Welcome

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.

CELEP is managed by an elected European Focal Point, currently at VSF-Belgium, an Eastern African Focal Point, currently at RECONCILE, Kenya, and a Core Group. The 2022-2023 Core Group is composed of the European members Agrecol Association (Germany), International Institute for Environment and Development (UK) and VSF-Belgium; the Eastern African partners DADO Uganda, Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia, PENHA Somali and RECONCILE Kenya; and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Contact: Anthony Denayer | Av. des Arts 7-8 Kunstlaan, 1210 Brussels | a.denayer@vsf-belgium.org

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