Resilient Pastoralism:Towards Sustainable Futures in Rangelands

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leicester
Department Name: Geography

Abstract

This project focuses on the challenges of building resilience in pastoralist communities, with reference to case study countries of Kenya & Mongolia, & to other countries in the Global South, through global pastoralist networks. Through integrating newly available remote sensing (RS) datasets, with innovative approaches & methodologies for understanding cultural dimensions, meanings & practices of resilience & evaluating barriers to research uptake & data needs of both pastoralist & policy communities, we will lay the foundations for real transformations in pastoral resilience. This is vital not only for pastoralist communities' livelihoods, but for realisation of current national economic development plans & aspirations. In order to realise our project's goals we bring together an interdisciplinary team which combines expertise in remote sensing techniques; rangeland management; socio-economics & governance of pastoralism; assessment of risk & hazard; human-environment relations in rangelands; & cultural geographies & anthropologies of pastoralism.
The wider context for this work is the importance of pastoralism as a central livelihood strategy for some 500 million people worldwide, typically in marginal dryland environments highly susceptible to climate change & who often number amongst the most vulnerable communities. Enhanced understandings of pastoral livelihoods & resilience are also central to contemporary global development priorities, as emphasised by UNEA (2016) resolution on sustainable pastoralism & by donors' positioning of contemporary pastoralism as essential to achievement of Africa 2063 as well as UN 2030 Development Agendas (FAO, 2016).
Specific challenges & issues include the lack of attention to culturally specific meanings, practices & priorities around pastoral resilience, & the linked challenge of a lack of engagement & uptake of previous research & datasets by pastoralist communities & policy-makers. There are thus marked challenges in knowledge exchange, communication & translation, which hinder local development of culturally meaningful & effective resilience & policy support for this. There is also a lack of understanding of why this is the case, in other words of what stakeholders want that is not being delivered, & how can this be addressed. Our objectives are thus i) to provide new understandings of pastoral resilience from genuinely interdisciplinary & local/indigenous perspectives; ii) to derive comparative insights into pastoral resilience across diverse countries & pastoral systems; iii) to examine & test ways to enhance relevance & uptake of datasets & outputs, including through examination of newly available remote sensing datasets & iv) through attention to cultural meanings & contexts of resilience, histories & understandings of human-nature relationships, & innovative methods, integrated with new RS datasets, to enhance understanding of barriers to & thus to enhance uptake of research data in the future, supporting positive/locally desirable dimensions of resilience.
Through realisation of these objectives, our work will benefit local pastoralist communities, through enhanced understanding & provision of data & knowledge exchange to support resilience. For policymakers, donors & NGOs our work will provide clear guidance on the information needs & requirements of pastoral communities, barriers to uptake of research outputs & how these can be overcome; policymakers will also benefit from working with the project team on application of results to specific development policies & agendas pertinent to enhanced pastoral livelihoods in the future. For all beneficiaries, but especially academics, donors & NGOs implementing work on pastoral resilience, they will benefit from the new methods & interdisciplinary approaches trialled & developed during this project. The project will also make important contributions to ongoing debates across the natural & social sciences, arts & humanities.

