CELEP Documents (page 2)
Critical assessment of Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs)
In the paper “What’s wrong with the Wildlife Management Area (WMA) model?”, the Maasai International Solidarity Alliance (MISA) – which includes CELEP – has made a critical assessment of so-called “community-based conservation” that is sold under the banner of Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in Tanzania. WMAs promised to vest village governments and local communities with […]
CELEP contributes to MOOC on pastoralism in development
Pastoral development would benefit greatly from a better understanding of pastoralism by project planners. CELEP member organisation IIED (International Institute for Environment & Development) and Saverio Krätli (editor of Nomadic Peoples) have created a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), funded by Misereor, Germany, as an entry point for navigating the available knowledge on pastoralism, including […]
CELEP film with rangeland voices at SRM 2023 conference
At the 76th Annual Conference of the Society for Range Management (SRM), its International Affairs Committee (IAC) and the IYRP ISG (International Support Group for the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists) convened an online symposium on “Global issues influencing success for the IYRP, 2026 and beyond”. This was on 7 February 2023, the week […]
Pastoralism & climate resilience: technical paper + policy brief
Based partly on a CELEP webinar on pastoralism and climate change in December 2021, two publications by Saverio Krätli et al. were brought out by GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation) in 2022: Technical background paper “Pastoralism and resilience of food production in the face of climate change” (20pp) Policy brief “Climate resilience – what […]
CELEP strategy-planning workshop 7–9 Dec 2022
The Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) was formed in 2009 by Cordaid Netherlands, which was its first host. In more recent years, VSFB (Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium) had served as host. CELEP members in Europe seek to lobby their national governments, European Union (EU) bodies and other policy-formulating agencies in Europe […]