Pastoralism & Services (page 8)

Advocating for animal health services adapted to pastoralism

How should animal health services be organised so as to provide good-quality community-based services adapted to the needs of pastoralists? Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium (VSFB) – acting CELEP focal point since 2013 – tried to answer this question by holding a series of workshops together with Réseau Billital Maroobe (RBM) in West Africa in 2015-17 […]

Pastoralist education & peacebuilding in Ethiopia

The UNICEF study “Pastoralist education and peacebuilding in Ethiopia: results and lessons learned” (2015, 35pp), by Elizabeth King and Chrissie Monaghan of New York University, aims to strengthen peacebuilding through initiatives designed to increase access to good-quality education for remote and marginalised communities, particularly mobile peoples. The study focused on the Afar, Benishangul Gumuz, Gambella […]

Community animal health services build peace in the Sudans

In the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA) on the border between South Sudan and Sudan, Dinka Ngok and Missiriya pastoralists used to share pasture and water, with access being regulated by customary law. However, in recent years leading up to and after the independence of South Sudan, the AAA has been marked by frequent outbreaks of […]

ECHO: Good practices in supporting pastoralists

In its Best Practices Note No. 3 entitled “Assisting Pastoralists” (2013, 11pp), the US American charity organisation ECHO describes how it works with pastoralists. The Director of ECHO’s East Africa Impact Center, Erwin Kinsey, wrote the note based mainly on his experience in rural development in Tanzania. He describes what pastoralism is and the socio-political-cultural, […]

A critical review of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI)

First in Mongolia in Central Asia and now in Kenya and Ethiopia in Eastern Africa, pilots are being carried out with Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). A critical review of the experiences can be found in the report “The feasibility of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in the West African Sahel: framing the issue” (2016, 52pp) by […]

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