Planned Impact

The activities of this project impact on a range of both non-academic and academic users and over a range of timescales. Non-academic users will primarily be: members of pastoralist communities, who are seeking to enhance their own resilience in the context of natural and manmade risks: pastoralist/ rural development NGOs who are seeking to support their constituents in these efforts; and policymakers who need to find more effective ways to support the pastoral sector in order to achieve national economic development and welfare goals.
Beneficiaries and end users are already enrolled in the project as partners and will facilitate links to further beneficiaries and end users, namely specific pastoralist communities, as part of the initial and final workshops, and in the fieldwork. These will also be facilitated by the extensive networks with pastoral communities of the project PI and CO-Is, both in the UK and in-country and of the Project Partner organisations. Further engagement with pastoralist NGOs and pastoralist communities worldwide will be achieved through the World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism (WISP) network. Policymakers as end users and beneficiaries will be engaged through initial consultations in the data gathering phase, invited attendance at project workshops, participation as key informants in fieldwork and through project outputs.
The project is designed to realise significant impact on the above user groups through the following activities, 1) development and testing of a new framework for understanding pastoral resilience, 2) development of innovative methods for investigating the cultural meanings of resilience, 3) testing ways in which to exploit newly available remote sensing datasets to enhance uptake and improve relevance of environmental hazard information supplied to pastoral communities, 4) enhanced understanding of barriers to uptake and methods for effective communicate of the results to end users.
The pathways to impact will be through workshops, project reports, policy briefings and outputs in the form of sample datasets for local communities and policy makers.
As a result of this work, academics in this and related fields, NGO users and policy makers will benefit from 1) a new 'pastoral resilience' framework for understanding the integrated drivers of risk and human, cultural and environmental aspects of resilience; 2) for pastoralist communities and NGOs, an understanding of the type of information that can now be made available to them from satellites on rangeland condition and how this can be linked to and interpreted through cultural meanings of and priorities for resilience; 3) for both pastoralists and policymakers, an understanding of the potential for the above to inform decision-making and response to climatic, ecosystem and human induced land-use changes; 4) clear guidance for policymakers and donors/ NGOs on the information needs and requirements of pastoral communities, barriers to uptake of research outputs and how these can be overcome; 5) for government policymakers, they will derive benefit through working with the project team on application of project results to specific policies and development agendas. For all beneficiaries, but especially academics, donors and NGOs implementing work on pastoral resilience, they will benefit from the new methods and interdisciplinary approaches trialled and developed during this project.
 
Description This project, through multi disciplinary approaches developed in our new research network, has provided new insights into place-based meanings of, aspirations for and pathways to resilience amongst pastoralist communities in our case study sites in Kenya and Mongolia. Although only a short foundation building project with limited opportunities for fieldwork, we have nonetheless shown the diversity and importance of these meanings, aspirations and also barriers to 'resilience', as experienced by participating pastoralists on a daily basis and in shaping their daily practices. In doing so we challenge normative understandings of the 'resilience' concept. We demonstrate how the multidisciplinary methods and approaches developed herein can contribute to new pastoral resilience frameworks and understandings We have also documented pastoralists' information needs and sources, in the context of resource management, livelihoods and resilience. We have developed site specific data products, derived from newly available Copernicus Sentinel 2 satellite data, and co-evaluated these with local pastoralist communities. In doing so we have identified the potential efficacy and weaknesses of these products, their delivery and content, as part of a suite of information sources for pastoral decision-making and within wider political landscapes. We have also explored how these insights and the methods and outputs generated by the project may support specific, named policy and/or donor initiatives in our case study countries, through in depth work with policy as well as pastoralist communities.
Exploitation Route In non academic circles, our findings are already being taken forward and used by others through the UKSA funded 'SIBELIUs: Delivering improved resilience for Mongolian herding communities using satellite derived services' project. Specifically, as a core part of this project the SIBELIUs team is working with Mongolia's National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM) and with the Inter Aimag Otor Reserve Administration, part of Mongolia's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry, to enhance pastoral resilience. In doing so we are drawing directly on and taking forward some of the key lessons from the Resilient Pastoralism project and feeding these directly into the governmental/ policy making sphere. An MOU has been agreed with NAMEM to cement this relationship. We are continuing to liaise, through the Resilient Pastoralism partners at Egerton University, with the World Bank funded Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP) in Kenya to facilitate integration of project insights and approaches. In the academic sphere, the SIBELIUs project is enabling more in-depth, longitudinal and field-based explorations of dimensions and drivers of pastoral resilience identified through the Resilient Pastoralism (RP) project. Both projects will yield academic papers, in addition to the existing RP outputs. Two such papers are currently in preparation for the RP project. Overall, our work may be used and taken forward by other academics working in the areas of critical approaches to resilience; pastoral communities and livelihoods; and remote sensing applications in rangelands.
Sectors Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment
URL https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geography/research/projects/resilient-pastoralism
 
