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The purpose of this paper is to review demographic trends as well as settlement and service provision patterns using quantitative data, where possible, and drawing on experiences, evidence and lessons from the Horn and East Africa regions. It addresses some of the most salient issues around pastoral livelihoods, emphasising the need to improve understanding in efforts to promote the resilience of these livelihoods. This study recognises the complexity of the issues and does not aim to provide answers, but rather to highlight issues and pose questions that policy makers, politicians and other key stakeholders need to grapple with in order to put into practice measures to reduce risk and mitigate vulnerability. 

Year of publication: 2010
Organization:  
Topic: Resiliencia, Servicios sociales
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Científico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental

This study examines the effects of climate change, drought and decreasing natural resources
amongst mobile populations, specifically pastoralists in the North Eastern and North Rift Valley provinces of Kenya. The study provides an evidence base and proposes programmatic interventions that would be implemented in collaboration with the regional governments and other key players to address conflicts over resources and increased migration to [peri] urban areas.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Autores individuales, Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (UNEP) 
Topic: Cambio climático, Pueblos indígenas
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental

This guide is written for people who want to design and implement a simple rangeland monitoring programme in Eastern Africa. It outlines a series of steps that will enable community members and other land managers to decide what, where, when, and how to monitor, as well as how to interpret and apply the results of their monitoring. The guide introduces a simple set of methods for collecting monitoring data using only a pencil, a stick, and a single datasheet.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Autores individuales 
Topic: Tierra
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: África Oriental

Lessons from West Africa indicate cross-border mobility needs to be addressed within a comprehensive policy, legal and institutional framework that harmonizes national and regional legislation to secure livestock mobility from the local to the regional level. At regional level, the ECOWAS decision agreed in Abuja in October 1998 provides a regional framework for cross-border transhumance between fifteen member states.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Mercado Común para África Oriental y Meridional 
Topic: Conflicto, Participación
Language: English
Type of document: Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Oriental, África Meridional

Biocultural community protocols are a new approach with great potential for empowering pastoralists and other traditional livestock-keeping communities. They are both a process and a document in which communities invoke their rights as guardians of biological diversity under Article 8j of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. Claiming rights for in-situ conservation, they also help promote livestock keepers’ rights to maintain their breeds and continue their traditional management practices.

Biocultural community protocols put on record traditional knowledge and the biodiversity that communities steward, in a process that the communities themselves drive. In developing a biocultural community protocol, communities become informed about national and international laws that protect their rights. This book provides an overview of the process as well as its legal background and describes the first experiences with implementing this approach by livestock keepers in Asia and Africa.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: , Liga de Comunidades de Pastores (LPP) 
Topic: El conocimiento indígena, Organización, Participación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global

This policy brief argues the need for national strategies to guide development actors and help enhance the impact of aid interventions. There is also a need to close the gap between the theory and practice of pastoral development by supporting longer-term investments and programme strategies, ensuring that good practices are adopted, and bridging the gap between development and emergency relief efforts.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Instituto de Desarrollo de Ultramar 
Topic: Seguridad alimentaria
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Oriental

The study explores how strengthening the resilience of African livestock systems to climate change, and making current investments to improve African livestock coping mechanisms, can improve the climate resilience of small-holder farmers and pastoralists. The study was implemented in 2009 through two sub-regional reviews (one in eastern and southern Africa, the second in West and Central Africa), six country visits (Kenya, Namibia, Malawi, Cameroon, Niger and Mali), and an e-conference.

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza (IUCN) 
Topic: Cambio climático, Seguridad alimentaria, Innovación, Resiliencia
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico, Políticas y legislación
Geographical coverage: África Occidental, África Central, África Oriental

There is new interest and willingness to look afresh at how formal schooling can become compatible with pastoralism. It is becoming clear that Education for All requires a re-thinking of how pastoralists make a living and thus how formal education fits. Pastoralism is and will remain the main economic driver in most dryland regions of Africa, and is important also in semi-arid areas and mountainous highland regions in South Asia. This document presents the problem of the school-based model of formal education and discusses inclusive approaches to pastoral education. 

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Autores individuales 
Topic: Educación
Language: English
Type of document: Técnico
Geographical coverage: Global