CELEP Documents (page 1)
IYRP Policy brief on pastoralists’ land rights
Consistently with the CELEP’s understanding of pastoralism, this IYRP policy brief on Securing Land Rights for Pastoralism calls for seven priority actions to meet the challenges facing pastoralists’ use of rangelands — a global perspective also highly relevant to pastoralists in East Africa: Guarantee in the law pastoralists’ right of access to land for their […]
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 […]
CELEP update 2023-24
In the introductory session to the CELEP online meeting for strategy planning on 8 May 2024, Ann Waters-Bayer from Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology (Germany) and Ced Hesse from the International Institute for Environment and Development (UK) gave a brief update on CELEP activities in Europe from January 2023 to May 2024.
World Heritage Day: MISA calls on UNESCO to protect Maasai rights
On World Heritage Day, 18 April 2024, a group of organisations from Tanzania, the USA and Europe, including MISA (Maasai International Solidarity Alliance) to which CELEP belongs, called on UNESCO to end its complicity in human rights violations. UNESCO must remove sites from its list where human rights violations occur and listen to the local […]