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Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas (RELPA) Program

Link to RELPA Support Documents

 | Tuesday, June 19, 2007

The Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas (RELPA) Program is designed to increase household incomes and economic resiliency of the population living in the pastoral regions, reduce their requirements for emergency assistance, and set the conditions by which the pastoral areas of the Horn of Africa can participate in a broader process of social and economic development.

The RELPA Program will provide a bridge between emergency relief assistance and activities that promote economic development in pastoral areas. At the heart of this proposed Activity is a will on the part of donors, governments and the affected populations to change the paradigm of how the development challenge in arid and semi-arid areas is addressed.

The RELPA Program consists of four complementary and coordinated Activities, each with its own Sub-activities. The four RELPA Activities are:

1.       COMESA Secretariat Support: Pastoral Areas Policy Engagement ;

2.      Pastoral Areas Coordination, Analysis, and Policy Support (PACAPS) Activity under the COMESA umbrella, which will include a Regional Coordination and Analysis Sub-activity working with COMESA;

3.       Enhanced Livelihoods in the Mandera Triangle (ELMT): On-the-Ground activities; and

4.       OFDA support to emergency response activities in the greater Mandera Triangle region.  

Click here for links to RELPA Support Documents including information on CAADP, Early Warning Harmonization, the HIU Humanitarian Info Unit, Livelihoods, Livestock Marketing, Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, the State of Pastoralism, Tracking Strategy, USAID/East Africa and General information.