Assessing Pastoral Land Use Planning, Extension Services Systems & Opportunities in the Greater HoA

I would like to express my gratitude to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for funding the “Building Resilient Market Systems in the Cross-border Drylands of the IGAD Region Program’’ that supported this study. Many thanks go to the IGAD Centre for Pastoral Area and Livestock Development (ICPALD), particularly, Dr. Ameha Sebsibe, Head of Livestock and Fisheries and Dr. Wamalwa Kinyanjui for their immense assistance and patience. Furthermore, many thanks go to Ahmed Mohamoud for supporting the face-to-face interactions with experts.

Above all, greatest appreciation goes to all colleagues, particularly Dr. Adan Bika and Bogale Abebe who accompanied the consultant to the feld and made his stay comfortable. Sincere gratitude tothemost-friendly expert felddrivers thatincludedPeterAtubu,Edwin Chege, Bosco Mugendi and Mesay Zewdu for making it possible to navigate the very diffcult landscapes in pursuit of data for this report.

Honest thanks also to all respondents, organizations and institutions (in appendix) that enabled the production of this report through all its multiple stages.

I would most especially like to acknowledge rangeland users in their efforts to improve rangeland management and their generosity in sharing their valuable expertise.