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.
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01/12/2024
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Pastoralism & protected areas
The Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) – specifically, the IYRP Working Group on Ranglands & Biodiversity – prepared a position paper “Pastoralism and protected areas” for the 16th Conference of Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP16) in December 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Specific […]
29/11/2024
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Pastoralism & rangelands: people & institutions – glossary
The International Rangeland Congress (IRC) has collaborated with the Global Alliance for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) to bring out “Rangelands and pastoralists: people and institutions – a glossary of terms” in order to provide guidance for understanding socio-institutional terms commonly used when referring to rangelands and pastoralists. This Version 1, brought […]
29/11/2024
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CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism
In 2020–21, initially the CELEP core group and then other CELEP members and partners engaged in intensive discussion to come to a common understanding of pastoralism. This discussion was based on the pastoral development orientation framework that Saverio Krätli developed for MISEREOR. In the 3-pager entitled “Pastoralists turn variability into food”, CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism […]
19/11/2024
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Pastoral, national & international approaches to humanitarian action
Resilience is an inherent component of pastoral systems but must be adequately supported through effective national and international policies and programmes. However, evidence provided by pastoralists and organisations working with them suggests that international and national humanitarian assistance is rarely provided in ways that are truly helpful for pastoralist communities to protect their livelihoods. The […]
26/10/2024
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Community conservancies impact herders’ adaptation to climate change
The establishment of numerous community-based conservancies in northern Kenya has brought about radical changes in the use of, access to and ownership of land. Research outlined in the policy brief “The impact of community-based conservation on pastoralists’ climate change adaptation” (2023, 4pp) by Jackson Wachira et al, revealed that community-based conservation aggravated pastoralists’ vulnerability to […]
