensive manner.
Development is progressive and cumulative and provides the next generation better
opportunities for greater development. Any development that comes about at the
expense of the wellbeing and further development of the next generation cannot
be full and lasting.
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BDS-CDRareasof
ExellenceBDS-CDR has become a seasoned consultancy firm with rich experience in providing quality services in various areas of development.
The major areas of development in which it has built considerable experience and acquired special and proven strength are:
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Data Gathering and Processing
• Education,
• Health and Nutrition,
• Agriculture and Food Security,
• Capacity Building,
• Urban Development,
• Regional Integration,
• Landscape Management.

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n the process of building its strength in these areas, BDS-CDR has managed to build a rich and dependable pool of leading
professional researchers, supervisors, data processors and enumerators that can be mobilized at short notice to successfully un-
dertake a wide range of project studies and trainings. This ability to put together a professional taskforce appropriate for given
projects and to deliver quality service on time gives BDS-CDR the state of mind with which to engage in its assignments with
firm and full confidence. Furthermore, its engagement in the numerous study projects that it has carried out has enabled it to
crisscross the expanse of Ethiopia, thus enabling it to have a good picture of the social and geographic features of the country.
Management Capacity
BDS-CDR is an efficiently managed firm. Its overall operation is supervised
by a Board of Directors. Its day-to-day management of the work at the head
office and in the fields is carried out by a team of professionals headed by a
highly qualified economist with a rich experience in working in several inter-
national organizations.
Because of its competent management capacity, BDS-CDR produces qual-
ity results on study projects and trainings and delivers them on time. These
qualities have earned our firm the trust and confidence of our national and
international clients. This trust and confidence has, in turn, resulted in our
being able to win successive consulting assignments from our major national
and international clients.
Human Resource
The BDS-CDR human resource is a carefully com-
bined force of 14 fulltime experts and more than
20 seasoned associates specialized in major research
and training in the areas of monitoring and eval-
uation, data gathering process, educational policy
analysis, capacity building, urban development,
agricultural economics, industrial economics, envi-
ronmental economics, health, pastoral community
development, fiscal analysis, international trade,
regional integration, food security, baseline survey
and research design and analysis.
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BDS-CDR Track Record
Since its establishment in 2008, BDS-CDR has been actively
engaged in providing professional services in project studies
and trainings to numerous clients. To date, it has successful-
ly conducted and delivered a total of 23 works consisting 18
study projects and 5 trainings. Currently, it is in the process of
conducting 10 major study projects. Thus, BDS-CDR has con-
ducted and is in the process of conducting a total of 33 major
studies and trainings, and has served or is serving a total of 18
national and international clients. We feel that this is quite an
achievement of which we are proud. With such a track record,
we are confident and determined to do ever better and ever
more.
Financial capacity
Just as it has demonstrated a proven strength in its capacity in re-
search, BDS-CDR has equally shown a steady growth in its financial
performance throughout its six years. During this period, the com-
pany has shown an average financial growth of 30 percent per year.
One of the indicators of a successful firm is the quality of man-
agement of its finance. We, at BDS-CDR, have paid the utmost at-
tention to the quality management of our financial matters. BDS-
CDR has a well developed standard of book-keeping, meticulously
following the generally accepted accounting principles and applies
a double-entry accounting system using Peachtree. BDS-CDR has
duly paid all its taxes and other payments and is free of any kind of
credit from any institution.

