Women In Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods
PATHWAY
Women, Coffee and Climate
Modern Day Slavery
P/CVE Project
Migrating out of Poverty - Ethiopia
ELLA Project
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Capacity Development training for PhD students
The training objective was to help the PhD students in analyzing, publishing their works in journals, and completing their studies effectively. The training titles were “Application of Systematic Review (Meta-synthesis and Meta-Analysis): A refresher training for PhD scholars”. and “Academic writing and publications”. The main objective of the first half-day training was to equip PhD students with the theory and........
Capacity Development training
A PhD course focusing on climate mobility theory, methodology and gender analysis. During the PhD course students presented their revised proposals and discussed ways to work in mobility considerations beyond the movement of people, including attendance to gender intersectionality and age specificity, the latter geared at future fieldwork among children and young people. The finance team training focused on budgeting, accounting........
Fieldwork in South Ethiopia (Chencha and Duguna Fango)
Two Woredas, Chencha and Dugena fango, which are situated in the Gamo and Wolyeta zones, respectively, were used for the field work. The research team visited the site of the field work, spoke with the appropriate officials, and did a preliminary in-depth interview with locals. The preliminary fieldwork was carried out to select field sites for the PAWTHWAYS project. The field visit resulted in the selection of........
Hostile Environment Awareness Training (HEAT) Course
Throughout the training, members of the project developed shared guidelines for conducting pre-departure risk assessments, ensuring travel and accommodation safety, protecting interlocutors (including secure digital data storage), and........
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NEWS & EVENTS
Fieldwork in South Ethiopia (Chencha and Duguna Fango)
Participants: Senior researchers and PhD students
Fieldwork was conducted: September 2023
The objective of the fieldwork:
The objective was to undertake a site analysis of the local context, select appropriate kebeles from each study site for further research, introduce local officials and relevant stakeholders to the PATHWAYS research, and introduce the PhD students to the area to facilitate their further activities.
Description:
Two Woredas, Chencha and Dugena fango, which are situated in the Gamo and Wolyeta zones, respectively, were used for the field work. The research team visited the site of the field work, spoke with the appropriate officials, and did a preliminary in-depth interview with locals. The preliminary fieldwork was carried out to select field sites for the PAWTHWAYS project. The field visit resulted in the selection of Chencha Woreda in the Gamo Zone, and Dugena Fango Woreda in the Wolaita Zone. In the latter, two kebeles (Anka Damota and Fango Bijo) were selected. The visit resulted in a field report covering the profile of each study site, an assessment of environmental change and vulnerability, and a mapping of mobility patterns and available social protection mechanisms.
Photo-1: Climate change affected crops (Duguna Fango)
Photo-2: Search for potable water (Duguna Fango)
Photo-3: Search for potable water (Duguna Fango)
Photo-4: Landslide (Duguna Fango)
Photo-5: Households’ life with wilting Enset crops (Chencha)
Photo-6: Landslide due to high-intensity rainfall (Chencha Area)
Photo-7: A homestead with only two Enset crops (Chencha)
Photo-8: A boy with the Health-related impacts of increasing temperature/Climate change (Leishmaniosis)-the sand fly expanding its niche to the highlands (Chencha)
Photo-9: A woman and her house devoid of the Enset grove (Chencha)
Photo-10: Sweet potato and maize field (Chencha)