Pastoral Civil Society Quarterly Newsletter of RECONCILE/IIED Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa Issue No. 1 January - March 2003

Document begins: Pastoral Civil Society Quarterly Newsletter of RECONCILE/IIED Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa Issue No. 1 January - March 2003 Editorial We are pleased to present you the inaugural issue of Pastoral Civil Society, the quarterly newsletter of the Programme on Reinforcement of Pastoral Civil Society in East Africa implemented jointly by Resource Conflict Institute (RECONCILE) and the Drylands Programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). For more information on the programme see the summary at the end of the issue. Through this newsletter we will keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the programme, give you summary information on what partners are doing with respect to pastoral development in East Africa and keep you informed of key pastoral policy issues as they arise. But to do this effectively we need your help! So please do send us any information on pastoral issues which you think would interest others. Another idea is to do a short profile on a pastoral civil society organisations and persons in every issue. So if you want others to get to know you, get in touch so we can discuss how best to proceed. We ...