{"id":176757,"date":"2021-01-07T16:21:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/enhancing-economic-opportunities-for-resilient-pastoral-livelihoods\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:21:48","slug":"enhancing-economic-opportunities-for-resilient-pastoral-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/enhancing-economic-opportunities-for-resilient-pastoral-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Economic Opportunities For Resilient Pastoral Livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enhancing Economic Opportunities For Resilient Pastoral Livelihoods<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Africa Event on 2021-01-18 08:30:00<\/i><\/p>\n

Introduction
\nPastoral livestock production is practiced in an estimated area of 43% percent of Africa land mass in different regions of Africa by an estimate of 268 million pastoralists. Pastoralism plays an important role in the national and regional economies of Africa in terms of export of animals to both domestic and international markets. Furthermore, pastoralism contributes a percentage of 10 to 44 of the gross domestic product (GDP) of African countries. Despite the significant impact of pastoralism to livelihoods, economy of Africa\u2019s drylands, GDP and exports sector, pastoralists are faced with various challenges including climate change and climate variability, increasing risk of animal and zoonotic diseases, insecure land rights and natural resource management, violence, displacement and militarisation of pastoral livelihood systems and neglect and exclusion of pastoralist communities among other challenges. One of the key intervention to ensure sustainable livelihoods of pastoralist is focus on building resilience to mitigate effects of climate change. Resilience is being understood in terms of building different types of capacity within communities and social-ecological systems. Building resilience of vulnerable communities to the vagaries of climate change calls for more transformative approaches that can organically evolve to suit the dynamic and unique needs of different farming systems. This 5- days course aim to equip participants with knowledge of empowering pastoralist in building resilience to mitigate effects of climate change.
\nDuration
\n5 days
\nWho should attend?
\n\u2022 Field technicians and agricultural extension staff
\n\u2022 Governmental and nongovernmental organizations implementing adaptation projects
\n\u2022 Agricultural extension officers
\n\u2022 Representatives of NGOs
\n\u2022 Private organizations
\nCourse objectives
\nBy the end of the training participants will be able to:
\n\u2022 Learn how to increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
\n\u2022 Understand Livelihood approaches in fragile contexts
\n\u2022 Learn the links between resilience and livelihoods
\n\u2022 Understand resilience pathways and outcomes
\n\u2022 To identify and analyse the key premises underpinning dryland policies, generate arguments and alternative policy options<\/p>\n

Course content
\nModule 1: Understanding context of pastoralism
\n\u2022 The dynamics of pastoral systems
\n\u2022 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant to pastoralism
\n\u2022 The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015\u20132030
\n\u2022 The Paris Climate Agreement.
\n\u2022 Institutions in the country mandated with building resilience of pastoralists and their interventions
\n\u2022 Mitigation strategies and financing mechanisms for pastoralists (e.g livestock take off, livestock insurance etc)
\n\u2022 Four key elements of transformative change in resilience building<\/p>\n

Module 2: The policy challenges and options for pastoralism
\n\u2022 Past policy and current reforms and their drivers e.g wildlife, water and range management.
\n\u2022 The national poverty reduction strategies,
\n\u2022 Constraints and opportunities brought by the policy to pastoralists
\n\u2022 identify and analyse the key premises underpinning dryland policies, generate arguments and alternative policy options
\nModule 3: Resilience dimension measurement
\n\u2022 Wealth index
\n\u2022 Household food insecurity access prevalence (HFIAP)
\n\u2022 Community network\/Social capital
\n\u2022 Psychosocial distress
\n\u2022 Livestock
\n\u2022 Infrastructure and social services
\n\u2022 Human capital
\n\u2022 Environment
\nLivelihood approaches in fragile contexts
\n\u2022 How to increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
\n\u2022 The links between resilience and livelihoods
\nModule 4: Advocating for change
\n\u2022 Identifying key actors, their roles, the policymaking cycle and crucial issues when advocating for change.
\n\u2022 Actors and stakeholders, and their roles in resilience-building
\n\u2022 Resilience pathways and outcomes (community and livelihood resilience).
\n\u2022 Enabling environments\u2019: internal and external factors enabling or obstructing progress.
\n\u2022 Beneficiaries, equity and inclusion.
\n\u2022 Synergies between adaptation, mitigation, food security and development
\n\u2022 Planning for community-based adaptation to climate change in agriculture
\n\uf0fc\uf0a0Building resilience.
\n\uf0fc\uf0a0Supplying humanitarian assistance.
\n\uf0fc\uf0a0Improving livelihoods and increasing local and national stakeholders\u2019 learning, capacity and knowledge around resilience
\n\u2022 The theory of change<\/p>\n

Module 5: Determinants of successful adaptation by pastoralists
\n\u2022 Knowledge on impacts and vulnerabilities
\n\u2022 Knowledge on natural resources and socioeconomics and Adaptation options
\n\u2022 Sustained policy support<\/p>\n

Community-based adaptation: Underlying principles
\n\u2022 Essential steps of community based adaptation
\n\u2022 Assessment of current vulnerability, risks and local livelihoods of population
\n\u2022 Source of information of climate change (indigenous knowledge and conventional knowledge)<\/p>\n

at FineResults Research Services<\/a>
\nWestlands, Off Church rd
\nNairobi, Kenya<\/p>\n

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