Andy worked for non-governmental organizations in the Horn of Africa for six years focusing on community-based relief and development programs in the Horn of Africa. He then joined the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1998, based in Nairobi, Kenya where he led a regional research program on the use of participatory epidemiology with pastoralist communities in Africa. He joined the Center in 2000 and via our program with the African Union’s Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, worked on regional and international-level policy and legislative reform to support community-based delivery systems in Africa. From 2005 Andy directed the Center’s new Africa Regional Office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he led national and regional programs to develop evidence-based approaches to policy reform with a focus on humanitarian and development policies and programming in pastoralist areas. From 2006 Andy also led the Center’s support to the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS), published in early 2009 and now a companion module to the Sphere handbook. He currently chairs the LEGS Steering Group. Andy’s other main interests include the use of participatory impact assessment for organizational learning and policy reform. Andy holds a Bachelor degree in Veterinary Medicine from the University of London, a Masters degree in Tropical Veterinary Science from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in epidemiology, also from the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and was made a European Specialist in Population Medicine in 2005, as a de facto Diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Public Health. He is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.
Email: andrew.catley@tufts.edu
Reports
Children in the pastoral areas of Somali Region Ethiopia are increasingly among the most nutritionally vulnerable populations in the world. In response to more frequent droughts and recurrent nutritional emergencies in the Region, the international community has tended to prioritize … Read More
Although pastoralists in Ethiopia are often characterized as unresponsive to market opportunities, the bulk of Ethiopia’s growing formal and informal livestock and meat exports are supplied from pastoralist areas of the country.
This was a follow on study to earlier regional analysis for the IGAD-FAO Livestock Policy Initiative that examined the benefits of livestock exports by pastoralist wealth group.
The project Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) is a three‐year project implemented by Mercy Corps and Save the Children UK (SCUK) in parts of Somali and Oromiya Regions in Ethiopia. The project aims to protect, build and diversify assets in food insecure households. The donor is the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the project budget is US$17 million.
The pastoralists of Shinile Zone in the Somali Region of Ethiopia experience multiple livelihoods challenges and various types of conflict.
Support to the export of pastoralist livestock from the Horn of Africa is often viewed by aid organizations as a key poverty reduction strategy. Drawing on existing literature and field research in Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan, this report examines if and how different wealth groups benefit from the export trade. It looks in detail at the household-level economic strategies of different pastoralist wealth groups and their marketing behaviors, and concludes that in terms of poverty reduction, poorer herders benefit least from livestock exports.
This report is the outcome of the first phase of Milk Matters. We find that the demand for and perceived benefit of animal milk for young children is high and that, when it is available, it makes a large contribution to the dietary intake of young children in study communities.
This literature review is one component of the first phase of the project. Broad themes investigated in the review include: The epidemiology and causes of malnutrition in children in pastoralist communities; including debate on how we measure malnutrition in these communities; The role of milk and milk products in the diets of pastoralists and the critical contribution it makes to improving dietary quality for women and young children; and key interventions that have aimed to improve access to human and animal milk in pastoralist regions and their impact on the nutritional status of children.
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Drawing upon this experience, this guide aims to provide practitioners with a broad framework for carrying out project level Participatory Impact Assessments (PIA) of livelihoods interventions in the humanitarian sector. Other than in some health, nutrition, and water interventions in which indicators of project performance should relate to international standards, for many interventions there are no ‘gold standards’ for measuring project impact.
Briefing Papers
The project Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets (RAIN) is a three‐year project implemented by Mercy Corps and Save the Children UK (SCUK) in parts of Somali and Oromiya Regions in Ethiopia. The project aims to protect, build and diversify assets in food insecure households. The donor is the Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the project budget is US$17 million.
Books
By Catley, A., Lind, J., and Scoones, I. (2013) Development at teh Margins. Pastoralism in the Horn of Africa. In: Catley, A., Lind, J. and Scoones, I. (eds.) Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins Routledge, Abingdon and New York
By D. Abebe, A. Catley, B. Admassu, and G. Bekele. (2009). In I. Scoones, J. Thomson, and R Chambers (eds.), Farmer First Revisited. Practical Action Publishing, 296-300
A Practical Guide to Improving Primary Veterinary Services. Catley, A., Blakeway, S. and Leyland, T. (eds.) (2002). ITDG Publishing, London. Also published in French by Karthala, Paris, 2004.
Book Chapters
By Catley, A. and Aklilu, Y. (2013). Moving Up or Moving Out? Commercialization, Growth and Destitution in Pastoralist Areas. In: Catley, A., Lind, J. and Scoones, I. (eds.), Pastoralism and Development in Africa: Dynamic Change at the Margins. Routledge, Abingdon and New York
By John Burns and Andrew Catley. In Alpaslan Özerdem and Richard Bowd (eds.), Participatory Research Methodologies: Development and Post-Disaster/Conflict Reconstruction, Ashgate, London. 2010.
By A. Catley. In I. Scoones, J. Thomson, and R Chambers (eds.), Farmer First Revisited. Practical Action Publishing (in press).
By D. Abebe, A. Catley, B. Admassu, and G. Bekele. (2009). In I. Scoones, J. Thomson, and R Chambers (eds.), Farmer First Revisited. Practical Action Publishing, 296-300
By A. Catley. In Commonwealth Ministers Reference Book 2008. Commonwealth Secretariat, London. 2008.
By A. Catley, T. Leyland and S. Bishop. In L. Alinovi, G. Hemrich and L. Russo (eds.), Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crises. Practical Action Publishing, Rugby. 2008.
By S. Bishop, A. Catley, and T. Leyland. In L. Alinovi, G. Hemrich and L. Russo (eds.), Beyond Relief: Food Security in Protracted Crises. Practical Action Publishing, Rugby. 2008.
By A. Catley. In Participatory Livestock Research: A Guide. ITDG Publishing, London. 2005.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
By Catley, A., Admassu, B., Bekele, G. and Abebe, D. (2013). Published in Disasters, in press. Contact the lead author andrew.catley@tufts.edu
By Andy Catley and Adrian Cullis (2012). Journal for Humanitarian Studies
By Catley, A., Alders, R.G., Wood, J.L.N. (2012).
The Veterinary Journal 191, 151-160
Sadler, K., Kerven, C., Calo, M., Manske, M. and Catley, A. (2010). Pastoralism 1(2), 291-324
By A. Catley, D. Abebe, B. Admassu, G. Bekele, B. Abera, G. Eshete, T. Rufael, T. Haile (2009). Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 33/4, 665-685
By M. Barasa, A. Catley, D. Machuchu, H. Laqua, E. Puot, D. Tap Kot, and D. Ikiror (2008). Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 55, 339-351
By D. Abebe, D, A. Cullis, A. Catley, Y. Aklilu, G. Mekonnen, and Y. Ghebrechirstos (2008). Disasters, 32/2 June 2008
By C. Watson and A. Catley (2008). Humanitarian Practice Network Paper 64, Overseas Development Institute, London.
By T. Rufael, A. Catley, A. Bogale, M. Sahle, and Y. Shiferaw (2008) Tropical Animal Health and Production 40/1, 29-38
By M. Mochabo, O.K. Kitala, P.M. Gathura, P.B. Ogara, W.O. Eregae, T.D. Kaitho, and A. Catley (2006). The Kenya Veterinarian 30 (1), 1-10
Other Major Publications
By A. Catley. 2005. African Union/Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources, Nairobi