Isaac B. Bekalo, President
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Born in Ethiopia, Isaac has twenty five years of practical experience in community and organizational development, management and leadership. As President of IIRR, Isaac takes a lead role in strategy formulation, organizational diagnoses and restructuring, strategic management, business plan development and monitoring and evaluation.
Isaac’s academic qualifications include a Doctoral degree in Organizational Development and Planning. While pursuing his doctoral studies, Isaac worked as a part-time lecturer in the school of Public Health and as the Coordinator of Graduate Research Programs in the Philippines.
Isaac joined IIRR in September 1989 as the Africa Regional Director and was appointed its 6th President in January 2009. Isaac built IIRR’s Africa Regional Center from scratch by mobilizing resources, building strong teams and establishing a presence in four East African countries.
Isaac has successfully co-created, adapted and replicated a participatory knowledge-management and documentation system known as the Writeshop to the extent that it is now being used by numerous international organizations that wish to document, publish and disseminate best practices. Isaac has facilitated and co-authored several leading publications as a result of the writeshop process and has trained hundreds of senior and middle level mangers and technical specialists to do the same.
