R4D Eritrea

PN02 Final Report. Water productivity improvements of cereals and foods legumes in the Atbara Basin of Eritrea.

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:54 GMT

Document Type: Key Document
Creator: Grando, S.; Iyassu Ghebretatios; Amlesom, S.; Ceccarelli, S.; El-Hadi Maatougui, M.; Abdoul Aziz Niane; Mustafa, Y.; Sarter, A.; Abdalla, O.; Tsegay Bernahe; Negusse Abraha; Selamawit Tsegay; Tesfu Isaac; Tesfamichael, E.; Semere Hailemichael; Melawel Semere; Tekle Tafere; Woldeamlak Araia; Adugna Haile; Seyoum Mesfin; Tewelde Ghebresselassie

Production Year: 2010

Citation: The CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food, Colombo, Sri Lanka. 87 pp.

Summary: The project ‘Water Productivity Improvement of Cereals and Food Legumes in the Atbara Basin of Eritrea’ is an example of organization and implementation of farmers’ participatory research, conducted utilizing the available indigenous knowledge while empowering farming communities. Farmers have been partners in technology development with extension and research, with full decision-making power in planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

The project produced, in partnership with farmers, new varieties of cereals and food legumes which have proven farmer acceptability; established seed systems which supply farmers with quality seed in a sustainable manner; enhanced farmers’ skills in participatory research and in community based seed production; strengthened the capacity of National Institutions to carry out participatory research and technology transfer, and strengthened linkages between research, seed, and extension departments by working together in cooperation with farmers and farmers’ communities.

Leishmaniasis control in eastern Africa: past and present efforts and future needs. Situation and gap analysis.

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:36 GMT

Document Type: Literature Review
Creator: Malaria Consortium

Production Year: 2010

Citation: Leishmaniasis control in eastern Africa: past and present efforts and future needs. Situation and gap analysis. Malaria Consortium; 87 pp.

Summary: In an attempt to reverse the current increasing trend of leishmaniasis in eastern Africa and strengthen regional control, this report provides an up-to-date and detailed overview of the distribution and burden of the disease in the countries of the region (Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, North Sudan, Southern Sudan and Uganda), past and present control efforts, and research activities. Based on these findings it identifies key gaps in current intervention efforts in the region and puts forward some recommendations on how control could be improved.

Media Handbook for Development Researchers.

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:57 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Mwesigye, P. G.; Lugalambi, G. W.; Okao, J.

Production Year: 2008

Citation: Panos Eastern Africa, Kampala, Uganda, 46 pp.

Summary:

This guide is primarily a how-to manual of tools, resources, and tips for the benefit of development researchers interested in opening an ongoing dialogue with the media and a reliable avenue for disseminating their research. It is intended to give researchers valuable insights in the professional cultures and operations of the media in East Africa and practical knowledge on how to convey research results with the media in compelling form, substance and style. It is specifically targeted at researchers in eight countries of East Africa and the Horn of Africa: Dijbouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

This handbook clarifies the professional context of journalism that development researchers must be aware of in their media outreach efforts. It offers a series of practical tips on how to effectively present and package development research for the consumption of the media and for the benefit of their audiences. The handbook also gives some extra insights into the structure of the media industry and journalistic profession in Eastern Africa generally. Researchers are reminded that development research must ultimately compete for time and space, and have the same appeal, as any other category of public information and news. In many significant ways, therefore, suggestions in this guide reflect the typical advice that anybody interested communicating important public issues via the media would find applicable and handy. Similarly, although the advice in this guide draws on specific examples and experiences from selected countries in Eastern Africa, development researchers across the region will find the guidelines equally relevant.

Participatory crop breeding reaps benefits for Eritrea

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:03 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: S. Grando

Production Year: 2011

Citation: CPWF Research Highlight No. 1, 2 pp.

Summary: Crop breeding and management research is enabling farmers in Eritrea to develop and grow improved varieties of food crops that are particularly well adapted to the harsh conditions of their land.

IEC/DFID virtual and physical conference: Education for Nomads, Pastoralists and Migrant Fisherfolk: Proceedings

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:04 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous

Production Year: 2002

Summary:

IEC and the Department for International Development (DFID) organised this electronic conference specifically to discuss education for nomads and pastoralists, with a focus on Nigeria. Following the initial discussions in the 4-week online conference, a week-long physical conference was held in Abuja, Nigeria, on the 16th -19th January 2002. The conference culminated in a further four-week virtual conference to discuss and draw together the outcomes of the prior electronic and physical conferences.

Links are provided from the website to 15 papers presented at the conference:

Lessons learned in providing basic pre-service teacher training to nomadic pastoral youths: the course at the federal college of education, Yola
Challeges and opportunities to nomadic education: the Sudanese/Eritreans experience
Nomadic education in Nigeria: strategic direction for improving education access for nomads, pastoralists and migrants
Dissemination of research findings on nomadic education in Nigeria (the migrant fishermen education experience). Issues and directions
The roles of pastoralist NGOs in nomadic education in Nigeria: the experiences of Al-Hayah
Providing functional education to pastoralists: the approach of a non-governmental organisation
Nomadic education and the girl child: an analysis of the factors for and against the girl child education among nomadic pastoralists
Social, Economic and political activities of nomads and educational policy implementation for nomads
What is 'field building' on issues of peace and security in agro-pastoral communities?
Pastoralist children and stakeholders' assessment of nomadic education in Nigeria:a tentative report of a consultative survey of nomadic education pupils, communities and the CBOs/NGOs
La CPP-CP: un puissant courant magnetique de developpement a l'echelle de l'individu
Situation report on nomadic education
Sexual and reproductive health among youth in Nigeria. Implication for nomadic education
A Northern Nigerian Perspective
The El-Barta child and family project, Community-based early childcare and development programme: an integrated approach

'Imagining Eritrea': the creation of the nation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:32 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Gruber, J.