1. Baseline Survey of UNICEF-Supported Basic Education
Programme in Ethiopia with an Evaluative Approach
2. Rapid Assessment of School Grant Programme (SGP-2009)
3. School Grant Annual Review –2010-2011
4. Evaluation of Capacity Building Project in Remote Zones in
SNNPR with Teams of NUNV Experts
5. Evaluation of the UNICEF/MOWCYA Adolescent/Youth
Development Programme (2007-2011)
6. Baseline Survey for Integrated Urban Database Project
(IUDP)
7. Situational Assessment for the Introduction of Weather In-
dexed Insurance in the Oromiya Region
Majorprojectstudiesand
trainings
completedby
BDS-CDR
Major study projects
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8. Survey on Rural Situation for Gode Zone, the Ethiopian So-
mali Region
9. Refugee Baseline Survey for World Food Programme ( WFP)
10. Agricultural Growth Programme Survey and Establishing
of Baseline Data for Impact Evaluation
11. Information Meeting on the Enhanced Outreach Strate-
gy/Community Health Days(EOS/CHD) and Increased
Supervision of the Screening Quality in Ethiopia
12. The Implication of Joining COMESA-EAC-SADC Tri-
partite FTA in the Ethiopian Economy
13. End-Term Evaluation of Shebedino Food Security
Project of Shebedino Programme Unit in SNNPR
14. Long-Term Arrangement to Monitor and Implement
Strategies to Improve the quality of the Management of
Severe/Acute Malnutrition in all Regions of Ethiopia
15. The Development of Content-Specific and Pedagogical
Standards for Subject Teachers
16.End-line Survey of the Project for Improving Maternal
and Child Nutrition Status (COBANA) in the Oromiya
Region
17. Baseline Survey for Sustainable Development of the
Gambella-Omo and Rift Valley Landscapes
18. Preparation of Implementation Completion and Result
Report on PCDP II

1. Provision
of Project
Cycle Manage-
ment Training
2. Strategic
Planning
and Manage-
ment (SPM)
3. Financial
Manage-
ment and
Control
4. Provision
of Training
of Trainers on
Supply Chain
5. Training
on Weather
Insurance
T r a i n i n g s
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Major Project Studies
in progress
1.Overall Education Data Quality Assessment
2.School Facility Survey
3.Ethiopia Flagship Study, “Innovation In Delivery Of
Better Basic Services; Challenges And Opportunities For
Ethiopia” – Component I – Data Collection And Organization
4.Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for RUFIP
–PHASE II
5.Revenue Generation Strategy For Developing Regional
States In Ethiopia( For Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz, and
Gambella Regions)
6.Conducting Africa RISING Ethiopian Highlands House-
hold and Community Surveys
7.Conducting Baseline Data Collection USAID Ethiopia
Land Administration to Nurture Development (LAND)
Impact Evaluation (IE).
8.Capacity Assessment for Private Sector Development in
Ethiopia
9. Impact Evaluation of the African Development Bank Sup-
ported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Program
(RWSSP) in Ethiopia
10. Baseline Survey on Current KAP Regarding Peace
Building, Social Cohesion, and Resilience in Afar, Ben-
ishangul- Gumuz, Gambella and Somali Regions

1. The Ministry of Education
2. The Ministry of Urban Devel-
opment and Construction
3. The Ministry of Agriculture
4. The Ministry of Trade
5. The Ministry of Federal Affairs
6. The Ministry of Finance and
Economic Development
7. Central Statistics Authority
8. The Development Bank of
Ethiopia
9. UNICEF-Ethiopia
ClientsservedbyBDS-CDRFollowing is a list of our esteemed clients to which BDS-CDR has successfully provided and is still
providing its professional services.

10. The World Bank
11. World Food Programme
12. Japan International Coop-
eration Agency (JICA)
13. Oxford University
14. Addis Ababa University
15. International Food Policy
Research Institute (IFPRI)
16.Pro Development Pro-
gramme
17. Plan International
18. Sanyu Consultants Inc.
19. African Development Bank,
20.Ethiopian Development Re-
search Institute (EDRI)
Whathaveourclients

The Following are extractions taken from officially signed and sealed
recommendation letters from our clients regarding our services.
B
DS-Center for Development Research (BDS-CDR)
has worked at the Ministry of Education for 4 months
for the project entitled: “Rapid School Grant Assess-
ment 2009”. …’, BDS-CDR is creative and resource-
ful, and we have benefited greatly from its evalua-
tion recommendations. It has handled a full range of
responsibilities including preparing inception report, undertaking
field data collection, preparing draft and final reports and validation
workshop…
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saidaboutBDS-CDR?

