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Pastoralist Integrated Support Programme (a national local Non-Governmental Organization based in the Marsabit District of northern Kenya) was initiated in 1996 in collaboration with pastoral communities and their traditional Ya’a councils (which govern the social/cultural aspects of the wider Gabbra community) to reduce nomadic household poverty by establishing sustainable water access within the District.
In recent years, PISP has extended its work to the other ethnic groups within Marsabit, including the Rendille, Turkana, Borana and Samburu.Together, PISP and the local communities seek to strengthen resource management and the pastoral economic system by promoting community empowerment which is enhancing livelihoods and strengthening social well-being. To date, this unique partnership has led to an increase in community self-reliance, and a beginning to the end of a vicious cycle of poverty and despair that exists in the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) of northern Kenya
Partners
- Africa Oil Corporation
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Caritas Austria
- Catholic Organization for Relief and Development Aid
- Community Development Trust Fund
- Department of Foreign International Aid
- European Commission Humanitarian Organization
- Food & Agricultural Organization
- HelpAge International
- International Institute for Rural Reconstruction
- Japanese embassy in Kenya
- Kenya Community Development Foundation
- Kenyan Goverment
- Netherlands Development Organisation
- Oxfam GB
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations International Children’s Education Fund
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs