Global Health and Environment –
Current projects
Ethiopian Flood Vulnerability Survey
The project aims to provide baseline vulnerability information on flood exposed communities in Ethiopia in order to strengthen the ability to deal with risk reduction. The GFDRR project is related to the national “Woreda Vulnerability Profiling Project” implemented by the Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) of Ethiopia, in which Fafo is responsible for facilitating the data collection and to conduct the data analysis, including producing the project synthesis report.
Commissioned by: The Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)/World Bank
Researchers: Tewodros Kebede, Amsale Temesgen, Svein Erik Stave
Period: June 2009 - May 2011
Norway as Part of International Sustainable Development
The project is a sub-component of the project “Sustainable Development Indicators in the Light of the Precautionary Principle” coordinated by Statistics Norway and involving several Norwegian and international research institutions and individuals. The main aim of the project is to assess existing Sustainable Development Indicators’ ability to provide useful information for policy makers, with special focus on the ability to provide early warning signals, and to suggest indicators that meet such requirements.
Commissioned by: The Norwegian Research Council
Researchers: Svein Erik Stave and Jon Pedersen
Period: January 2009 – December 2011
UN Practitioners Handbook for Peace Consolidation Benchmarking
The primary objective of the project was to provide direct, practical, and field-focused guidance on benchmarking to assess progress towards or regress away from sustainable peace in countries where UN is involved in peace operations. The main output of the project is the publication/handbook: “Monitoring Peace Consolidation: UN Practitioners Guide to Benchmarking” (United Nations, New York, September 2010)
Commissioned by: UN Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO)
Researchers: Svein Erik Stave
Period: November 2008 – May 2010
Public Opinion Polls on the Horn of Africa
Commissioned by: Norwegian Embassy of Eritrea
Researchers: Ingunn Bjørkhaug, Anne Hatløy and Jon Pedersen
Period: 2009-2010
The primary objective of this project is to train young people in how to conduct a public opinion poll, and analyze present the results.
MICROCON, A Micro Level Analysis of Violent Conflict, a five-year research programme funded by the European Commission:
- Data and Measurement
Researcher: Jon Pedersen
- The users of force
Researchers: Morten Bøås and Ingunn Bjørkhaug
- Recruiting child soldiers: vulnerability, agency and reintegration
Researcher: Ingunn Bjørkhaug
- Sexual violence during and in the shadows of war
Researchers: Kathleen Jennings and Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic – Institute for Criminology and Sociological Research, Serbia
- Life and health in conflict zones
Researchers: Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
- Citizenship and land rights
Researchers: Morten Bøås and Anne Hatløy
Sichuan Earthquake Victim Survey – A follow-up
Commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Researchers: Kristin Dalen and Jon Pedersen
2009
Scarce Resources and Conflict in the Horn of Africa
The project aims to contribute to understanding the dynamics of competition over scarce resources, resource degradation, climate change and conflict in the Horn of Africa. The various sources of information for the project are reports by governmental and non-governmental offices, research institutions at the local level, statistical offices, meteorological offices and agencies engaged in conflict resolution. The project will also be supported by short qualitative fieldworks to Ethiopia and Kenya.
Commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Researcher: Amsale Temesgen
2008-2009
Eritrea Demographic and Health Survey
National Statistics Office in Eritrea, in collaboration with Ministry of Health, is currently preparing for the implementation of a follow up survey to the 1995 and 2002 Eritrea Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS). The survey is planned to be conducted in 2010 and will cover 36,000 households to enable an accurate estimation of maternal mortality, and will include, for the first time, an HIV module including testing to determine the prevalence rate. Fafo is providing technical assistance ion the project.
Commissioned by Unicef Eritrea
Researchers: Anne Hatløy, Jon Pedersen and Huafeng Zhang
2009
Improving infant and child nutrition – NIPI/Vurdering av sentrale tema knyttet til barneernæring i en stat i India (Madhya Pradesh)
Child undernutrition continues to represent a major challenge in India, which has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world. The Norway-India Partnership Initiative (NIPI) was initiated in 2007 to focus on reducing child mortality and improving child health to attain the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 by 2015. Child undernutrition has been shown to be responsible for more than 30% of child deaths, thus improving infant feeding and child nutritional status are important strategies for achieving MDG-4. Inclusion of nutrition as a focal area of NIPI is under consideration, and in that context more information on the various actors' role and their influences as well as factors promoting and obstructing adequate nutritional care is pivotal.
(Prosjektet gjøres i samarbeid med Academy of Nursing Sciences (ANSWERS) i Hyderabad, og vil undersøke de viktigste påvirkningene på spedbarns og småbarns ernæringsforhold i India.)
Commissioned by Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Researchers: Liv Elin Torheim and Marina de Paoli
2009-2011
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