Projects

PAG UK has supported a range of development work in Northeastern Kenya and Gedo region Somalia. For more information you can click on the areas of work below. Our most recent project the Rural Pastoralist Integrated Development Project was funded by Comic Relief.  It was a five year initiative (2004-9) funded under Comic Relief’s Pastoralist Programme.  We completed this project in July 2009. 

See below for more information about our specific project work:

Rights, Peace and Livelihoods is a new project that we are launching in April 2010. It aims to contribute towards achieving sustainable peace, strong customary advocacy/ leadership and securer livelihoods for pastoralists in the border areas of Kenya and Somalia.

Micro-enterprise development schemes are revolving load funds and business training assist agro-pastoralists that are seeking to diversify their livelihoods or boost their incomes by setting up small business's such as beekeeping or livestock marketing.

Community micro-projects benefit a whole community. They are co-funded by PAG on a 50/50 basis. Pastoralist's contribute livestock, which is sold to invest in their project -PAG provides match funding to the same value.  Micro-projects include school contruction, water catchments & community restocking.

Community restocking "will mean that I can go back to the lifestyle that I understand.  After the drought I had become dependent on handouts.  It’s like I had lost my eye sight and everything was dark, then suddenly my eye sight is restored and there is light again”.

Adan Dube, Mandera district, Kenya 2008.

Community animal health care forums are seminars held in rural pastoralist locations provide pastoralists the opportunity to share animal husbandry and production knowledge with their peers and veterinary health care practitioners. Forums are based on a two way flow of knowledge and information and pastoralist knowledge is highly respected.

Peace building in Kenya is being acheived by pastoralist leaders who are combining customary and state governance systems.

Molu Kullu a Gabbra elder discusses with a senior Kenyan official at Koora, Kenya

Resource management, drought response & land rights agreements between governments and traditional pastoral authorities minimise the impact of droughts and other environmental shocks. Pastoralists can then cross borders freely to pasture and water. Social insurance programmes could be developed out of those that already exist within pastoralist societies to soften the blow of sudden disasters.

Pastoralist Education or 'Hanuniye', which is the Somali name given to mobile teachers. It means 'educator and enlightener'. The role of the Hanuniye is to impart basic literacy and numeracy to the family members.  They can also provide veterinary as well as human medical knowledge. The Hanuniye were creative and flexible people that had to respond to the changing and developing needs of the Pastoralists.

Theatre for education about HIV and AIDS is used to engage the community in a subject many find difficult to discuss. TheTawkal theatre team and community facilitators bridge-build between the community and local clinics to help people to access the services that are available and put pressure on their local government to provide services that are lacking