USAID is funding a Regional Enhanced Livelihoods for Pastoral Areas
(RELPA) program initiated in 2007 for a large area shared by Somalia,
Ethiopia and Kenya. At the center of this project is the ‘Mandera
Triangle’ – an area inhabited by Somali and Oromo pastoralists who have
suffered gravely in recent years from both conflict and drought.
A set of policy, coordination and analysis activities comes under
the Pastoral Areas Coordination, Analysis and Policy Support (PACAPS)
project, awarded to the Feinstein International Center (FIC) of Tufts
University, for which FEG Consulting is a core implementing partner.
FEG has primary responsibility for the Early Warning (EW) and Early
Response (ER) component of PACAPS. The goal is to link existing early warning and early response systems and actors together in a regional mechanism and transfer the livelihoods analysis tools needed to re-package national outputs into a regional overview.
