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Digital nomads & basic education in northern Kenya
In Digital Development Debates Issue 14 (March 2015) of the Development Policy Forum of GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation), the article “The real digital nomads”, by Uli Schwarz and Petra Dilthey, describes an e-learning programme called Ethno E-Empowerment among mobile Rendille, Samburu and Turkana pastoralists in northern Kenya. The pastoralists’ everyday lives – in […]
Cash transfers using cell phones in pastoral areas
In 2007, Safaricom Limited launched a mobile money-transfer system called MPESA in Kenya. This system allows users to send or receive money on their Safaricom SIM card. Télécoms sans Frontières (TSF) and Vétérinaires sans Frontières–Germany (VSF-G) collaborated in using this electronic money-transfer system to distribute cash-for-work in pastoral areas in northern Kenya. After a successful […]
Pastoralist women’s use of antenatal care service in Afar, Ethiopia
Pastoralists’ use of health services in Ethiopia is not well documented. Agrarian women’s use of maternal health services has proven to be effective in reducing the mortality of mothers. In early 2015, a study on “Pastoralism and antenatal care service utilization in Dubti District, Afar, Ethiopia”, published in Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice (2016 6:15), […]
Pastoralism Information Notes
In 2009 or 2010 (no date given), the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) brought out a series of eight “Pastoralism Information Notes” under coordination by John Morton. The notes, each by different authors, cover the following topics: Opportunities for pastoralist development Challenges to pastoral development Rights, governance and voice Improving risk reduction and relief development linkages […]
Mobile pastoralists & education
Educating nomadic peoples in the context of rapid global socio-economic change is a challenge of massive proportions. The paper “Mobile pastoralists and education: strategic options” (2009, 68pp) by Saverio Krätli and Caroline Dyer was developed in close collaboration with the Ministry of State for Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands, and the Ministry […]