East Africa Solidarity Platform (EASPO) is a 4-year project funded by The Christensen Fund (TCF) running through to 2023 and is implemented in 2 Phases in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania). Phase 1 was implemented in 2020 to 2021 whereas phase 2 preceded in 2021 and will run through to 2023. The project purpose is to facilitate dialogues, learning, promote knowledge transfer and establishment of a Community of Practice (CoP) to advance technical contribution to policy and legislation in East Africa. In the expected broader scale, the project shall also enable the development of tools to guide, coordinate and fast-track the documentation and registration of pastoralists land rights through the ongoing registration of community lands in Kenya. RECONCILE as the coordinator of Rangelands Initiative Africa, is using this to provide broader opportunities for contributing to the securing of the tenure rights for pastoralists as rangeland users. In doing so, the project addresses knowledge gap, power imbalance and week community structures being experienced in the registration of community lands in pastoral areas.
The second phase of the project shall now upscale the application of the outputs from phase one by supporting the community of practice members through their affiliate institutions to develop further the defined thematic study areas and apply this information at the community, national and regional levels.