HEALTH, PROTECTION & INCLUSION DEPARTMENT – TESFA Refugees with Disabilities Association

Department Overview

The Health, Protection & Inclusion Department promotes the health, safety, dignity, rights, and full inclusion of refugees with disabilities. It coordinates health and psychosocial support, protection services, referral mechanisms, awareness activities, and inclusive approaches to ensure refugees with disabilities can access essential services and participate meaningfully in their communities.

Department Lead: Head of Health, Protection & Inclusion

Lead Programme: Health & Protection

Sub-Programmes: Health & Rehabilitation, Gender, Child Protection & Inclusion

Supporting Departments

Main Responsibilities

Develop and implement TESFA’s health, protection, and inclusion programmes and strategies.
Coordinate access to appropriate health, mental health, psychosocial, and rehabilitation services.
Strengthen protection, safeguarding, and referral mechanisms for refugees with disabilities.
Promote the rights, dignity, safety, and inclusion of refugees with disabilities.
Identify protection and health needs through assessments, community engagement, and data collection.
Establish and strengthen partnerships with health facilities, government offices, humanitarian organizations, NGOs, and community-based structures.
Coordinate awareness and capacity-building activities on disability inclusion, mental health, protection, and safeguarding.
Ensure programmes are accessible, inclusive, gender-sensitive, and responsive to diverse needs.
Monitor departmental activities, outcomes, and quality of services and prepare reports.
Support resource mobilization, proposal development, and advocacy related to health, protection, and inclusion.

Professional Profile

Mr. Tsegazab Sedassa serves as the Head of Health, Protection & Inclusion Department of TESFA Refugees with Disabilities Association.

He is a mental health professional with a BSc in Psychiatry Nursing from Dilla University and an M.A in Project Planning and Management. His multidisciplinary academic background combines expertise in mental health and psychosocial care with project planning, strategic management, monitoring and evaluation, research, risk management, and organizational development.

Mr. Tsegazab has extensive professional experience in mental health care, psychosocial support, counselling, community-based interventions, protection, referral services, and awareness creation.

He has worked in hospital and educational settings, providing mental health assessments, counselling, psychosocial interventions, and support to individuals and communities with diverse needs. He has also collaborated with multidisciplinary teams, community structures, referral organizations, and other stakeholders to strengthen access to appropriate services.His professional training includes community-based mental health and psychosocial support, mhGAP, trauma and basic counselling, and support for survivors of gender-based violence. He also possesses strong skills in communication, teamwork, leadership, problem-solving, data analysis, and the use of digital and research tools.

In his role at TESFA, Mr. Tsegazab provides leadership in developing and implementing initiatives that promote the health, protection, dignity, rights, accessibility, participation, and inclusion of refugees with disabilities. He works to strengthen health and psychosocial support services, protection and referral mechanisms, community engagement, partnerships, and evidence-based programming.

With his combined background in clinical mental health, project management, protection, psychosocial support, and community-based services, Mr. Tsegazab contributes to TESFA’s broader mission of empowering refugees with disabilities and promoting their equal access to services, meaningful participation, independence, and sustainable inclusion in society.

Email: health@tesfa.com.et

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