The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of IFPRI and the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) organized three short term trainings on; Census and Survey Processing System (CSPRo), Introduction to GIS (with applications to the livestock sector) and Efficiency and Productivity Analyses (with applications to the livestock sector),
Changing performance long-term with GIS technology
The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) plays a critical role in collecting data. Since 2009, ESSP has worked closely with the GIS department at CSA to create the first Population and Housing Census Atlas using geographic information systems (GIS) software in order to map important population characteristics by woreda.
Intermediate GIS Training – Wondo Genet
As part of ESSP’s ongoing commitment to training, a 4-day GIS training course was delivered in March 2015 at Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, part of Hawassa University. 11 lecturers, 1 MSc and 4 PhD students participated in the training. The dean of the college, Dr. Girma Mengesha, was grateful for the […]
Demand for GIS training ranked high among university lecturers
During mid-January, GIS training was delivered at Mekelle University to lecturers of postgraduate students. In total there were 12 participants. The training delivery was shared between Hailu Shiferaw and Helina Tilahun, who work for ESSP, a collaborative program between IFPRI and EDRI (Ethiopian Development Research Institute). Following the 4-day training course, the Vice President for […]
New ESSP Publication: ‘A Spatial Assessment of Livestock Production and Market Access’
ESSP Research Note 19 "A Spatial Assessment of Livestock Production and Market Access" by Helina Tilahun and Emily Schmidt. Summary of ESSP II Working Paper 44. This study links smallholder livestock production data from the Agricultural Census (2001/02) and annual CSA agricultural sample survey with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data on land cover, city population, […]