Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 8)
Innovation in governance among pastoralists: Horn of Africa
The report “Innovation in governance: integrating technical and contextual perspectives to address fragility” (2022, 12pp) by Kamran Hakiman & Chloe Stull-Lane, focuses on how using process innovations can improve decision-making within complex environments in the drylands of Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger and Somalia. The research centres on the participatory multistakeholder approach SHARED (Stakeholder Approach to […]
Pastoralism & policy course in Uganda
The Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) asked the International Institute for Environment & Development (IIED) to run a workshop in 2017 to introduce a pastoralism and policy training course developed for East Africa to a multistakeholder group from Uganda. Workshop participants agreed that the training – if adapted to the Ugandan context – would enable […]
Legal & policy options to support pastoralism in Kenya
For the course developed by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) on Pastoralism and Policy in East Africa, Michael Odhiambo prepared a contribution on “Policy and legal options for supporting pastoralism at country/inter-county levels in Kenya”. This outlines the opportunities for supporting pastoralism based on the strategy, policies and plans of the Government […]
Pastoral civil society across borders of Kenya, Uganda & Ethiopia
A study of civil society in border regions in Eastern Africa “Pastoralist civil societies: cooperative empowerment across boundaries in borderlands of Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia” (2018, 102pp) by Immo Eulenberger et al was published by the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute and the Robert Bosch Foundation. Civil society is generally regarded as constituting formal organisations that are […]
IGC/IRC 2021 papers on pastoralism, gender & policy issues in Eastern Africa
At the combined International Grassland & Rangeland Congress (IGC/IRC) held in Nairobi, Kenya, in October 2021, several papers about work in pastoral areas of Eastern Africa were presented in the session on “Pastoralism, social, gender & policy issues”: Social differentiation in (agro)pastoral climate change adaptation: intersectional perspectives on socio-technical change in Kenya and Burkina Faso, […]