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 PFE Publications
something about the publications issued
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PCDP phase II - Enviromental
and Social Management Framework for Community sub-project,
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The Pastoral Community Development
Program is targeted at the pressing development needs
of pastoralists in Ethiopia. It is composed of three
overlapping five-year projects. The first Pastoral Community
Development Project (PCDP I) began in 2003 and is now
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Pastoral organizations' Directory |
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This
directory is prepared by Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia
(PFE). In the effort of realizing its mission, PFE has
prepared this Directory with the objective of strengthening
the network between organizations working around pastoralism.
The directory shows a map of over sixty organizations
working on pastoralism. Download
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A Chapter on Pastoralism 2006 |
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Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia (PFE) has participated in the consultation process to develop A Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP) since Sep. 2005. The Forum has contributed a lot during the First Generation PRSP too. The Chapter on Pastoralism depicted in the SDPRP can be mentioned as the main contribution made on the behalf of the pastoralists.
Cognizant of the less treatment pastoralists have received in the draft PASDEP, PFE consulted its members and based on subsequent consultation of the pastoralists and partners in various fora such as national conferences on pastoral development, pastoralist day, training workshop, and results on previously made PRSP consultation, has developed this CHAPTER ON PASTORALISM to be included in the PASDEP.
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Roundtable on Drought and Famine in Pastoral Regions of Ethiopia
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The current famine that has hit Ethiopia is the third in three decades, in addition to the bi-annual crises of food shortage. This chronic problem has made it necessary for the Forum to ask such questions as: what is there that can be done beyond immediate humanitarian relief? Can the country go on with a contentious famine that claims lives and destroys the meager economic base of its people? The Forum believes that the current drought and the impending famine in the country in general, and in the pastoral regions in particular, calls for debates on the fundamental issues of misconceptions and flaws within the prevailing macro-economic policy.
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Proposed Pastoral Development
Policy Recommendations
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Pastoralists in Ethiopia like in the other African countries have continuously suffered from a long history of political, economical, and socio-cultural mariginalization. The pastoralists problems have been exacerbated by the recurrent and complex natural calamities such as drought, flood, disease etc. Due to both artificial and natural calamities, the pastoralists have emerged as the poorest of the poor. Today, the Federal Government of Ethiopia gives considerable attention reducing pastoral problems. The major policy changes so far include the constitutional right of pastoralists not to be displaced from their own land, and power decentralization to the Regions. The government has recently established Pastoralist Area Development Department (PADD) under the Ministry of Federal Affaires, and has assigned a Pastoral Affairs Standing Committee in the Parliament. In addition, a conference on Pastoral Area Development was launched for the first time in last April 2002. Because of the initiatives of the government to reformulate federal policy on pastoralism and the need to support such changes, Pastoralist Forum Ethiopia (PFE) thus proposes the following pastoral development policy recommendations.
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A Chapter on Pastoralism
2002 |
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The Federal Government of Ethiopia earlier prepared the Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (IPRSP). The Ethiopian IPRSP as it is presented by the government lacks representativeness and mentioned very little about poverty status and mitigation measures of the pastoral community and areas. However, the pastoralists need to have their voices heard and integrated to the center in decision making of national issues through representation including participation in the process of the PRSP. They should benefit from the PRSP, a policy of inclusiveness, consultation, and focus on poverty reduction strategies.
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Third National
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This year, the Third National Conference on Pastoral Development was conducted under the theme pastoralism and sustainable pastoral development from December 23-24, 2004. The aim of the conference was to bring together stakeholders to discuss, debate on selected issues of pastoral development and pass on recommendations. The participants were drawn from Federal Parliament, various government institutions, donors, pastoral communities, embassies, financial institutions (bankers and micro-finance institutions), NGOs, academics, and researchers. The finance institutions attended the conference for the first time. The diversity of the participants in the Conference indicates the growing interest in issues of pastoralism.
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