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LIU
The goal of the LIU is to build the technical capacity of national and regional level government staff in the application of livelihoods and coping strategies information in early warning, based on the Household Economy Analysis framework (HEA). The LIU is developing training materials; conducting trainings; establishing a nation-wide comparable set of regional livelihoods baselines; integrating these baselines into the existing early warning system; and gaining general agreement around national standards for livelihoods-based early warning and emergency food and non-food assessment. The LIU is also integrating the equivalent livelihoods baselines undertaken in major pastoral areas by SCUK with the regional governments of Somali and Afar Regions. Click here to view LIU accomplishments to date.
The LIU follows on from a USAID-funded pilot project in 2004-05, led by FEG through FEWS NET and partnered with the Ethiopian Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency’s famine Early Warning System (DPPA EWS). In this project, Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Region (SNNPR) - a complex and varied area with some 15 million people – was treated to a full livelihoods zoning and baseline survey program. The methods for integrating this with the national early warning system, and especially with its regular seasonal assessments, were worked out as part of the package.
Most recently, considerable effort has been made to introduce the HEA framework and data outputs to a wider audience to encourage a greater understanding and use of both the baseline profiles, database, and livelihoods impact analysis tools. The LIU is also looking at other ways of packaging HEA data to increase its accessibility.
