PAG Partners
EPAG Kenya
EPAGK is the Pastoralist Assistance Group's main sister partner. EPAG K is a local Kenya NGO supported by the Pastoralist Assistance Group and Comic Relief to work with pastoralists in Mandera District Kenya and Gedo Region Somalia on economic development, livelihood security and land/ resource rights. Project work includes business training, community livestock redistribution, peace-building, drought contingency planning, nomadic education and political advocacy work.
Read more about project work here.
EPAG-K has a 'Somali-style' co-operative management structure that includes representatives from the traditional pastoralist leaders in the area. There are currently 33 Kenyan/Somali employees. We support EPAG Kenya by providing guidance, organisational development, new knowledge, fundraising and back-up.
Read more about EPAG Kenya here.
Nomadic
Nomadic is a local NGO supporting pastoralist education and advocacy in Wajir district, Northeastern Kenya. Nomadic is one of PAG UK & Kenya’s local partners. They deliver pastoralist education work funded by Comic Relief through PAG UK.
Nomadic adopt an approach to pastoralist education that stems from the belief that pastoralists are knowledgeable, their livelihood system is productive and their culture is linked to their relationship with their religion, their animals and their environment.
The essential issues that have been raised by pastoralists in terms of supporting pastoralist education is that the curriculum of any teaching is linked to their lifestyle and culture, that the subjects are useful to them as pastoralists and that teaching fits into their daily schedules and seasonal patterns of mobility.
The Pastoralist Shade Initiative
The Pastoralist Shade Initiative, (PSI) is a Kenyan non-governmental organisation. It was registered in 2008. It is also constituted according to traditional law. Thirteen elders make up the Board that comprises nine pastoralist tribes:
Gabra, Borana, Rendille, Maasai, Turkana, Somali, Orma, Samburu and Pokot.
They are working together to secure peace and deal with politically instigated violence and crime in Kenya through promoting the use of customary law and inter-communal dialogue in co-operation with state institutions.
Their aim is to create conditions that stimulate the economy, encourage investment and give a decent future to their children.