Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

FineResults Research Services would like to invite you to take part in our upcoming workshops on Agricultural courses at our FineResults Research Services training facilities in Nairobi, Kenya or online.

17/03/2025-21/03/2025 Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

19/05/2025-23/05/2025 Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

21/07/2025-25/07/2025 Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

22/09/2025-26/09/2025 Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

08/12/2025-12/12/2025 Enhancing Economic opportunities for resilient pastoral livelihoods

Introduction

Pastoral 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’s 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.

Duration

5 days

Who should attend?

• Field technicians and agricultural extension staff
• Governmental and nongovernmental organizations implementing adaptation projects
• Agricultural extension officers
• Representatives of NGOs
• Private organizations

Course objectives

By the end of the training participants will be able to:

• Learn how to increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
• Understand Livelihood approaches in fragile contexts
• Learn the links between resilience and livelihoods
• Understand resilience pathways and outcomes
• To identify and analyse the key premises underpinning dryland policies, generate arguments and alternative policy options

 

Course content

Module 1: Understanding context of pastoralism

• The dynamics of pastoral systems
• Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relevant to pastoralism
• The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) 2015–2030
• The Paris Climate Agreement.
• Institutions in the country mandated with building resilience of pastoralists and their interventions
• Mitigation strategies and financing mechanisms for pastoralists (e.g livestock take off, livestock insurance etc)
• Four key elements of transformative change in resilience building

Module 2: The policy challenges and options for pastoralism

• Past policy and current reforms and their drivers e.g wildlife, water and range management.
• The national poverty reduction strategies,
• Constraints and opportunities brought by the policy to pastoralists
• identify and analyse the key premises underpinning dryland policies, generate arguments and alternative policy options

Module 3: Resilience dimension measurement

• Wealth index
• Household food insecurity access prevalence (HFIAP)
• Community network/Social capital
• Psychosocial distress
• Livestock
• Infrastructure and social services
• Human capital
• Environment

Livelihood approaches in fragile contexts

• How to increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises
• The links between resilience and livelihoods

Module 4: Advocating for change

• • Identifying key actors, their roles, the policymaking cycle and crucial issues when advocating for change.
  • Actors and stakeholders, and their roles in resilience-building
  • Resilience pathways and outcomes (community and livelihood resilience).
  • Enabling environments’: internal and external factors enabling or obstructing progress.
  • Beneficiaries, equity and inclusion.
  • Synergies between adaptation, mitigation, food security and development
  • Planning for community-based adaptation to climate change in agriculture
• Building resilience.
• Supplying humanitarian assistance.
• Improving livelihoods and increasing local and national stakeholders’ learning, capacity and knowledge around resilience
• The theory of change

Module 5: Determinants of successful adaptation by pastoralists

• Knowledge on impacts and vulnerabilities
• Knowledge on natural resources and socioeconomics and Adaptation options
• Sustained policy support

Community-based adaptation: Underlying principles

• • Essential steps of community based adaptation
  • Assessment of current vulnerability, risks and local livelihoods of population
  • Source of information of climate change (indigenous knowledge and conventional knowledge)

Training Customization

This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can also have it delivered your preferred location.

For further inquiries, please contact us through Mobile: (+254 759 285 295) or Email: [email protected] 

Requirements

Participants should be reasonably proficient in English.  During the trainings, participants should come with their own laptops.

 

Training Fee

Cost:

In-person USD 1200

 

Registration

March in-person/online

May in-person/online

July in-person/online

September in-person/online

December in-person/online

 

Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Services bank account one week prior to the training date and proof of payment sent to [email protected]

For any registration of 3 or more participants; we offer a discount of up to 10%.

This course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits for in-person training.

 

Accommodation

Accommodation is arranged upon request. For reservations contact us through Mobile: (+254 759 285 295) or Email: [email protected] 

 

Payment

Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Limited bank before commencement of training. Send proof of payment through the email: [email protected] 

 

Cancellation Policy

• All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
• Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.

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