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Our Activities
PENHA seeks to reduce poverty and marginalisation among pastoralist communities through the following activities:
- capacity building, training and education delivery for pastoralist communities with consideration of gender equality
- providing also training to relevant local NGOs and CBOs, line ministries etc to improve the effectiveness of service delivery for pastoralist communities.
- establishing fora for pastoralist communities as a base for their social empowerment
- Creating small-income generating and micro-credit opportunities and facilitating market links for pastoralists
- action-oriented research that also enhances the utilisation of indigenous expertise.
- awareness rising and lobbying of pastoralist issues to positively change broad perceptives that pastoralism is an acient way of life that collides with current development efforts
- publishing research findings, reports and books, and distributing these widely among relevant stakeholders including policy makers as an important tool of awareness rising towards pastoralist issues.
- networking with related organisations, ministries, the academia and other stakeholders for the exchange of information, experience and ideas on pastoralist issues
Ongoing Activities in the Region
For more information on PENHA activities in each country please click on the country links at the left side of this page.
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What's New
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Recent Staff Research Activities
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