Kenya: OCHA Pastoralist Voices

19 February 2010, ReliefWeb
URL: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/SKEA-82SKEE?OpenDocument

Pastoralists across the Horn and East Africa have called for support for secured and facilitated cross border movement for access of water and pasture as a drought response strategy in many forums organized by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA). They argue that such facilitated movement will reduce the loss of lives and livelihoods from cross-border mobility in the region.

An on-going collaboration between UN-OCHA, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is taking this concern forward through the Security in Mobility project. The inter-agency project promotes pastoralists' internal and cross-border mobility needs as a climate change adaptation. And it also advocates for regional cross-border security needs to be reconciled with pastoralists livelihood needs.

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