• Conflict prevention

Conflict prevention

This project deals with improving pastoral risk management on East African rangelands.

This project attempts to strengthen pastoralists' risk management strategies and practices this includes:

• asset diversification
• income diversification
• increased access to information
• increased access to external resources

Geographically the project is focused on southern Ethiopia and north-central Kenya.

The project's priorities include:

• improvements in rural financial systems, marketing networks and education to allow more opportunistic diversification of livestock and human capita
• improvements in the flow and capture of information to enhance efficiency in marketing and resource allocation
• facilitation of conflict mitigation and problem-solving concerning natural resource tenure
• comparative evaluation of development investment options for various types of infrastructure, key institutions, or programs to improve pastoral risk management throughout the region