Laila B. LokosangAfrican Risk Capacity Group
Laila B. Lokosang
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
Additional affiliations
May 2007 - February 2011
National Bureau of Statistics
Position
- Managing Director
Description
- 1. Departmental team leadership in planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting duties 2. Oversight of activities of the Food Security Technical Secretariat 3. Leadership of preparation of biennial progress toward attainment of the Millennium Development Goals reports 5. Coordination and facilitation of the multi-stakeholder Livelihood Analysis Forums (LAF) which were
November 2006 - May 2007
United Nations Mission in Sudan
Position
- Information Management Officer
Description
- 1. Strengthen the Information Management (IM) capacity of the Return, Reintegration and Recovery (RRR) Section or government counterparts; 2. Provide training and carry out other capacity building activities in support of government counterparts, particularly in GIS and database development; 3. Support strategic and tactical decision making by processing data and information and presenting it in the format most useful for analysis (e.g. reports, maps)
September 2001 - September 2003
Ministry of Health
Position
- Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
Description
- • Training of project personnel in pilot districts in data management using custom computer package, data compilation and reporting procedures. • Collation of data and production of project performance indicators based on data collected from pilot districts.
Education
February 2011 - March 2016
Publications
Publications (9)
Food insecurity has gained considerable global attention in the past two decades, ranking top of the Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals. Although the subject has received considerable research, it was largely centred on describing the incidence of food insecurity and vulnerability; with food availability and access often the domains of fo...
Biofortification is an approach used to increase micronutrient content of crops through agronomic practices, conventional or modern biotechnology. Through a plethora of projects, partnerships were formed to advocate for policy changes, and increased investments in research, production and utilisation of biofortified crops. One of such projects is t...
This study sets out to investigate the effect of the ‘double risk’ of food insecurity as manifested through coping with livelihood strains and food expenditure during a protracted humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. We used Generalized Linear Mixed Modelling for determining possible predictors of the joint outcome of adopting or not adopting a copi...
This study aims to determine predictors of food insecurity in a typical setting where resilience of population is weakened as a result of protracted crises. South Sudan is used as a case study. The rationale of the study is anchored on the perception that food insecurity risk is a function of weak resilience, which in turn is a function of the abse...
Based on a number of household characteristics, livelihood capitals and endowments, we
generate a household food security resilience index. The rationale of the paper is premised on
the notion that resilience to food insecurity is a property of wealth and thus its proxy. The study
explored the statistical robustness and efficiency of the techniq...
The lack of a “gold standard” to determine and predict household food insecurity is well documented. While a considerable volume of research continues to explore universally applicable measurement approaches, robust statistical techniques have not been applied in food security monitoring and early warning systems, especially in countries where food...
