Every year about thirty billion dollars are spent on aid across Africa, yet high levels of poverty, hunger, and destitution persist. The phenomenon of failing aid in Africa has been…
Abdelhafiz Elobied Mohamed Adam
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Abdelhafiz is a dynamic researcher/manager with a strong record in diverse areas of capacity development, research project management, organizational development, building partnerships, and facilitating team development.
Hafiz has worked regularly with Feinstein since 2010, supporting policy analysis, research, coordination, and training on projects in Sudan. This includes ongoing research and facilitation on projects related to resilience, and pastoralism in Sudan and regionally, with emphasis on food security, livelihoods, climate change, environment, trade, conflict, program strategies and policy directions.
He has also worked as a Lecturer with the Department of Forestry, College of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of Juba, and as National Coordinator for the Sudan National Discourse Forum where he implemented program activities and project management tools to ensure visibility of project activities, coordinated national and regional workshops, and facilitated research studies.
He has a M.Sc. in forest protection from the University of Khartoum.
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This desk study explores how state-owned policies and programs in pastoral areas of the Sudano-Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa meet pastoralists’ needs and priorities.
This report presents the final findings from the USAID Nawiri longitudinal study, which investigated the drivers of the persistently high rates of acute malnutrition from September 2021 to September 2023.
This learning brief examines the drivers of malnutrition in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties and their implications for policy and programs.
This desk study explores how pastoralists manage climate, conflict, and other stresses through indigenous early warning systems, preventive actions, local emergency responses, and customary safety nets.
This learning brief explores the continuity and changes to livelihoods in select sites in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, Kenya, and reviews the implications of the continuity and the changes on the drivers of child acute malnutrition.
This learning brief presents preliminary findings on strategic mobility and its nutritional benefits to pastoral and agropastoral communities in select sites in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties, Kenya.
This learning brief presents preliminary findings about the cause (drivers) of persistently high rates of child acute malnutrition in select sites in Isiolo and Marsabit Counties.
This is an evidence brief, accompanying the full systematic review on urban identification practices in humanitarian emergencies.
This systematic review represents the first ever attempt to systematically search, sort and synthesize the existing evidence in order to consolidate findings on the tools, methods and metrics used to identify and prioritize vulnerable people, households and communities, including those displaced within and to urban areas.
This report investigates the practice of pastoralism in Sudan. The authors delineate migration patterns and rationales as well as market strategies, and also offer recommendations for policymakers and service providers interacting with any community that includes pastoralists.
This protocol details the methodology for an evidence synthesis on urban humanitarian action. The evidence synthesis asks, “What are the practices to identify and prioritize populations affected by urban humanitarian…