Dan Maxwell and Erin Lentz published their article, “How do information problems constrain anticipating, mitigating, and responding to crises?” in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 81, 15…
Dawit Abebe
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Dawit Abebe is a veterinarian with experience in community-based delivery systems, impact assessment and regional and national food security, livestock and pastoralism policy in the Horn of Africa.
He worked with the Feinstein International Center from 2006 to 2016 as a Research and Policy Specialist on the Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative program in Ethiopia, where he used impact assessments with government and NGO partners to influence policy reform. He was seconded into the Secretariat of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) where he provided policy support to the COMESA Regional Policy Framework for Food Security in Pastoralist Areas, under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
Prior to joining Feinstein, Dawit worked in the remote Afar region of Ethiopia with government and non-governmental organizations; he managed a project for Save the Children UK in South Sudan; and he managed programs for Veterinaires sans frontieres Belgium in the Turkana District of northwest Kenya.
Dawit has an M.Sc. in tropical animal health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, and a D.V.M. from Addis Ababa University.
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This study aimed to better understand changes in and perceptions of wealth and equality in four counties in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda.
New shocks (such as Covid-19) and persistent shocks (such as livestock and crop disease) caused rapid changes for young men and women in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda between 2019…
This briefing paper examines how various shocks affected youth in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda in 2020 and early 2021.
Multiple calls have been issued for better preparedness, early warning, and, above all, early action to prevent hunger and malnutrition, reduce the scale of food insecurity, improve resilience, and reduce…
This paper reviews real-time monitoring (RTM), how it fits into a humanitarian information system, how systems quickly adjusted toward RTM in 2020, and provides a series of case studies of RTM systems, their objectives, and their outcomes.
This briefing paper examines the ways in which young people take advantage of emerging livelihood opportunities and respond to shocks.
This briefing paper explores some of the major life events and social markers for young people in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda.
This paper analyzes and investigates young people’s interactions with savings and credit associations and how this contributed to livelihood strategies.
The nature of humanitarian crises has changed over the past two decades. These changes demand increased anticipatory humanitarian action and improved information to guide that action. The COVID 19 pandemic…
This report attempts to shed light on the integration process for the most recent wave of refugees in Thessaloniki.
This briefing paper examines changes to wedding rituals and the nature of marriages in the Bentiu Protection of Civilians site and adjacent areas of Rubkona and Bentiu towns.
This briefing paper explores the establishment and reconfiguration of informal livelihood groups and associations as a form of socioeconomic connectedness in Bentiu, South Sudan.
This briefing paper examines changes in social connectedness in the Bentiu Protection of Civilians site and surrounding town.
This paper synthesizes findings from four studies on youth migration and resilience in different urban contexts. This work emerges from a collaboration between Save the Children US (Save US) and…
This study examined the integration experiences of protected persons in Vienna, Austria who arrived as unaccompanied and accompanied asylum-seeking older minors.
This report presents findings on the experiences and aspirations of male and female youth as they interact with the economic and aid systems in the Karamoja sub-region of Uganda. This…
The humanitarian situation in Somalia is among the world’s most enduring current crises. As a result of conflict and a very weak central state, the country ran for two decades…
A study of the effectiveness of the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) system, used to identify famine and levels of food insecurity, in South Sudan.
Ce rapport examine le Cadre Harmonisé pour mieux comprendre les contraintes techniques et politiques à l’analyse des famines et des urgences extrêmes.
This report examines the Cadre Harmonisé in Nigeria to better understand the technical and political constrains to analyzing famines and extreme emergencies.
In partnership with Mercy Corps, Feinstein researchers undertook this work to understand why some households are managing the devastating impacts of war better than others.
This report investigates what money and financial transactions can reveal about the journeys and experiences of forced migration.
This paper synthesizes evidence appraisal practices to inform evidence syntheses in the Humanitarian Evidence Program. It is addressed to all audiences interested in humanitarian evidence, including but not limited to researchers,…