Production Year: 2001

Citation: 20 pp.

Summary:

This paper addresses the creation of the Eritrean nation by the post-liberation government between 1991 and 2001. Subsequent events and outcomes are not discussed here. Current anthropological debates and positions on nationalism, the creation of the nation and ethnicity are first discussed. The Eritrean government's appeals to nationalism and its fashioning of a national identity based on sometimes contentious or minority perceptions of ethnicity are examined. To provide historical context, a few of the ways in which identity has been formed and re-formed in the past century in what is now Eritrea are considered. The essentialising notions of the Eritrean government with regard to identity are contrasted with a number of relatively recent developments in anthropological theory, such as 'the open subject'. The influences of history and memory on national identity, especially as expressed through the metaphors of landscape – landscapes of loss and landscapes of renewal – are briefly addressed.

In sub-Saharan Africa forced migration is increasing year by year; repatriation invariably fails as a complete solution to displacement. Post-return negotiation of integration has been viewed in Eritrea as a contested process at local and national levels. Therefore, it is apposite that in this paper closer consideration is focused on whether and/or how refugees and returnees inform the debate on national identity and belonging.

Gender aspects of nationalism and ethnicity are also considered. Research indicates female and male notions of nation and nationality can be somewhat different, and differently expressed.

Gender: Eritrean People's Liberation Front and Eritrean government initiatives

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Gruber, J.

Production Year: 2001

Citation: 20 pp.

Summary:

Focus is given here to a description of activities concerning women's position and the gender initiatives undertaken between the mid 1970s and 1991, firstly by the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (the EPLF) during its conflict with Ethiopia and secondly by the post-liberation governments (a transitional government between liberation in May 1991 and 1993, and the current government thereafter, once independence had been ratified.

This document addresses events to early 2001. In many cases there is little or no documentation available regarding people's responses to such actions during the liberation struggle; such information as exists is set out here, and consideration given to emerging issues of gender equality in the light of previous and current action by those in power. The concluding comments point out certain topics remaining to be addressed by both government and the general population (with its many interest groups and varying perceptions) if post-liberation policy is successfully to be translated into practice.

Gender sensitive programme design and planning in conflict affected situations. Research Report.

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:19 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: J. El-Bushra, A. El-Karib and A. Hadjipateras

Production Year: 2002

Citation: 8 pp.

Summary: This report outlines a project intended to contribute to the reduction of poverty and suffering through enhancing gender-awareness in the design and management of development projects in contexts affected directly or indirectly by conflict. It aimed to achieve this by increasing understanding of the gender dimension of conflict, both for the humanitarian community and for development practitioners. The project sought to address two particular questions, namely how do gender relations change as a result of conflict? and how might conflict itself be fuelled by aspects of gender identity? It also examined the strategic and research implications of these findings for project design. The project ran from April 2000 to December 2001: field research was carried out in Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Mali and Angola, with complementary desk studies for Eritrea and Rwanda. These case studies, and reports on workshops conducted by the project, are published in separate Annexes [not available].

Creation of Eritrea: Past and Present. Nation and Location: Eritrean returnees' voices.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:45 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Gruber, J.

Production Year: 2000

Citation: Paper presented at the ASA UK Biennial Conference 11th-13th September 2000 'Africa: Past, Present and Future', 14 pp.

Summary:

In sub-Saharan Africa forced migration is increasing year by year; repatriation invariably fails as a complete solution to displacement. Post-return negotiation of integration has been shown to be a contested process at both national and local level. Therefore, it is apposite that closer consideration be focused on whether and/or how refugees and returnees inform both actual national policy and practice on the ground and also the debate on territoriality, belonging and the nation. In this paper discussion centres on the role/s of returnees in the shaping of the Eritrean nation and national identity.

This paper sketches certain aspects of academic discussions on identity, belonging, location, space and place and the influence or otherwise of history and memory on national identity, especially as expressed through the metaphors of landscape - landscapes of loss and landscapes of renewal. The role of the State in fashioning identity is considered.

'He gave me permission to go.' Gender in post-war Eritrea.

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:32 GMT

Document Type: Miscellaneous
Creator: Gruber, J.; Garcetti, E.

Production Year: 1998

Citation: Paper presented at the African Studies' Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, October 29th-November 1st, 1998, 27 pp.

Summary: This paper discusses fieldwork in Eritrea by a social anthropologist (Gruber) and a political scientist (Garcetti) between 1995 and 1998. It provides a case study of certain aspects of development and change in the newest nation-state in Africa. Its specific context encompasses consideration of the ways in which disparate groups of women (and men) are addressing the realities of life in a post-conflict Eritrea that remains predicated in its traditional socio-cultural values and norms upon patriarchy and female submission, against a background of government and institutional adherence to the achievement of gender equity and equality. In addition the paper discusses the ways in which Eritrean national identity is being created from previously clearly and consciously self-delineated groups. The many and public ways in which the present government conflates the route to genuine nationhood with the structure of the family, and its centralising focus on the notion of the consolidation of the greater family of the nation, presuppose the participation of women and girls as equal partners.