Box 1 Recent Assessments
• Coordinated and led HEA baseline assessment for a
• LIU
• MLVP
• Cambodia
• Led a HEA livelihood baseline assessment in Gaza and Inhambane Provinces, Mozambique, in March 2002, as part of the FEWS-Net Mozambique Integrated Information Network for Decision-Making (MIND) Project.
• Carried out a baseline food economy assessment in an intensive mixed-farming economy of southern Ethiopia for Christian-Aid UK in January/February 2002. Strengthened local partner (Action for Development/AFD) capacity for monitoring project impacts using the food economy approach.
• Provided technical support to the initial set-up of the WFP Technical Support Unit (TSU) in Sierra Leone , followed by food economy field training for TSU staff (May and June 2001), and the implementation of a national food security assessment in November-December 2001.
• Led four district teams on the Kenya short rains food security assessment in November-December 2001 to project relief needs for 2002 for the Kenya Food Security Steering Group, funded by DFID.
• Led an assessment in May-June 2001 for FEWS-Net in Zimbabwe to establish a baseline urban vulnerability profile and set up a food security monitoring system in Harare.
• Conducted a food security study of Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh in May 2001.
• Provided ongoing assessment and technical support to WFP in the Balkans (Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro) from May 1999 to March 2001.
• Worked with CARE International on the development of their Emergency Livelihood Security Assessment (ELSA) approach, with field work undertaken in Garissa District, Kenya, in January-February 2001.
• Assessed food aid needs and devised targeting strategies to reach needy households in drought-affected Khatlon Region, Tajikistan, on behalf of WFP in November-December 2000.
• Undertook a rapid food security assessment of flood-affected Govuru and Mabote Districts in Mozambique in September-October 2000 for SCF-UK, to inform future interventions.
• Conducted a field-based food economy study of an agro-pastoralist economy in southern Ethiopia for
