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Dissemination Meeting on Mapped Cross-Border Transhumance Routes, Laws & Conflicts
April 9, 2025 (LODWAR, Kenya) The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development, with the financial support of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) held a dissemination meeting for the assessment reports on latent and active conflicts in cross-border areas and mapped cross-border routes and resources for transhumance livestock and people. Leadership from Kaabong District in Uganda and […]
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Community Dialogue on Cross-Border Resource Sharing between Turkana (Kenya), West Pokot (Kenya) And Karamoja (Uganda): 12, 13, 14 March 2025
March 14, 2025 (MOROTO, Uganda) In collaboration with FAO, and with funding from EU under the Pastoralism & Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme (PLACE), ICPALD engaged communities and leaders from Turkana, West Pokot and Karamoja in a three-day cross-border resource sharing dialogue. The discussions were led by the technical experts from […]
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Validation Meeting for the Assessment Report on Cross-Border People & Livestock Movement
January 29, 2025 (NAIVASHA, Kenya) The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development, with the financial support of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), held a two-day validation meeting for the assessment report on cross-border people and livestock movement. In his opening remarks on behalf of Dr. Dereje Wakjira the ICPALD Director, Animal Health […]
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Regional Workshop for IGAD-MENA Countries
The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) hosted two meetings for IGAD exporting and (Middle East and North Africa) MENA importing countries on July 8-9, 2024, for the private sector and regulatory bodies respectively, at the Best Western Premier Garden Hotel Entebbe. With financial support from FAO/SFE, the meetings aimed to strengthen […]
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Signing of Animal Disease Information Sharing Protocol for Karamoja Cluster
ADDIS ABABA, 18 July 2024 – The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) today signed the animal disease information sharing protocol for Karamoja cluster which covers Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda. Chief Veterinary Officers (CVOs) of the four countries signed the protocol at the ICPALD convened meeting, which was funded by […]
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Seasonal Range Forage Prediction
The cross-border forage prediction model is an important planning and decision support tool aimed at informing the livestock and other relevant sectors on the seasonal outlooks on forage condition. It is also intended to form the basis for tailored advisories for anticipatory action. It covers the Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda borderland areas. […]
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Knowledge Share Fair: IGAD Cross-Border Resilience Programing
Nairobi, 27 May 2024 – The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development hosted a Horn of Africa Regional Knowledge Share Fair, an event that was dedicated to disseminating results of resilience programming, focusing on IGAD’s Karamoja, Moyale and Mandera clusters in the cross-border areas of Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. With financial support from […]
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Launch of Android Based Platform for Cross Border Livestock Marketing
Nairobi, 19 June 2024 – The IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD) launched the livestock marketing App, linked to the IGAD Livestock Marketing Information System (ILMIS). The event convened livestock value chain stakeholders from Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, for a two-day meeting on 18-19 June 2024, in Naivasha-Kenya. The android-based digital platform […]
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Government of Kenya Signing of the Transhumance Protocol
Nairobi, 6 June 2024 – A significant milestone was achieved today in Nairobi as the Republic of Kenya officially signed the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Protocol on Transhumance. This made Kenya the fifth IGAD country to adopt the Protocol. H.E. Dr. Musalia Mudavadi, the Prime Cabinet Secretary and the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and […]
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Gender Inclusive Regional Drylands Forum to Identify Research Priorities
May 14, 2024 (NAIROBI, Kenya) ICPALD funded by the government of Sweden, Ethiopia Embassy – under the Sustainable Ecosystem Management (SEM) project, held a two-day regional meeting on gender inclusive regional drylands forum to identify research priorities for co-creation. The two days’ meeting held in Nairobi on May 13-14, 2024 was officially opened by Dr. […]
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Christine Norah
