Abiyot is a Senior researcher at Includovate with extensive experience in social assessments, policy reviews, and evaluations on gender and social inclusion, social protection, women’s empowerment, and migration. He has led major assignments including GESI analysis of Ethiopia’s Social Protection and School Feeding Programmes for WFP Ethiopia; Mercy Corps’ IFTIIN Project; the final evaluation of HORIZONT3000’s East Africa Programme; IDRC’s Day Care Centres Study in Ethiopia, and BRAC’s Policy Landscape Analysis in Ethiopia. He co-led Light for the World’s multi-country Outcome Evaluation of the Equitable, Sustainable Eye Care Project and contributed to evaluations such as UNICEF Maldives’ Social Protection Schemes, UNICEF Thailand’s Strategic Positioning and Partnership Evaluation, and ILO’s SINCE Programme in Ethiopia. His work also includes qualitative research for IWMI’s UN Joint Programme on Women’s Economic Empowerment; CARE/DFID’s Review of National Policy on Ethiopian Women. Across these roles, he has developed ethical protocols, designed tools, trained field teams, collected data, facilitated stakeholder engagement, and delivered high-quality reports that inform policy and programme design.