Pastoralism & Services (page 5)
CELEP webinar “Addressing animal health challenges in pastoral areas”
On 29 October 2020, Concern Worldwide and Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium (VSFB), representing CELEP, co-organised a webinar on “Addressing Animal Health Challenges In Pastoral Areas”. The aim was to exchange and learn about good practices related to delivering private- and public-sector animal health services in remote pastoral settings. The speakers were Emmanuel Emaruk (VSFB, Uganda) […]
Framework for One Health service in Turkana, Kenya
Pastoralists in Eastern Africa have limited access to public services because of economic and political marginalisation and limited health infrastructure in dryland areas. Kenya has institutionalised One Health at national level to integrate human and animal health service delivery but progress at subnational level has been limited because of sustainability concerns, competing priorities and insufficient […]
Addressing the double-crisis of locusts and COVID-19 in the Horn
17 April 2020: The combined impacts of COVID-19 and the desert locust invasion will worsen the already dire food-security situation in the Greater Horn of Africa. It is therefore critical that locust surveillance and control operations, as well as livelihood and food-security responses continue, even with the movement restrictions in place to prevent the spread […]
Context analysis of pastoralism & agropastoralism in Ethiopia
As a contribution to further development of the Draft Policy and Strategy Framework of the Ethiopian Ministry of Federal and Pastoral Development Affairs (MoFPDA), Mercy Corps commissioned the SEGEL Research Training and Consulting PLC to analyse the context of pastoralism and agropastoralism in the country. The “Context analysis of pastoral and agropastoral areas to enrich […]
Misereor’s pastoral development orientation framework: focus on Ethiopia
On Tuesday 24 September 2019, at the Social and Development Coordination Annual Meeting of the Ethiopian Catholic Church , MISEREOR — the development agency of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference — presented its Pastoral Development Orientation Framework for working with small-scale producers in pastoral systems in Ethiopia. It was a joint launch with the Ethiopian Catholic […]