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Lorraine Coulter
A water and livelihoods specialist, Lorraine's expertise lies in the analysis of quantitative and qualitative livelihood systems information, with a particular focus on livelihoods modeling. She has developed a range of models to simulate the impact of development program interventions, most recently directed towards informing program design, targeting, and assessment of 'graduation' from the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in Ethiopia. Drawing on her background in water resources, she has also led the development of a new methodology - Water Economy for Livelihoods (WELS) - for assessing water access at household level and related impacts on food security. Recent work in this area includes an ODI/RiPPLE-funded study projecting impacts of IPCC and other climate change scenarios on household water and livelihoods security in Ethiopia. Lorraine also specializes in database management and development. She recently created an interface enabling remote sensing based crop yield data from the World Food Programme's LEAP (WRSI) software to be used in Ethiopia's national livelihoods database tools for seasonal assessments of food security for the country's disaster risk mitigation and famine early warning system. She speaks Swahili and has a working knowledge of French.
