Melkamu Dessalegn


Melkamu Dessalegn

Information Management Officer - OCHA


Melekamu is currently an Information Management Officer at iMMAP, seconded to OCHA in Dire-Dawa, Ethiopia.

He is experienced in the field of spatial & non-spatial data processing, planning and monitoring & evaluation of programs. Prior to this position, he was an Education in Emergency Officer (EiE) at the refugee camp level for Plan International Ethiopia (PIE), based in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State. Moreover, he worked for about eleven years for Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State Education Bureau in the capacity of Statistician and Head of the EMIS, Planning, and Resource Mobilization Department.

Melkamu holds an MSc degree in GIS and Remote Sensing from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia.