IGAD Centre for Pastoral Areas and Livestock Development - ICPALD

📍Marsabit, Kenya |🗓️14 May 2026

Event: Launch of the synchronized cross-border against priority , such as (PPR), along the Ethiopia–Kenya border.

The vaccination launch on the Kenyan side took place in Sololo, Marsabit County. This exercise targets a total of 2 million livestock in Moyale & North Horr Sub-Counties.

**launch funded by AfDB under Building Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security (BREFONS) project

Event: Launch of the synchronized cross-border against priority , such as (PPR), along the Ethiopia–Kenya border.

The launch took place today in Ilamu and Boku Luboma Kebeles, Miyo District, Borana zone in Ethiopia, targeting 300,000 livestock.

This kicks off the extended exercise which projects to vaccinate a total of 5 million livestock (camels, cattle, goats, sheep) by the end of June 2026, in various districts bordering Kenya. These districts are Miyo, Moyale, Dhire, Dillo and Teltele.

**launch funded by AfDB under Building Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security (BREFONS) project

📍Asayita, Ethiopia |🗓️12-14 May 2026

has convened a meeting to establish a functional sub-national coordination committee and build their capacity to strengthen governance and coordination of pastoralism and transhumance in border areas of Afar region-Ethiopia (Dikhil Cluster).

The forum brings together the Afar Region community and government stakeholders to strengthen cross-border coordination, peaceful pastoral mobility & regional collaboration.

The meeting will:
1⃣Identify existing sub-national government agencies, partner institutions & community leadership structures responsible for pastoral development.
2⃣Establish & formalize gender inclusive sub-national coordination committees.
3⃣Sensitize committee members on components of cross-border governance & the IGAD Transhumance Protocol.
4⃣Deliberate on cross-border transhumance challenges, solutions and tracking system, in line with the Protocol.

**funded by the EU

📍Moyale, Ethiopia-Kenya |🗓️12-14 May 2026

Ethiopia & Kenya, are jointly operationalizing their bilateral cross-border cooperation agreement on animal health & sanitary measures in the IGAD Cluster 2.

The cross-border event focuses on harmonized surveillance, synchronized vaccination, outbreak response, livestock mobility, SPS compliance & safer cross-border livestock trade.

A key milestone of this event will be the launch of synchronized cross-border vaccination on both the Ethiopia & Kenya bordering districts in the next two days. The exercise is expected to continue for two months, demonstrating the two countries’ shared commitment on coordinated transboundary animal disease (TADs) prevention & control.

This initiative contributes to improved animal health, stronger bilateral cooperation, enhanced livestock trade facilitation, and regional progress towards the control & eradication of priority TADs, including PPR.

**funded by AfDB under Building Resilience to Food and Nutrition Security (BREFONS) project

📍Moyale, Kenya | 🗓️ 29 April 2026

Building on earlier community engagements which focused on co-learning, dialogue and co-production of risk knowledge, ICPALD under the PASSAGE Project has convened a community engagement, in Moyale cluster, to deepen the evidence base supporting locally led anticipatory action.

📸: Key informant consultations with stakeholders from Moyale cluster, to better understand various indicators used by the communities to monitor & predict climate patterns and lead times (time lapse between when the indicator is observed and the climatic event occurs).



**funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) /Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

📍Naivasha, Kenya | 🗓️28 - 29 April 2026

ICPALD has convened a regional workshop to review progress in implementing Regional Livestock Program (RLP) supported livestock policies and strategies at national and sub-national levels.

The meeting intends to strengthen stakeholder coordination and harmonization of key policies, enhance implementation, track progress and identifying priority actions for improved livestock trade, and management across the region.

This forum brings together IGAD Member States and RLP implementing partners to assess achievements, address gaps, and strengthen coordinated action amongst the RLP implementing member states and across livestock trade corridors.

*funded by The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation through RLP

📍Puntland, Somalia | 🗓️15 - 17 April 2026

Technical Support Mission to Somali Livestock Export Quarantine and Inspection in Puntland, Somalia.

ICPALD in collaboration with the Federal Government of Somalia, conducted a technical mission to the newly established Somali Livestock Export Quarantine and Inspection Center (Som Quarantine) in Puntland, Somalia.

The mission assessed infrastructure and operations against the harmonized IGAD regional & international SPS standards, provided guidance on quarantine management & certification, reviewed compliance with GCC market requirements and identified key gaps with actionable recommendations for full operationalization.

With a holding capacity of 150,000 animals, the facility is poised to export certified cattle, camels, sheep and goats to and Southeast Asian markets upon approval.

ICPALD also facilitated engagement of the quarantine management with MENA partners. This led to a successful assessment, by the delegation of regulatory bodies from the Sultanate of Oman, for approval of animal export to the country.

**funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through the Regional Livestock Program (RLP)

Policy Dialogue on the Signing and Ratification of Transhumance Protocol by the Republic of Uganda

Afternoon discussions were centred on:

1⃣Understanding Uganda’s position on the Adoption, Signing & Ratification of the Protocol
2⃣Provisions, implications & benefits of implementing the Protocol to Uganda
3⃣Experiences from cross-border livestock mobility, pastoral dynamics, bottlenecks & Uganda’s policy direction
4⃣Unlocking the marginalized communities’ potential among others

At plenary, policy makers' emphasized the need for effective domestication, applicable & practical implementation of the Transhumance Protocol, with special consideration for mutual interest, benefit & security of pastoralists and their livestock within the IGAD region.

📍Entebbe, Uganda | 🗓️14 - 15 April 2026

Event: Policy Dialogue on Signing & Ratification of the Transhumance Protocol by the Republic of Uganda

ICPALD through the Pastoralism & Livestock Adaptation to Climate Change in Eastern Africa Programme (PLACE) is convening key experts from Government of Uganda and Social Partners on the development and implementation of a Roadmap to fast-track the Signing and Ratification of the IGAD Protocol on .

IGAD’s Head of Mission to Uganda, Joselyn Bigirwa, on behalf of IGAD Executive Secretary, extended her appreciation to the Government of Uganda for their full participation in consultations and development of the Protocol since 2017. She called on the experts to advocate for the Signing and Ratification by Uganda in order for it to be domesticated and implemented.

The meeting was officiated by Dr. Edith Namutebi Nsubuga of Government of Uganda and other keynote speakers from Committees Forum and Agriculture, Animal & Fisheries who reiterated the importance of the Protocol to allow free, safe & orderly cross-border mobility of transhumant livestock and herders in search of pasture and water as an adaptation mechanism to climate change and weather variability within the IGAD region.

The Signing and Ratification process is with the support of EU through the IGAD-ILO-EU Action. PLACE Project is an EU funded partnership with FAO to strengthen advocacy and implementation the Transhumance Protocol, and resilience of pastoralists in Eastern Africa.

📢RVF ALERT!

IGAD & FAO warn of urgent need to strengthen rift valley fever (RVF) preparedness in Eastern Africa due to the torrential rainfall over the past weeks, combined with the forecasted above-average rainfall for April–May which elevates the risk of outbreaks.

👉🏾Read more:https://icpald.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RVF.pdf

📍Wajir, Kenya | 🗓️ 8 - 10 April 2026

ICPALD, under the PASSAGE Project, in collaboration with NDMA, has convened an engagement to pilot community-led drought risk narratives for the Somali Cluster.

The initiative brings together communities, technical experts & local authorities to co-produce impact-based advisories by integrating scientific forecasts with local knowledge to support timely (AA).

This engagement strengthens community capacity to interpret early warning information, refine locally relevant advisories & enhance coordination for early action, which supports scaling of locally led AA and strengthens across pastoral communities.



**funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) /Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)