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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01/09/2023
By: Ann

Newsletters of Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA)

The Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) – of which CELEP is a member – is issuing a newsletter to provide updates on what is happening to Maasai communities in the Ngorongoro and Loliondo areas and in other parts of northern Tanzania. These are areas from which the Maasai have been or are being ousted by […]

19/03/2022
By: Ann

UN declared IYRP in 2026 !

On 15 March 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) declared 2026 the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP). This final approval is the culmination of an IYRP movement that grew over several years to become a global coalition of over 300 pastoralist and supporting organisations. CELEP – through its member organisation Agrecol Association […]

01/06/2021
By: Ann

Pastoralism is the future – animated video

Man-made climate change is creating conditions on our planet that are increasingly characterised by variability and unpredictability. Pastoralists use variability to their advantage. Their production systems guide us to a sustainable future. Find out how they do it in this 2:23-min animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqITzac9Ac This video film was created by Cartoonbase and realised by CELEP […]

27/03/2024
By: Ann

Impact of climate drivers on pastoral & crop production in Ethiopia

The policy brief “Aligned climate drivers and potential impacts on food security in Ethiopia in 2024” (2024, 12pp) by Adrian Cullis and Solomon Bogale et al, published by the SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises) programme, examines the impacts of the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) climate […]

27/03/2024
By: Ann

Climate-resilient development for Somalia

The technical report “Climate-resilient development for Somalia” (2023, 80pp) by Manisha Gulati et al, published by the SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises) programme, outlines ways that policymakers in Somalia can increase access to climate finance and better integrate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. Somalia’s economy is currently based primarily […]

27/03/2024
By: Ann

Shifting livelihood strategies of South Sudan’s pastoralists

The technical report “Faced with floods: South Sudan: shifting livelihood strategies among South Sudan’s pastoralists” (2023, 20pp) by Alex Humphrey et al, published by the SPARC (Supporting Pastoralism and Agriculture in Recurrent and Protracted Crises) programme, explores how pastoralists and agropastoralists in South Sudan’s Unity State are adapting their livelihood strategies in response to conflict […]

27/03/2024
By: Ann

With camelids into a sustainable future

For the International Year of Camelids 2024, Misereor, DITSL (German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture) and LPP (League for Pastoral Peoples) in Germany have brought out a dossier on pastoral camelid husbandry around the world: “With camelids into a sustainable future: learning from pastoralist communities” (2024, 20pp), published by welt-sichten, Frankfurt. It describes the […]

20/03/2024
By: Ann

Promoting investment in pastoral & agropastoral systems in IGAD region

The Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) of the Intergovernmental Agency for Development (IGAD), in partnership with AFD (French Development Agency), conducted a regional study on (agro)pastoral systems in East and the Horn of Africa. The ICPALD policy brief “Promoting investment in climate smart livestock in pastoral and agro-pastoral systems for co-benefit of […]

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