Pastoralism, Gender & Youth (page 14)
Role of camel milk in pastoral livelihoods in Kenya
Kenyan researchers have explored the potential of camel milk to alleviate food insecurity of pastoral communities in northern Kenya. They studied the contribution of camel milk to pastoral household food baskets and incomes in Isiolo County in the Upper Eastern Region. Their findings, published in 2015 in the article “Role of camel milk in pastoral […]
Adolescent Turkana girls in the face of drought
There has been relatively little research about the lives of girls in pastoralist communities. The invisibility of pastoralist girls in research reflects their invisibility in many development programmes. Pastoralist girls face a triple challenge: their gender, age and geographical isolation place them among the most marginalised. Very few development interventions recognise, understand or address their needs. […]
Impact of Cordaid’s support to pastoralists in Kenya & Ethiopia
Under the umbrella of Partos, a Dutch platform of civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in international development, Cordaid, Hivos and ICCO designed a joint evaluation of their support to “indigenous peoples”, focusing on political and land rights, women’s rights, livelihoods and people’s organisation. Case studies were made of Cordaid-supported work in Ethiopia and Kenya, Hivos-supported […]
Women pastoralists’ empowerment
CELEP collaborated with WISP (World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism), IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development and UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) in bringing out a briefing note (4pp) on Women pastoralists’ empowerment: supporting positive change. Examples come from around the world, including Eastern Africa, of how pastoral women regard their own empowerment and how this […]
Power, equity and gender in pastoralist NRM
Power relations in pastoral societies are in constant flux. Recent changes in power relations in making decisions in natural resource management (NRM) are highlighted in a policy brief from WISP (World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism) on Power, equity, gender and decision-making in NRM (4pp, 2007). It focuses on pastoralist societies in East Africa – e.g. Barabaig, […]