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    Educating nomadic herders out of poverty?: response to Saverio Krätli's World Bank paper

    Save the Children Fund, 2001
    This article poses several questions, which the author contends underpin discussions concerning pastoralism and education:who should decide what kind of lives people should lead?what is the prerequisite for people to be able to have a choice in deciding their own lives?could education have anything to do with this?This report is critical of Kratli's report for:f
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    Delivery of Animal Health Services in Eastern Africa: Proceedings of a workshop held in Arusha, Tanzania, December 1998

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    The paper examines the sustainability of privatised community animal health services (CAHS) for remote areas in East Africa.
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    Community based animal health services in the greater horn of Africa: an assessment

    Institutional and Policy Support Team, AU, 1998
    An assessment of two OFDA funded community based animal health worker (CAHW) projects which found that:The sustainability of CAHW development relies on the degree of integrity of financial management of drug inputs and a satisfactory remuneration for the individual CAHW's.Financial transactions through private sector channels without the involvement of committeesor associations were mo
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    Educating nomadic herders out of poverty?: culture, education and poverty in Turkana and Karamoja

    World Bank, 2001
    This research article was carried out under the umbrella of the Learning and Research Program on Culture and Poverty of the World Bank.
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    Supporting pastoral associations in Wajir: a manual for development practitioners

    Oxfam, 2000
    This manual was written in order to capture the wide body of knowledge and experience on development of Pastoral Associations which has emerged in Wajir (Kenya).This manual aims to:serve as a comprehensive ‘one stop’ reference on practical aspects of assisting PA formation and working with PAsshare experience and best practice for use by development practitioners in Wajir and other
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    Land, people and forests in Eastern and Southern Africa: a study of the impact of land relations upon community involvement in forest future

    Land Rights in Africa, Oxfam, 2000
    Examines the relationship of people’s rights in land to the manner in which they may be involved in the management of forests in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Lesotho and to a lesser degree Botswana and Swaziland.Includes examination of property relations, state power, land reform, recognition of customary rights, the changing nature o
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    Enclosure if the East African rangelands: recent trends and their impact

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1988
    This article discusses the enclosure of rangelands and registration of exclusive rights to grazing by individuals or groups of pastoralists. This trend has been increasing greatly over the last twenty years. This occurs because:it is encouraged by governments, planners and multi-lateral donor agencies in an attempt to 'rationalise'the use of rangelands.
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    Oxfam's Kenya restocking projects

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1988
    The four projects described in this paper were all aimed at "restocking" destitute pastoralists in the very dry areas of northern Kenya (in Wajir, Isiolo, Samburu and Turkana districts).The approach adopted was to supply each recipient household with a nucleus herd of smallstock (mostly female goats) sufficient it was hoped for each family's continued livelihood.
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    Gambling with goats: variability in herd growth among restocked pastoralists in Kenya

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1989
    The growth of individual, north Kenyan, pastoralist families' herds of smallstock, given to them in restocking schemes, is followed over several years. Very poor families given similar herds at the start of the project showed great variation in herd sizes by the end of the period analysed.
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    Restocking pastoralists in Kenya: a strategy for relief and rehabilitation

    Pastoral Development Network, ODI, 1985
    The prevailing orthodoxy is that destitution in pastoral areas is the inevitable result of an overloaded pastoral system, caused by:human population increasean ecologically unwise dependence on milk in a country where milk production should not be attemptedtraditional range management practicesIn this view the only solution to destitution is for pastoralists to keep less li

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