CELEP Documents (page 10)
CELEP position paper on new EU–Africa strategy
8 April 2020: The EU is currently reviewing its strategy with Africa. On 9 March 2020, the European Commission and the European External Action Service presented a joint communication “Towards a comprehensive strategy with Africa” to the European Parliament and Council. The European Parliament and Council are providing input into the strategy, which will define […]
CELEP Update March 2020
The CELEP Update March 2020 reports on past, ongoing and planned activities coordinated by CELEP through the European Focal Point at VSF-Belgium and the Eastern African Focal Point at RECONCILE in Kenya. This 3-page issue brings information on, amongst other things, CELEP involvement in the Kenya Pastoralists Week in December 2019 and CELEP’s co-signing of […]
Piloting Participatory Rangeland Management in Kenya
Since 2018, the CELEP partner organisation RECONCILE (Resource Conflict Institute) is collaborating with pastoralist communities and the County Government in Baringo and with technical partners in ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), ILC (International Land Coalition) and VSFB (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium, focal point of CELEP) in piloting the Participatory Rangeland Management (PRM) approach in Kenya. […]
CELEP report on Kenya Pastoralists Week 2019
Through CELEP’s Focal Point in Eastern Africa at the NGO RECONCILE, the Coalition contributed to the organisation of the Kenya Pastoralists Week (KPW) held in late December 2019 in Baringo County. The 14-page “Report on the Kenya Pastoralists Week 2019 in Baringo, Kenya: The Economy of Rangelands and Pastoralism” (2020) includes summaries of the main […]
CELEP co-signs call on locust crisis in the Horn
Desert locusts are breeding and spreading quickly through farm- and rangeland across the Horn of Africa – in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea and Tanzania. Somalia and Ethiopia are experiencing the worst locust crisis in over 25 years and Kenya the worst in over 70 years. The locust crisis could lead to […]