BUILDING NEW COOPERATION BETWEEN NOMADIC AND TRANSHUMANT HERDERS AND ACCRA INITIATIVE MEMBER STATES

FUNDING: EUROPEAN UNION EMERGENCY TRUST FUND FOR AFRICA (EUTF FOR AFRICA)

Since September 2020, Promediation has been implementing a regional project supported by the European Union Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF for Africa). This project aims to strengthen regional and national cooperation between representatives of nomadic transhumant herders and the authorities of Accra Initiative member states, including security officials, in order to help curb the spread of insecurity towards the Gulf of Guinea. Indeed, the management of transhumance routes and livestock flows from the livestock-producing countries of the Sahel to the consumer countries of the Gulf of Guinea has become one of the major components of strategies aimed at preventing this spread.

En parallèle à ces réunions régionales, Promediation a conduit des missions de terrain dans les régions transfrontalières entre le Sahel et le Golfe de Guinée afin de mieux en comprendre la situation sécuritaire et pastorale, notamment vis-à-vis des problématiques liées au vol de bétail.

Promediation has placed the facilitation of a negotiation process between Sahelian states and coastal states at the heart of its project, so they can jointly develop new practices to secure transhumance routes. With this aim, Promediation has organized several high-level meetings aimed at strengthening cooperation between security and pastoral actors from the Sahel and the Gulf of Guinea. Through the mobilization of this network, the Project has contributed to creating a political dynamic fostering closer ties between POs [Pastoral Organizations] and authorities for taking pastoral issues into account.