Description Specifically, as noted elsewhere, the findings of the Resilient Pastoralism project have fed directly into the successful UKSA funded SIBELIUs project, which started in January 2018. I am highlighting this again here as there is no scope to do so fully in other sections of this document. Specifically, relationships and pathways to impact developed with key Mongolian government agencies during the Resilient Pastoralism project, are now being secured and enhanced through SIBELIUs, The Inter Aimag Otor Reserve Administration, of Mongolia's Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Light Industry are working with us to develop new management tools and approaches, based on Resilient Pastoralism and ongoing SIBELIUs work. MOUs with key government agencies in Mongolia through SIBELIUs will further embed and extend the reach of this work, which links satellite derived services with measurable changes in livelihoods and resilience for herding communities. Other non academic impacts include through workshops in best practice in partnerships with indigenous communities with Maasai pastoralists and policymakers in Kenya, which have and are feeding into research funders' practice, as swell as shaping the ways that local communities engage with policymakers..
First Year Of Impact 2018
Sector Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment
Impact Types Policy & public services
 
Description Mongolian policy contexts
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description participation in 'Mobilising Global Voices' event at Houses of Parliament, as reportded under Engagement above.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description postgraduate training
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description UK Space Agency (UKSA) International Partnerships Programme (IPP) 2
Amount £1,598,242 (GBP)
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2018 
End 04/2021
 
Description International and interdisciplinary research network 
Organisation Egerton University
Country Kenya 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The above network, with further input from the AHRC lead at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology and World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism/ IUCN, was created during this foundation building project. This is as set out in our original proposal which, in line with the guidelines for the GCRF Building Resilience foundation building call, worked to establish new and develop existing interdisciplinary and international collaborations as one of its core activities. Thus all the collaboration is within the core research team which was created by and strengthened during the project. As set out in the original proposal, Professor Bebe at Egerton University acted as the in-country academic lead in Kenya, while Batbuyan Batjav of MAS took on a comparable role in Mongolia. They reported directly to Caroline Upton, University of Leicester, as the project PI, and were responsible with her and the UK team for co-organising workshops and fieldwork, data analysis and reporting. They also worked with the in-country NGO partners - ILEPA (Kenya) and RICS (Mongolia) to facilitate engagement and co-research with local pastoralist communities. As project partners, the latter two organisations, plus WISP/IUCN also offered in kind contributions through their established datasets, facilities and community relations. Through the successful UKSA SIBELIUs bid (see future funding), the collaboration between UOL and Batbuyan Batjav will continue into the future, drawing directly on this Resilient Pastoralism project. As of spring 2021, Professor Upton and Batbuyan Batjav (now the Centre for Nomadic Pastoralism, Mongolia) are collaborating on the SIBELIUs project, and have done so since 2018. Professor Upton has also collaborated with Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA for a small follow up on indigenous methodologies, which produced a 'best practice' output, and on a funding application to British Academy (under review). The colleague at RICS Mongolia has now retired, so there have been no further collaborations with them or with Egerton.
Collaborator Contribution (see above)
Impact Outputs are as listed in the publications section. Other key outcomes are the successful UKSA SIBELIUs project, as reported in detail elsewhere, which draws directly on the collaborations established through the Resilient Pastoralism project. This latter project is multi disciplinary in that it involves remote sensing and earth observation specialists working with social scientists/ human and environmental geographers, plus specialists in livestock insurance and rural livelihoods. It is feeding directly into the policy sphere in Mongolia, hence the impact highlighted below. It was extended to include Kyrgyzstan in 2019, with Batbuyan Batjav also being a key collaborator for this extension. As highlighted above, Professor Upton and Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA have produced a 'best practice' output on indigenous methodologies and working with indigenous communities, through GCRF follow on funding and which featured on UKRI websites (see Publications).
Start Year 2016
 
