Sierra Leone has emerged from a brutal, decade-long civil war and is deeply engaged in reconstruction and a transition to long-term development. However, its peace is still fragile and vulnerable to a variety of internal and external threats. The Title II Consortium for Relief and Development (CORAD) in Sierra Leone (composed of CARE, CRS, World Vision and Africare) contracted TANGO to undertake an analysis of the ability of its Development Relief Program infrastructure to respond to three different emergency scenarios which could occur within the life of the project. The analysis identified the primary threats to peace and civil security in Sierra Leone and constructed scenarios around major events that could trigger a humanitarian emergency. The analysis then assessed the impact and potential emergency response needs for each scenario, analyzed the Title II program’s capacity to respond, and recommended steps to monitor potential threats and expand contingency planning. Early Warning Consultant for Mercy Corps and CRS
Mercy Corps and Catholic Relief Services
TANGO developed an Early Warning System for Mercy Corps and Catholic Relief Services in order to obtain community level information on indicators concerning food security at the household level. The Early Warning System was integrated into existing Development Relief Programs in order to facilitate rapid emergency response as well as provide supplementary information to macro-level early warning systems such as the Eritrean Relief and Refugee Commission. To this end, TANGO designed an Early Warning System tailored to specific livelihood strategies while maintaining comparability with current information systems.
Transition Strategy for Dominican Republic
World Food Programme (WFP)
TANGO helped develop a concrete strategy for future development in the Dominican Republic for the World Food Programme (WFP). The strategy is centered on capacity building, networking, and resource mobilization in support of food based programs. To this end, TANGO drafted documentation that outlined nutritional and food security trends in the Dominican Republic, reviewed food based social protection programmes, recommended specific areas for capacity building in existing institutions, and suggested future directions for WFP in the Dominican Republic.
Asia Futures Scenario Planning for CARE International
Regional (East and Southeast Asia Jan 2006 - Present TANGO International conducted a regional scenario planning exercise for CARE’s Asia Regional Management Unit to help determine challenges for the Asia region in key program areas for decades to come. Through workshops and extensive guided research, different potential scenarios were created for the region. TANGO conducted an analysis of these scenarios against current trends and presented corresponding programming options for consideration.
WFP-WHO Collaboration Meeting on ART Scale-up
Jan 2005 - Feb 2005 World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO)
TANGO facilitated a meeting between the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in an effort to collaborate on the WHO’s "3 by 5" initiative. The initiative aims to provide anti-retroviral therapy (ART) to three million HIV-infected people in developing countries by the end of 2005. In order for ART to be effective however, people must also have access to nutritious food, thus creating a need for collaboration with WFP. TANGO assisted WFP and WHO by reviewing the issues of collaboration, drafting a work schedule, and facilitating the collaboration meeting. In addition to these duties, TANGO prepared a meeting report that captured major decisions and laid out the next steps towards collaboration for the two organizations.
Strategic Plan for the Agriculture Sector
Burkina Faso Aug 2002 - Aug 2002 Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
This document addresses the agricultural sector in Burkina Faso as part of a larger information gathering and analysis process aimed at developing a country-wide strategic program plan and in preparation for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) of a Development Activity Program for USAID. TANGO’s plan identifies the underlying causes of low agriculture productivity as low education levels, high population growth rates, poverty and use of inappropriate agricultural practices, i.e. techniques that are un-adapted to changing physical and environmental circumstances.