Tufts – Feinstein International Center

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.