Description International and interdisciplinary research network 
Organisation Indigenous Livelihoods Enhancement Partners
Country Kenya 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The above network, with further input from the AHRC lead at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology and World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism/ IUCN, was created during this foundation building project. This is as set out in our original proposal which, in line with the guidelines for the GCRF Building Resilience foundation building call, worked to establish new and develop existing interdisciplinary and international collaborations as one of its core activities. Thus all the collaboration is within the core research team which was created by and strengthened during the project. As set out in the original proposal, Professor Bebe at Egerton University acted as the in-country academic lead in Kenya, while Batbuyan Batjav of MAS took on a comparable role in Mongolia. They reported directly to Caroline Upton, University of Leicester, as the project PI, and were responsible with her and the UK team for co-organising workshops and fieldwork, data analysis and reporting. They also worked with the in-country NGO partners - ILEPA (Kenya) and RICS (Mongolia) to facilitate engagement and co-research with local pastoralist communities. As project partners, the latter two organisations, plus WISP/IUCN also offered in kind contributions through their established datasets, facilities and community relations. Through the successful UKSA SIBELIUs bid (see future funding), the collaboration between UOL and Batbuyan Batjav will continue into the future, drawing directly on this Resilient Pastoralism project. As of spring 2021, Professor Upton and Batbuyan Batjav (now the Centre for Nomadic Pastoralism, Mongolia) are collaborating on the SIBELIUs project, and have done so since 2018. Professor Upton has also collaborated with Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA for a small follow up on indigenous methodologies, which produced a 'best practice' output, and on a funding application to British Academy (under review). The colleague at RICS Mongolia has now retired, so there have been no further collaborations with them or with Egerton.
Collaborator Contribution (see above)
Impact Outputs are as listed in the publications section. Other key outcomes are the successful UKSA SIBELIUs project, as reported in detail elsewhere, which draws directly on the collaborations established through the Resilient Pastoralism project. This latter project is multi disciplinary in that it involves remote sensing and earth observation specialists working with social scientists/ human and environmental geographers, plus specialists in livestock insurance and rural livelihoods. It is feeding directly into the policy sphere in Mongolia, hence the impact highlighted below. It was extended to include Kyrgyzstan in 2019, with Batbuyan Batjav also being a key collaborator for this extension. As highlighted above, Professor Upton and Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA have produced a 'best practice' output on indigenous methodologies and working with indigenous communities, through GCRF follow on funding and which featured on UKRI websites (see Publications).
Start Year 2016
 
Description International and interdisciplinary research network 
Organisation Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Country Mongolia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The above network, with further input from the AHRC lead at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology and World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism/ IUCN, was created during this foundation building project. This is as set out in our original proposal which, in line with the guidelines for the GCRF Building Resilience foundation building call, worked to establish new and develop existing interdisciplinary and international collaborations as one of its core activities. Thus all the collaboration is within the core research team which was created by and strengthened during the project. As set out in the original proposal, Professor Bebe at Egerton University acted as the in-country academic lead in Kenya, while Batbuyan Batjav of MAS took on a comparable role in Mongolia. They reported directly to Caroline Upton, University of Leicester, as the project PI, and were responsible with her and the UK team for co-organising workshops and fieldwork, data analysis and reporting. They also worked with the in-country NGO partners - ILEPA (Kenya) and RICS (Mongolia) to facilitate engagement and co-research with local pastoralist communities. As project partners, the latter two organisations, plus WISP/IUCN also offered in kind contributions through their established datasets, facilities and community relations. Through the successful UKSA SIBELIUs bid (see future funding), the collaboration between UOL and Batbuyan Batjav will continue into the future, drawing directly on this Resilient Pastoralism project. As of spring 2021, Professor Upton and Batbuyan Batjav (now the Centre for Nomadic Pastoralism, Mongolia) are collaborating on the SIBELIUs project, and have done so since 2018. Professor Upton has also collaborated with Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA for a small follow up on indigenous methodologies, which produced a 'best practice' output, and on a funding application to British Academy (under review). The colleague at RICS Mongolia has now retired, so there have been no further collaborations with them or with Egerton.
Collaborator Contribution (see above)
Impact Outputs are as listed in the publications section. Other key outcomes are the successful UKSA SIBELIUs project, as reported in detail elsewhere, which draws directly on the collaborations established through the Resilient Pastoralism project. This latter project is multi disciplinary in that it involves remote sensing and earth observation specialists working with social scientists/ human and environmental geographers, plus specialists in livestock insurance and rural livelihoods. It is feeding directly into the policy sphere in Mongolia, hence the impact highlighted below. It was extended to include Kyrgyzstan in 2019, with Batbuyan Batjav also being a key collaborator for this extension. As highlighted above, Professor Upton and Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA have produced a 'best practice' output on indigenous methodologies and working with indigenous communities, through GCRF follow on funding and which featured on UKRI websites (see Publications).
Start Year 2016
 
