ICPALD News

May 22, 2025 (JIGJIGA, Ethiopia) With funding from the Government of Switzerland under the Regional Livestock Program (RLP) ICPALD convened the Ethiopia-Somalia joint planning for surveillance and vaccination calendar against TADs and launch of the synchronized vaccination calendar. Present were delegates from the Governments of Ethiopia and Somalia, Representatives from…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…