CELEP Update March 2017

The CELEP update for March 2017 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities of the CELEP Focal Point at VSF–Belgium and the Regional Focal Point at RECONCILE in Kenya. This issue brings information about CELEP’s advocacy for an International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP) in the year 2020 and involvement in the World Bank “Conference on Land and Poverty” in Washington DC, the LANDac conference in Utrecht, setting up an Eastern and Southern African Pastoralists Network (ESAPN) and the upcoming partner meeting of the FAO Pastoralist Knowledge Hub in Rome. It also draws attention to the updated CELEP position paper on the value of pastoralism, lobbying activities at the European Union in Brussels and new CELEP network members.

Posted on 30 March 2017 in CELEP Documents, News, Value of Pastoralism

CELEP is managed by an elected European Focal Point, currently at VSF-Belgium, an Eastern African Focal Point, currently at RECONCILE, Kenya, and a Core Group. The 2022-2023 Core Group is composed of the European members Agrecol Association (Germany), International Institute for Environment and Development (UK) and VSF-Belgium; the Eastern African partners DADO Uganda, Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia, PENHA Somali and RECONCILE Kenya; and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Contact: Anthony Denayer | Av. des Arts 7-8 Kunstlaan, 1210 Brussels | a.denayer@vsf-belgium.org

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