Pastoralism, Policy & Power (page 14)
Pastoralist women’s rights & leadership forums in Tanzania
In an effort to open up opportunities for pastoralist women to secure their access to land, the Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC), Ujamaa Community Resource Team (UCRT) and Maliasili Initiatives (MI) are involved in a project “Advancing the Rights of Pastoral Women in Tanzania” in Maasai communities in northern Tanzania. The ILRI Rangelands Research Report 3 […]
Uganda–Kenya Cross-border agreement for the Karamoja cluster
In mid-September 2019, the Presidents of Uganda and Kenya signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a Kenya–Uganda (Turkana/West Pokot – Karamoja) cross-border programme for sustainable peace and socio-economic transformation for the Karamoja cluster. The draft MoU for the joint cross-border initiative can be found here and the joint workplan 2019–23 for the implementation […]
IYRP promoted at pastoralism conference in Burkina Faso
At the Conference on Pastoralism and Rangelands Restoration on 19-20 June 2019 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Tezera Getahun from Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia (PFE) – a member of the IYRP Support Group and member of the CELEP Core Group – presented the call for a United Nations International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists (IYRP). He explained […]
Challenges in studying pastoralist conflict in southern Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Government continuously calls for policy-relevant research, but the attempts to fill the evidence gap cannot ignore the political economy and power dynamics in the country. The article “Fundamental challenges in academic–government partnership in conflict research in the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia” (2019) by Mercy Fekadu Mulugeta et al., published in the IDS Bulletin […]
Karamojong: “Pastoralism is our future”
The Karamoja Development Forum (KDF), a CELEP partner organisation based in Uganda, has issued a statement to the Ugandan Government in defence of the pastoralists’ rights to mobility. The statement “For Karamojong: Pastoralism is our future, not our past” was published in the newspaper New Vision on 27 May 2019. It was in response to […]