Dr. 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 in the remote Afar region of Ethiopia for six years with government and non governmental organizations before moving to South Sudan, where he managed a project from Save the Children UK. He then lived and worked for two years in the Turkana District of northwest Kenya, managing programs for Veterinaires sans frontieres Belgium. He joined the Feinstein International Center in early 2006 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.
Since late 2006 Dr. Abebe has been seconded into the Secretariat of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) where he provides policy support to the COMESA Regional Policy Framework for Food Security in Pastoralist Areas, under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Dr. Abebe has an MSc in Tropical Animal Health from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, and a DVM from Addis Ababa University.
E-mail: Dawit.Abebe@tufts.edu
Reports
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.
Books
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
Book Chapters
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
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 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 D. Abebe, D, A. Cullis, A. Catley, Y. Aklilu, G. Mekonnen, and Y. Ghebrechirstos (2008). Disasters, 32/2 June 2008
Other Major Publications
By D. Abebe. 2005. Save the Children US, Addis Ababa.
By D. Abebe. 2005. Paper presented at the international symposium The Role of Livestock in Poverty Reduction, Brussels, TROPICULTURA, Special Edition, ISSN-0771-3312, pp 5-10.