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PACAPS
FEG Consulting experts have experience extending back 35 years of working with pastoralist economies and complex livelihood systems in arid regions of Africa, and notably in the Horn. They have nurtured strong technical and institutional links to many agencies and Early Warning government departments in the region, including FEWS NET, The Food Security Analysis Unit for Somalia (FSAU), the Livestock Early Warning System (LEWS), the Ethiopian Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA), Save The Children-UK, Oxfam GB, the International Committee of the Red Cross, CARE, and Christian Aid. Under the PACAPS/FIC consortium, FEG is taking advantage of these partnerships in the Greater Horn to promote the shift toward a more holistic, livelihoods-based early warning and response capacity across the region.
FEG’s vision is for HEA livelihoods analysis to provide the bridge
between early warning, pastoralist programming (including conflict
mitigation and livestock trade initiatives) and policy support – the
main technical components of PACAPS.
By setting up the capacity to employ HEA livelihoods analysis, FEG will achieve three main goals of PACAPS:
- to enhance Early Warning analysis and Early Response planning by addressing the livelihood impacts of hazards
- to improve shorter term response by showing the livelihood outcome of actual interventions and by predicting the outcome of alternative interventions
- to improve longer-term policy on pastoralism by using field evaluations as evidence of what level of input and what type of intervention has the greatest livelihood impacts.
The HEA livelihoods framework requires a customized base of information and livelihoods analysis to manage the information. FEG is giving the expertise early in the project to provide the tools for this progression. But none of the technical objectives can be met without FEG staff working within a framework of close liaison with all PACAPS partners, from the project’s managing team in Nairobi and Addis Ababa, to the COMESA direction in Lusaka, to ELMT implementing partners. Hence, developing project relationships is an essential part of FEG's task.
