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Data: 12/12/2017
La ONG CCM ricerca un/a Anthropological Researcher da inserire nella sua operatività in Etiopia. Candidature da inviare entro il 15 dicembre 2017.
Anthropological Researcher
Description: Consultancy Service for the realisation of an anthropological research in the frame of the project Emergency intervention to support drought affected population of Filtu and Dekasuftu in Liben Zone (Somali Region of Ethiopia).
Area: Somali Region of Ethiopia.
Contract Title: Consultancy Service for an anthropological research on the local communities’ perceptions on diseases and environmental risks in Filtu and Dekasuftu Woreda.
Deadline of application: 15th december, 2017.
Background information
CCM, Comitato Collaborazione Medica, is a non-for profit nongovernmental organisation founded in 1968 in Turin, by a group of medical doctors from Piedmont Region in Italy.
Our key mission is to promote the right to health and ensure access to essential health care.
We are a lay and independent organisation, guided by the values of solidarity, equity, non-discrimination and cultural respect.
We works through long term development projects, believing that health can be really promoted only with stable and durable interventions.
In case of natural disasters or epidemics in the areas where we work, we implements emergency interventions.
In regards to Ethiopia, CCM is registered in the country since 1998. CCM projects in Ethiopia aims at contributing to the promotion of a good health and quality of life for the poor and vulnerable people in the most remote areas of the country.
CCM, in consortium with the NGO CISP, is currently implementing the project “Emergency intervention to support drought affected population of Filtu and Dekasuftu in Liben Zone” started the 3 April 2017 and planned to be concluded the 2 April 2018.
In the frame of this and other projects in the area, CCM is applying the One Health (OH) approach with the aim of reducing health risks and improving the health status of local communities through the development of cross-sectorial and cross-level interventions. OH focuses on the interrelation of human, animal and environmental health and promotes a trans-disciplinary approach that combines the perceptions and knowledge of local communities with scientific methods and expertise. Ethiopia has recognized the potential benefits of One Health and with support of various donors, including USAID and FAO is exploring ways to promote OH thinking through a national One Health platform. In October 2017 workshop, various stakeholders discussed a national One Health strategy 2018-2022 which is currently under review and expected to be launched in 2018.
Capitalizing on the long-standing experience working with pastoralists in the target areas, CCM desires to deepen the analysis initiated through past projects in the identification of effective strategies to address the still huge and not yet met human, animal and environment health needs of pastoralist communities.
Supported by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), CCM conducted a study in 2015/2016 to assess the feasibility, efficacy and efficiency of the One Health (OH) approach
in Filtu woreda in the Liben Zone of Somali Regional State. The main purpose of the operational research was to assess local pastoralists’ needs, perceptions and behaviors towards human and animal health, in relation to the local socio-ecological context. Special attention was given to the strategies of adaptation to the environment – also in relation to climate change – and to the hindrances that prevent people to access the existing human and animal health facilities.
The study confirmed that besides subsistence, Filtu environmental context is the natural feedback system for pastoralists seeking health for themselves and their livestock. This relationship is not peaceful, since it elicits defensive responses by the environment. This means that a “healthy environment” is not necessarily providing health to pastoral communities: a repulsive disease could be the unwelcome answer.
Pastoralists need grass and leaves, both derived from rains. Most of the field narratives involve a strategy based on ‘We follow the rains, wherever they fall’. In Filtu woreda, rainfall is erratic in time and space, that is why mobility is an imperative for nomads. Moreover, pastoralists developed a “vegetal geography”; plants and features provide the herder a mental map to follow with patterns of land use: goats and camels must be driven to bushy areas since they are browsers; sheep and cows need grass, being grazers; both groups have to be taken to salt licks, a combination of minerals and water.
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