Pastoral Civic Society in East Africa

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What is PCS?

The programme on the Reinforcement of Pastoral Civic Society in East Africa is an “enabling programme” providing an overall strategic framework for pastoral groups, and the organizations that support them, to work together collectively in support of the empowerment of pastoral civic society. The programme builds on the comparative advantages of different players to work simultaneously on three broad fronts:

• Responding to the immediate needs of pastoralists and building local organizational and managerial capacity
• Addressing the “knowledge gap”
• Building political leverage

Working in partnership with a broad range or pastoral civic societies, NGOs, donor development projects, regional organizations, research and teaching institutes, government departments, local government bodies and the media; and commitment to a long-term approach based on an incremental learning process that responds to partners’ needs and changing contexts, are key principles underpinning the programme.