Pastoralists, Rangelands, Youth, Rights & Finance at UNCCD COP17
For the first time, Pastoralist Goals Foundation came to a UN Convention to speak directly from the experience of pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya.
I came to Ulaanbaatar not only as the Founder and Executive Director of Pastoralist Goals Foundation, but as a pastoralist from the Rendille community in Marsabit. I carried with me the experiences of communities that are frequently discussed in global policy spaces, but are still too rarely present when decisions are being made.
At UNCCD COP17, PGF brought the realities, aspirations and demands of pastoralists into several spaces, the Open Dialogue Session, to conversations with UNESCO and UNDP on pastoralist youth, the World Food Forum and Youth Negotiators Academy, and the Ministerial Dialogue on innovative financial mechanisms for healthy land and drought resilience.