Desmond Tutu reconciliation award to Zeremariam Fre (PENHA)

Zeremariam Fre has been awarded the 2018 Desmond Tutu Reconciliation Fellowship by the Australian-based network Global Reconciliation. This award recognises his work in advocating for the rights of pastoralist and agropastoralist communities and care of the natural resources that support them as well as in conserving and sharing their indigenous knowledge. In 1989, Zeremariam Fre founded the Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa (PENHA), a member organisation of CELEP that focuses on marginalised pastoralists in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somaliland, Sudan and Uganda, facilitating knowledge sharing and cooperation across communities and borders. He fosters an understanding of pastoralism as an economically rational and environmentally sound way of living, and of pastoralists as effective custodians of their environment. He seeks local and community-led solutions to environmental and livelihood challenges which can be shared and adapted. His approach to pastoral development focuses on environmental sustainability and is shaped by a commitment to regionalism, reconciliation and grassroots action.

Read more in the Global Reconciliation media release.

Posted on 5 September 2018 in News