Localization and Expansion The organization is in the midst of a major transformational shift, defined as localization, in order to become more autonomous and independent in an increasingly competitive NGO market. The need for LSN's intervention of promoting trauma recovery and securing the transition from victimhood to Survivorship and then on to active citizens and community leaders has increased over time. Moreover, the peer outreach and support models have been tremendously successful in helping individuals recover from physical and psychosocial trauma, as well as economic loss, in post-conflict settings. This has led the Network to consider ways in which its peer support approach to recovery can be expanded to reach more survivors in a more efficient manner and to become more effective overall.  Thus, expansion possibilities are currently concentrated on the spread of a group based peer support approach that will allow the Network the capacity to increase the overall benefits to the greatest number of victims in nee, in a more effective and efficient manner. In order to reach as many survivors and communities as possible, those who are victims not only of landmines, but also war/conflict, the Network's office in Ethiopia, has taken the bold decision to move towards a "locally" managed and operated autonomous NGO beginning in 2009. This process of establishing increased autonomy is to be finalized by the end of 2008, and will fully establish LSN Ethiopia as an independent and autonomous NGO that is affiliated with Survivor Corps, the new global network of people helping each other overcome the effects of war and violence, which has replaced the former Landmine Survivors Network.  The possibilities for future regional expansion will be primarily focused on exporting the aforementioned group-based peer support approach to existing organizations and networks in other regions of Ethiopia's vast territory, especially the heavily affected border region of Tigray, on the Eritrean border. |
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