Bereket Tsegay
A Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he was awarded a PhD in Development Studies; a Senior Research and Policy Analyst at the UK and Horn of Africa-based Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA), and Non-Resident Fellow of the African Studies Centre Leiden. Having an MA in Public Policy and Management from the University of Potsdam, Germany, his research has focused on the intersection of migration/forced internal displacement, conflict, pastoralism, social security, food systems, policy analysis, natural resource governance, dynamics of institutions in development, risk management, digital services, green economy and climate change. Tsegay has rich experience in both consultancy and programme management of the EU and UN-supported activities in the Horn of Africa countries including Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan and Uganda. His latest co-edited book is Social Protection, Pastoralism and Resilience in Ethiopia: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security intervention: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. It goes beyond an analysis of immediate impacts, exploring factors such as highland-lowland interactions, rural-urban linkages, economic diversification, the role of youth, indigenous safety nets and social capital. Special attention is given to gender-responsive social protection measures and to the circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of indigenous knowledge systems and local institutions in contributing to the design of more effective safety net programmes and disaster responses and in helping people to build resilience and cope with shocks.
At a time when social protection is gaining prominence in contemporary development discourse, this book will be of interest to development practitioners.
Authors: Zeremariam Fre, Bereket Tsegay, Gabriel Temesgen, Selamawit Teklu Araya and Nicole Kenton
The paper argues that pastoralism and agro-pastoralism (i.e. as an environmentally/ socially sustainable livelihood system) is going through a serious self generated and externally driven evolving process which may be irreversible. Thus a change of the pastoralist production system from subsistence to more commercial orientation may be feasible. This reality, the authors believe, is so fundamental that government planners, researchers, international organizations and funders must recognise this if they wish to contribute to the wellbeing of pastoral peoples from a food security dimension in the Horn of Africa region.
Drawing from authors’ experiences from Eastern Sudan, Western Ethiopia and Western Eritrea, they demonstrate the significant economic contribution small producers make to food security within the Region as well as the Middle East, the key challenges they face and recommend ways in which such contribution could be enhanced at national and regional levels.
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Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security intervention: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. It goes beyond an analysis of immediate impacts, exploring factors such as highland-lowland interactions, rural-urban linkages, economic diversification, the role of youth, indigenous safety nets and social capital. Special attention is given to gender-responsive social protection measures and to the circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of indigenous knowledge systems and local institutions in contributing to the design of more effective safety net programmes and disaster responses and in helping people to build resilience and cope with shocks.
At a time when social protection is gaining prominence in contemporary development discourse, this book will be of interest to development practitioners.
Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security intervention: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. It goes beyond an analysis of immediate impacts, exploring factors such as highland-lowland interactions, rural-urban linkages, economic diversification, the role of youth, indigenous safety nets and social capital. Special attention is given to gender-responsive social protection measures and to the circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of indigenous knowledge systems and local institutions in contributing to the design of more effective safety net programmes and disaster responses and in helping people to build resilience and cope with shocks.
At a time when social protection is gaining prominence in contemporary development discourse, this book will be of interest to development practitioners.
Authors: Zeremariam Fre, Bereket Tsegay, Gabriel Temesgen, Selamawit Teklu Araya and Nicole Kenton
The paper argues that pastoralism and agro-pastoralism (i.e. as an environmentally/ socially sustainable livelihood system) is going through a serious self generated and externally driven evolving process which may be irreversible. Thus a change of the pastoralist production system from subsistence to more commercial orientation may be feasible. This reality, the authors believe, is so fundamental that government planners, researchers, international organizations and funders must recognise this if they wish to contribute to the wellbeing of pastoral peoples from a food security dimension in the Horn of Africa region.
Drawing from authors’ experiences from Eastern Sudan, Western Ethiopia and Western Eritrea, they demonstrate the significant economic contribution small producers make to food security within the Region as well as the Middle East, the key challenges they face and recommend ways in which such contribution could be enhanced at national and regional levels.
Based on rigorous empirical research, this book assesses the successes, failures, prospects and lessons learned from Africa’s largest social security intervention: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme. It goes beyond an analysis of immediate impacts, exploring factors such as highland-lowland interactions, rural-urban linkages, economic diversification, the role of youth, indigenous safety nets and social capital. Special attention is given to gender-responsive social protection measures and to the circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of indigenous knowledge systems and local institutions in contributing to the design of more effective safety net programmes and disaster responses and in helping people to build resilience and cope with shocks.
At a time when social protection is gaining prominence in contemporary development discourse, this book will be of interest to development practitioners.