Description International and interdisciplinary research network 
Organisation Rural Investment Support Centre
Country Mongolia 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The above network, with further input from the AHRC lead at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology and World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism/ IUCN, was created during this foundation building project. This is as set out in our original proposal which, in line with the guidelines for the GCRF Building Resilience foundation building call, worked to establish new and develop existing interdisciplinary and international collaborations as one of its core activities. Thus all the collaboration is within the core research team which was created by and strengthened during the project. As set out in the original proposal, Professor Bebe at Egerton University acted as the in-country academic lead in Kenya, while Batbuyan Batjav of MAS took on a comparable role in Mongolia. They reported directly to Caroline Upton, University of Leicester, as the project PI, and were responsible with her and the UK team for co-organising workshops and fieldwork, data analysis and reporting. They also worked with the in-country NGO partners - ILEPA (Kenya) and RICS (Mongolia) to facilitate engagement and co-research with local pastoralist communities. As project partners, the latter two organisations, plus WISP/IUCN also offered in kind contributions through their established datasets, facilities and community relations. Through the successful UKSA SIBELIUs bid (see future funding), the collaboration between UOL and Batbuyan Batjav will continue into the future, drawing directly on this Resilient Pastoralism project. As of spring 2021, Professor Upton and Batbuyan Batjav (now the Centre for Nomadic Pastoralism, Mongolia) are collaborating on the SIBELIUs project, and have done so since 2018. Professor Upton has also collaborated with Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA for a small follow up on indigenous methodologies, which produced a 'best practice' output, and on a funding application to British Academy (under review). The colleague at RICS Mongolia has now retired, so there have been no further collaborations with them or with Egerton.
Collaborator Contribution (see above)
Impact Outputs are as listed in the publications section. Other key outcomes are the successful UKSA SIBELIUs project, as reported in detail elsewhere, which draws directly on the collaborations established through the Resilient Pastoralism project. This latter project is multi disciplinary in that it involves remote sensing and earth observation specialists working with social scientists/ human and environmental geographers, plus specialists in livestock insurance and rural livelihoods. It is feeding directly into the policy sphere in Mongolia, hence the impact highlighted below. It was extended to include Kyrgyzstan in 2019, with Batbuyan Batjav also being a key collaborator for this extension. As highlighted above, Professor Upton and Stanley Riamit Kimaren of ILEPA have produced a 'best practice' output on indigenous methodologies and working with indigenous communities, through GCRF follow on funding and which featured on UKRI websites (see Publications).
Start Year 2016
 
