Andrew is the President of The Kaizen Company, where he has led efforts in international development for over two decades. His leadership spans projects across sectors including capacity development, civic engagement, and economic development. With extensive experience managing USAID-funded initiatives globally, Andrew previously held roles at Chemonics International.

Topic: AI for Better KM and Decision-Making in Ethiopia

USAID/Ethiopia is one of USAID’s largest and most dynamic Missions, managing over $1b

in funding per year to address complex development and humanitarian challenges. In this

session, Kaizen and IBM leadership will share experiences from their USAID-funded Learning Analytics Activity (LAA), discussing the process they led for collaboratively co- designing and co-creating AI solutions to increase USAID’s reach and impact.

Our initial area of focus is supporting the Mission to leverage AI to extract greater value

from USAID Ethiopia’s 25 existing Knowledge Management (KM) systems. We will discuss

eRorts to apply AI to reduce administrative burdens, improve decision-making, enhance

collaboration, and amplify the impact of development programming.