We recommend BDS-CDR, without any reservation, to any organization looking for consultation ser-
vices in the area of education. We will be happy to provide any further information about the perfor-
mance of BDS-CDR, if requested.
Sincerely,
(Illegible signature)
Solomon Shiferaw Bogale
Director, EMIS, Planning and Resource
Mobilization Directorate
Ministry of Education
T
his is to acknowledge that BDS Center for Development Research (BDS-CDR) has provided
our Ministry a professional service in the form of: “Baseline Survey for Integrated Urban Da-
tabase Project (IUDP.).
We wish to state that we are fully satisfied by the quality of the professional service provided“

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by BDS-CDR in the above study and are pleased to highly recommend
it to organizations that wish to make use of its professional service on
similar studies.
Sincerely,
Yitbarek Mengiste
Head, Policy and Programme Bureau
Ministry of Urban Development and Construction
T
his is to confirm that BDS-Center for Development Research
(BDS-CDR) …has been contracted for 10 months for under-
taking a study entitled: “Baseline Survey of UNICEF-Supported
Basic Education Programme in Ethiopia with an Evaluative Ap-
proach”—2010/11….

BDS—Center for Development Research was found to be dependable and professional. The team members
assigned for the survey were qualified professionals with long experiences in the education sector. The study
report was of acceptable standard and submitted within the given time frame. BDS Center for Development
Research is recommended for similar consultancy work.
Sincerely yours,
Sibeso Luswata
Chief Education
UNICEF – Ethiopia
B
DS Center for Development Research has provided consultancy services to the Ministry of Edu-
cation for 4 months for the project entitled: “School Grant Annual Review 2010/201”… Especially,
the study enhanced our understanding of the implementation status of the School Grant Pro-
gramme (SGP) consistent with the School Grant Guidelines and identified difficulties/constraints
in its implementation that may help to improve its impact…“

On our part, we have no hesitation to recommend BDS-CDR to any organization looking for consultancy
services in the area of Education.
Sincerely,
Solomon Shiferaw Bogale
Director, EMIS, Planning and Resource
Mobilization Directorate
The Ministry of Education
T
his is to certify that BDS Center for Development Research has carried out Refugee Baseline and
Post-Distribution Survey in 2012.
The company has successfully carried out the survey as per the United Nations World Food Programme
(UNWFP) quality standard, terms and conditions stipulated in the service contract.
Sincerely yours
Pascal JOANNES
Deputy Country Director
UNWFP
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goodreasonsforchoosingBDS-CDR
1. We are efficient: We produce the maximum desired result with
the minimum cost. We are efficient at home as we are in the field. We
are efficient at home because we have competent, dynamic and dedicated
staffs that carry out their day-to-day activities meticulously. We are effi-
cient in the field because we deploy qualified and experienced researchers
who know what they are doing.
2. We are committed to quality: No compromise with quality at
BDS-CDR! The way we repay our clients for the trust they place
upon us is by delivering to them a work of quality.
3. We are punctual: Not only do we do quality work but we also
deliver our works on time.

4. We have broad experience: Although we are a young
company, we have carried out extensive research and training
in the core areas of development.. Our involvement in such areas
has enabled us to gather and analyze enormous baseline, mid-line
and end-line data, to engage in monitoring and evaluation and to
offer useful recommendation to our clients. Our engagement in
diversified projects throughout the country has enriched our re-
search experience that enables us to deliver quality product.
5. We have a rich pool of human resource: In addition to
the dedicated, full time professional staff at the head office,
we have a remarkable assemblage of professional associates in var-
ious fields of expertise, who can be mobilized for research and
training tasks at a short notice.
6. We are up-to-date in our digital technology of research:
In addition to a rich human resource, we have the appropriate
technological tools required for carrying out sound research.
7. We are concerned stakeholders: As a national company,
we have a stake in the qualitative success of each project we
undertake. For us, being involved in research is far more than being
just a business. It is our society that benefits from each successful
research project. We strive for high quality in our endeavors not
only to meet the high expectations of our clients but also to be
proud of a job well done and to satisfy our own sense of patrio-
tism as citizens.
foryourconsultancyservices
BDS

Our Address
Addis Ababa.
Bole Sub-City, Wereda 17, Kebele 12/13
CMC Road, Gurd Shola Area
AHF International Building
First Floor, Office No. 102
Telephone: +251 011 6 47 95 17
011 6 47 81 29
Mobile: +251 0930 09 84 16
Fax: +251-(0)11-6479778
E-mail: bdscdr@bdscdr.com
For further information about our firm, please visit our
website: http://www.bdscdr.com
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