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MOVE.: The Pastoralism and Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme Update

#PLACE Issue 1: 2025











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    Pastoralism and Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme (PLACE) 2024
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    The PLACE programme aims to address the challenges faced in developing sustainable, climate-resilient pastoral systems in eastern Africa through a more comprehensiveand integrated pastoral value chain approach. The project will be implemented in four cross-border cluster areas: Bahr el-Arab, Karamoja, Mandera and Mara-Serengeti Clusters, and covering seven countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Implementation will focus on improving the livelihoods of pastoral communities, including those at risk of displacement, with the goal of reducing economic migration and displacement caused by climate change.
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    Regional Programme in Livestock and Pastoralism for Climate Change Adaptation in Eastern/Horn of Africa
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    2024
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    Livestock is considered a key livelihood source in the Horn of Africa region. According to theIntergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), it ‘constitutes a major economic, social andcultural facet of life for over 250 million people 3in the region. Pastoralists constitute a large part oflivestock keepers. They undertake livestock keeping not only as a commercial enterprise but also as asocial investment that cannot solely be assessed economically or financially. Pastoralists haveprovided, over centuries, ecosystem services that are difficult to convert into commercial values, withthese intangible values comprising of many interrelated cultural and environmental benefits.However, the practice of pastoralism is also seen to be at a critical juncture. Concurrently, it isestimated that at least 10 million livestock have died as a direct consequence of the severe pastdrought in 2022. At the same time, societal shifts in the region mean that fewer young people areinterested in what is traditionally considered as the pastoral lifestyle.
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    Enabling Parliamentarian Action to Ending Hunger and Malnutrition in Eastern Africa - TCP/SFE/3703 2022
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    Food insecurity and malnutrition remain major public health and socio economic development challenges in Africa, most particularly in Eastern Africa subregion Close to half of the total undernourished population of the African continent resides in Eastern Africa approximately 28 million people in the subregion are severely food insecure according to recent data The critical role of Members of Parliament ( in advancing national and regional food and nutrition agendas makes them important partners in achieving food and nutrition security in Eastern Africa subregion Building on global and regional momentum to mobilize MPs in the fight to end hunger and malnutrition, FAO and the Pan African Parliament ( signed a memorandum of understanding MoU for the establishment of a PAP alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (PAPA FSN) in 2016 At a subsequent meeting, held in Kigali in 2017 commitments were made to establish national Parliamentary Alliances for Food and Nutrition Security in Djibouti, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda The agenda of this meeting focused on the role of lawmakers in ensuring Food Security and Nutrition ( and the importance of MPs’ support to ending hunger and malnutrition in the subregion This resulted in MPs’ further commitment to forming a subregional platform to promote learning and experience sharing Participating MPs also called on continuous support from FAO in their efforts to establish and operationalize national and regional alliances Events such as the Global Parliamentary Summit against Hunger and Malnutrition and the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture ( Biennial Conference, both held in 2018 continued to strengthen commitments by MPs to intensify their efforts to fight hunger in a transformational way For example, the Global Parliamentary Summit invited Parliaments where parliamentary alliances against hunger and malnutrition do not exist, to create them and to strengthen them as a political commitment and to contribute to achieving a world free from hunger in 2030 This project, which was developed upon request of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development ( supports the formation of parliamentarian alliances in Eastern African countries and builds the capacity of parliamentarians to advocate, generate political commitment, strengthen legislative and policy environments and improve budget allocation for FSN issues.

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