Influencing policy and practice to support pastoral livelihoods
Buzz Sharp, Brenda Kariuki, Sylvia Wamugi
Organisations working with pastoralists on practical and policy changes have not significantly changed thinking among policy makers and the media. The dominance of emergency response to crisis overshadows an urgent need for a more comprehensive understanding of pastoral livelihoods and their development needs as well as the constraints to change. Existing policies tend to remain unimplemented or inappropriate. Growing populations and a combination of other threats mask the potential to effectively utilize the natural resource base of these Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs) of the Region. The project aims to shed light on the constraints to change. Implementing partners will also work on 5 Thematic areas: 1. Climate change 2. Population and settlements 3. Social protection 4. Preparedness planning 5. Cross border trade, Vet services and conflict resolution as a means of networking with key audiences that influence policy. This will involve information gathering to develop evidence based policy briefs, increased policy dialogue, influencing policy and practice change and strengthening capacity to facilitate more effective communication with local partners and decision-makers. Join the debate: http://www.ebpdn.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=8
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, Horn and East Africa, International, Africa
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Organisation(s): SC-UK, Oxfam(GB), VSF-B, CARE, Cordiad, Reconcile
Donor(s): ECHO
Website: Discussion Forum
Start date: 2008-03-01
End date: 2009-06-30
Attached resources:
Civil Society Leadership and Policy Engagement Process Training: Improving the Nile Basin Discourse Policy EngagementOutcome Mapping for Insight to Impact Meeting
Cash Transfers – Lessons from Africa and Latin America
Revitilizing African Agriculture
Survival of the fittest: Patoralism and Climate Change in East Africa
The future for wildlife on Kenya's Rangelands: An economic perspective
Food Crisis and Complex Livelihoods in the Horn, East and Central Africa
Browsing the Fences: Pastoral land rights, livelihoods and adaptation to Climate Change
The Camel Milk Industry in Kenya
Pastoralist women and minority rights in Eastern Africa and the Horn
Why we need to rethink the signals which determine humanitarian intervention for more timely response
Social protection for Uganda’s most vulnerable and chronically poor: issues, challenges and options.
Pastoralist Scoping Study
Mobile pastoral systems & international zoosanitary standards
Getting It Right- Understanding livelihoods to reduce vulnerability of pastoral communities
Climate Change: Enabling Adaptive Capacity
Social Protection in Pastoral Areas
Pastoralism, policies and practice in the Horn & East Africa
Demographic Trends, Settlement Patterns and Service provision in pastoral areas
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