Welcome to the website of the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP), an informal advocacy group of European organisations and specialists partnering with pastoralist organisations and specialists in Eastern Africa. The members and partners of the Coalition combine forces to lobby their national governments and European and Eastern African bodies to explicitly recognise and support pastoralism and pastoralists in the drylands of Eastern Africa. We are also in the core team of the international movement that succeeded in gaining UN designation of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists in 2026. On this website for our Coalition, you can find the latest news, documents and articles related to the activities and interests of CELEP.
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10/12/2016
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PENHA conference on pastoralism past & future
Pastoralism: past perspectives and future policy (2015, 78pp) is a report on a one-day conference held in October 2015 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of PENHA (Pastoral and Environmental Network in the Horn of Africa). The conference was organised by PENHA and the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), […]
08/12/2016
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Local knowledge + spatial technology to understand range ecosystems
Local knowledge and spatial technologies were combined to assess resource changes in the Amboseli ecosystem in southern Kenya. Reduction of grazing land was perceived to be the main change over the last 40 years and was reported to be more pronounced under sedentary and semi-nomadic land uses than in the nomadic pastoral land-use sites. These observed […]
03/12/2016
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DLCI journal Resilience in the drylands Vol. 5
The fifth volume (Dec 2014, 52pp) of the DLCI (Drylands Learning and Capacity Building Initiative for Improved Policy and Practice in the Horn of Africa) journal on resilience building in the drylands of the Horn of Africa contains articles on natural resource management in Ethiopia and Uganda, livestock insurance, Turkana’s aquifers, measuring resilience, the pastoralist […]
27/11/2016
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Women, livestock & markets in Eastern & Southern Africa
The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) published the book “Women, livestock ownership and markets: bridging the gender gap in Eastern and Southern Africa” (2013, 148pp) edited by Jemimah Njuki and Pascal Sanginga. It brings empirical evidence from Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique – and from different production systems, including […]
27/11/2016
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Policy for nomadic education in Kenya
The Revised Policy Framework for Nomadic Education in Kenya (2015, 32pp) issued by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is an updated version of the 2009 version of the policy framework, revised to reflect the structural and socioeconomic changes that took place in Kenya since 2009, e.g. the devolved governance structures, the bill of […]