Description ESRC/ AHRC GRCF funded workshop on best practices in indigenous methodologies and engagement, Rio de Janeiro 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As a result of the Resilient Pastoralism project Kimaren (pastoralist NGO leader ILEPA and partner under the 'Resilient Pastoralism' project) and I (Upton) were invited to a major agenda setting international workshop in Brazil; AHRC/ ESRC/ Peoples' Palace 'Indigenous Methods'. We had previously successfully secured £4990 as part of an Indigenous Case Studies contract from these funders, as a follow on from Resilient Pastoralism. The workshop focused on presentation of case studies, discussions and development of best practice options with funders. A key outcome was the best practice case study on the UKRI website (see Publications),
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description In Country Workshops (4)- Kenya and Mongolia 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact 2 workshops were hosted in Kenya (in Nairobi and Narok respectively) and two in Mongolia (both in Ulaanbaatar) in the early stages of the project and on completion of field based activities. All were attended by 30-50 key National and regional policymakers, NGOs in the pastoralist sector, key donors and researchers. At these we presented our project aims, strategies and proposed methods (initial workshop) and results (final workshop). We worked with the invited attendees to scope resilience challenges, and to further develop pathways to impact in relation to specific, named policies and/or donor projects and initiatives. The latter workshops cemented clear synergies and possibilities for future collaboration, for example in relation to the major World Bank supported Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP) in Kenya, and to emergent disaster risk management initiatives in Mongolia. The latter have fed directly into the major 3 year UKSA IPP2 funded 'SIBELIUs: Delivering Improved Resilience for Mongolian Herding Communities using Satellite Derived Services' project, which has just been awarded and which includes both Caroline Upton and Batbuyan Batjav of the Resilient Pastoralism project team in key roles.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Invited submission to UK Collaborative on Development Research (UKCDR; a group of government departments and research funders) website. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Invited to write a blogpost on the Resilient Pastoralism project for UKCDR following presentation at workshop for 'Building Resilience' portfolio of projects.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL https://www.ukcdr.org.uk/what-does-resilience-mean-for-pastoral-communities
 
Description Online discussions 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As part of the Resilient Pastoralism project we shared project details and elicited comments and contributions through online global pastoralism networks, e.g. CELEP, WISP thus extending the reach of the project well beyond our case study countries. Participants in these networks typically comprise pastoral NGOs and activists, including practicing pastoralists in diverse geographical contexts. These activities gave rise to questions and discussions, and enabled the project to forge links with some key actors in the network, which will be developed further in the future and as part of ongoing global strategies and approaches to building pastoral resilience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017,2018
 
Description Pastoralist engagement and feedback 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact Meetings and discussions with participating herding households and communities in both countries (Kenya and Mongolia) in development of final outputs and for sharing of Photovoice publication ('Representing 'Resilience': Stories and Images from Kenya and Mongolia') with participants. This latter output is in English, Mongolian, Kiswahili and Maa, and is facilitating further ongoing discussions between local NGOs and pastoralist communities on how the lessons generated can facilitate working with policy makers and policy influence for enhanced pastoral resilience into the future.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017,2018
 
Description Workshops with in country pastoralist groups and policymakers under 'Indigenous engagement, research partnerships and knowledge mobilisation: best practice case study'. Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) 2018 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Commencing in September 2018, the underpinning grant was designed to enable critical reflection on co-production of knowledge, equitable partnerships, methodological challenges and innovations and policy impact in co-research with indigenous communities. Drawing directly on the Resilient Pastoralism project, a core part of the work was a two day workshop held with Maasai pastoralist partners and local policy makers in Narok District, Kenya. During these two days detailed reflections and discussion were conducted on issues of research partnerships, ethics and co-production of knowledge. The outputs were submitted to AHRC as a report and will be used to inform future UK-funded research practice, impact and design of funding calls. This also led directly to Kimaren (pastoralist NGO leader ILEPA and partner under the 'Resilient Pastoralism' project) and I (Upton) being invited to a major agenda setting international workshop in Brazil; AHRC/ ESRC/ Peoples' Palace 'Indigenous Methods' (forthcoming March 2019).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description presentation at AHRC 'Mobilising Global Voices' event at the Houses of Parliament, February 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Invited attendance and presentation at AHRC 'mobilising global voices' event, designed to 'showcase to Members of Parliament (MPs) outstanding AHRC-GCRF led research, produced collaboratively with Global South partners. It also aims to bring diverse voices from UK and Global South International Development scholars, practitioners and local community partners (connected to this research) to Parliamentary Committees and Groups, in order to facilitate research uptake by policy-makers in international development'.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://ahrc.ukri.org/newsevents/events/calendar/mobilising-global-voices-2019-perspectives-from-the...