Our capacity

WAAS International is your ideal partner due to the solid experience we have working with organizations in all sectors and development partners such as the UN, The World Bank, IFC, WHO, USAID, IRI, ORB, State Department, UNICEF, RTI and local Governments in African countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, among others.

Through our work with these agencies, we have gained valuable insight across all aspects from country management to sector management, as well as corporate functions. These interactions have informed our understanding how best to conduct and implement research studies.

Where we have partners together with our full-time staff of 35 research specialists supported by more than 300 fully trained, quality controlled, vetted and committed field interviewers place us in a unique position. The depth and breadth of our intellectual capacity, local knowledge backed by international expertise and ‘on the ground’ capability enables us to provide a complete and comprehensive research and fieldwork service across Ethiopia.

Our Field & Tab is well experienced in survey management, data collection and delivery of specialists which is composed of field coordinators, managers, supervisors, and enumerators who have executed different opinion polling and governance related projects in Ethiopia.

We are also affiliated to local and global professional bodies:

    • Exclusive affiliate of Gallup International Association in Ethiopia
    • Member of Gallup Inc.
    • Member of ESOMAR, (European Society for Opinion and Marketing Research)

Member of Pan Africa Media Research Organization (PAMRO)