Lewam Abebe specializes in overseeing the technical integrity and implementation quality of water, sanitation, and infrastructure projects. His work includes conducting design reviews, supervising construction sites, verifying materials, reviewing shop drawings, and ensuring compliance with environmental and engineering standards.

He mentors engineering teams and ensures proper project documentation, including operation and maintenance manuals and as-built records. Lewam works in close coordination with regional bureaus and government institutions to strengthen ownership, sustainability, and accountability in project implementation. He also facilitates high-level approvals, reporting processes, and inter-ministerial coordination.

Lewam has contributed significantly to monitoring, performance reporting, and evaluation frameworks for WASH programs. He led the development of School WASH design manuals, guidelines, strategies, and training tools, and has supported regional offices in WASH implementation, monitoring, and reporting. His experience also includes proposal appraisal, annual planning, budgeting, and capacity building, as well as documenting and scaling best practices from international WASH programs.

Previously, Lewam served as a Lead Engineer and Contract Administration Engineer with the Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation from July 2010 to December 2017. In this role, he prepared engineering designs, construction drawings, schedules, and quantity takeoff sheets, and led contract administration, claims management, variation analysis, and progress reporting.

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