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IGAD Supervises Road Clearance & Grain Store Rehabilitation to Strengthen Livelihoods in Karamoja Cross-Border Region
June 30 – July 4, 2025 (Kaabong District, Uganda): IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development (ICPALD), is conducting a mission in Kaabong District, Uganda, to supervise and document the clearance of the Usake–Newkuch road and rehabilitation of a grain storage facility. These activities are part of the Sustainable Ecosystem Management (SEM) Project, supported […]
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FAO and IGAD Alert for Eastern Africa to Increase Vigilance for Rift Valley Fever
RVF is an endemic vector-borne zoonotic disease that represents a threat to human, animal health and livestock in Eastern Africa region. The epidemiology of RVF is complex, making monitoring of risk and carrying out efficient and timely control measures challenging. To increase knowledge on RVF epidemiology and inform disease management policies, FAO has developed and […]
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Ethiopia-Somalia Joint Planning for Surveillance and Vaccination Calendar Against Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) and Launch of Synchronized Vaccination Program: 20, 21, 22 May 2025
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 Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock, […]
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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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Christine Norah
