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Expanding best practices in pastoral areas!

27 January 2010 (No.29)  The Ethiopian Pastoralists Day (EPD) has been celebrated since 1999. It was originally instigated to create awareness about pastoralists, make collective voice to decision making, enhance development works in the area and facilitate experience sharing among pastoralists living in different parts of the country.

Celebrating this day has played significant role as a common platform for pastoralists in building solidarity, enhance development, strengthening stabile lives and fighting against poverty meaningfully.

The 12th EPD was celebrated in Jijiga town of Somali Regional State with various assortments on the 25th and 26th of January 2010 under the theme "Let’s build Ethiopian Renaissance on firm foundation by expanding best practices in pastoral areas."

The various successful development activities in animal husbandry, horticulture, fodder and other areas  throughout the country in general and the pastoral areas in particular need to be scaled up in order to realize sustainable development.

In the 12th Pastoralists Day celebration, about 209 pastoralists and associations were awarded for various successful performances either alleviating poverty or in assisting the pastoral community.

Now that most pastoralists are leading stable life as the government, the people along with their partners have made tremendous efforts in executing various development activities in their vicinity.

Now, they determined to scale up all the best practices in the area so as to alleviate poverty from the entire pastoral community.

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