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LIU Accomplishments
Since the LIU established an office within the DPPA, they have completed livelihoods baseline training and fieldwork in SNNPR, Tigray, Amhara regions, and have begun the same process in Oromiya. All work is conducted in close collaboration with the DPPA direction, regional government staff, and with continual input from other key early warning stakeholders. A full complement of livelihood zone profiles and maps are available for the first three regions.
The accomplishments of the LIU to date are as follows:
- Livelihood zone surveys have been completed for SNNPR, Tigray and Amhara Regions, with a database, a livelihood zone map, and a written analytical Livelihood Profile for each zone. The same process has now begun in Oromiya Region.
- Direct technical support is being provided during the main ‘Meher’ and shorter ‘Belg’ seasonal assessments in the SNNP, Tigray, and Amhara Regions.
- Extensive training was provided for senior managers and early warning practitioners on using the baselines for hazard analysis.
- Baseline Analysis training/TOT workshops were held prior to the start of baseline work in Tigray and Amhara, to enable team leaders to provide more effective support to their teams.
- A simple monitoring system has been piloted in select districts (woredas) of SNNPR.
- More then 700 government staff and early warning practitioners in Ethiopia have received livelihoods based training of varying levels from the LIU to date.
- A certification system on using the HEA framework has been put in place, so that people successfully completing a given stage of training obtain internationally valid qualifications.
- The emphasis on training and capacity building is showing results with more and more trainings now being facilitated by national technicians and experts (LIU national consultants; federal DPPA & regional DPP&FS staff), in lieu of international consultants.
- The national technician and expert inputs are also being augmented by the LIU internship program, in which certified government staff (DPPA & regional DPP&FS staff) supply targeted assistance to all levels of field work (including mentoring and training), while building further capacity among DPPA and regional DPP&FS staff.
- Other organizations have had staff participating in LIU-supported trainings and fieldwork, including: USAID, FEWSNET, UNOCHA, WFP, UNICEF, FAO, ACF, Bahir Dar University, Amhara BoARD, ORDA, SC-UK, GOAL, World Vision, PCDP, REST.
- LIU newsletters have been develop and distributed to a wide audience within the Ethiopian emergency response community. Each newsletter has focused on a particular output of the HEA framework.
- A monitoring and evaluation tracker/database now enables the LIU to keep a comprehensive list of people trained.
- Work has begun on widening the LIU analysis to include non-food needs in collaboration with partners in the health sector and other spheres.
