Welcome to the website of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), an informal advocacy group of European organisations and specialists partnering with pastoralist organisations and specialists in Eastern Africa. The members and partners of the Coalition combine forces to lobby their national governments and European and Eastern African bodies to explicitly recognise and support pastoralism and pastoralists in the drylands of Eastern Africa. We are also in the core team of the international movement that succeeded in gaining UN designation of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists in 2026. On this website for our Coalition, you can find the latest news, documents and articles related to the activities and interests of CELEP.
Articles
17/05/2014
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Land grabbing for conservation?
The 4-page IIED Briefing Paper “Land grabbing: is conservation part of the problem or the solution?” presents the experience of international-development, wildlife and human-rights practitioners shared at a symposium on land grabbing and conservation in March 2013. Weak governance and poor land-use planning mean that commercial “land grabs” often damage biodiversity and dispossess people from […]
28/04/2014
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From commitment to action: funding to build resilience in the Horn
In 2011 the member states of the Inter-Governmental Agency for Development (IGAD) and donor organisations launched the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience and Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI). It seeks to reduce disaster risks and improve livelihoods in the Horn using an integrated programming framework at national and regional levels, and to shift from humanitarian funding to development […]
29/03/2014
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CELEP meeting on pastoralism for European Parliament delegation in Sudan
On 25–27 March 2014, a delegation of the European Parliament visited Khartoum. Three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) who are in the Development Committee – Ricardo Cortés-Lastra (Spain), Filip Kaczmarek (Poland) and Fiona Hall (UK) – exchanged views with their Sudanese counterparts and government officials. In the past year, CELEP had worked intensively with […]
21/03/2014
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AGIR: Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative
This 4-page factsheet (February 2014) “AGIR: building resilience to food and nutrition crises in the Sahel & West Africa”, compiled by the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO), brings facts and figures about the humanitarian situation in the Sahel and West Africa and the EU response through contribution to the Global Alliance for Resilience Initiative (AGIR) […]
21/03/2014
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Horn of Africa factsheet
This 3-page Horn of Africa factsheet (August 2013) compiled by the European Commission Humanitarian Office (ECHO) brings basic information about the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa and the EU response. It includes examples of humanitarian projects in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
