Ethiopia – Week two, part two – (P)PGIS in Enebsie Sar Midir

Ed Note: This post is coming online really late… just completely fell off my radar, somehow. Better late than never!

After finishing the Famine maps on Monday and Tuesday (previous blog), I was eager to get out into the field do to some hands on work with communities. Solomon, who was helping me coordinate my time in Ethiopia, sent me a message Tuesday night letting me know that there was a field program organized for in the Amhara region of the country the next day, in a town called Mertle Mariam in the north of the country. I was happy to hear that I would be working with Agri Service Ethiopia (an implementing partner of Oxfam’s), who I worked with in 2009-2010.

Situation of Mertle Mariam in Ethiopia

Kisumu ABCD Training

Sunset at Kiboko Point

The next three days in Kisumu were largely spent in the hotel, attending a training session which brought together the leaders from the communities that we had visited on Friday and Saturday.

The training was organized by Quiresh and Chris of World Neighbours and facilitated by Brianne. The approach taken by the training was to allow each of the communities present to find out what assets they had in their communities and to look at how they could best leverage these assets to come up with new initiatives to build capacity in their communities.