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  Experience in negotiating and securing resources to prevent conflicts related to pastoral mobility in Cote d'ivoire

  This experience was shared during a workshop held in Lomé (Togo) from 29 to 31 October 2019 organised by PEPISAO (Projet Elevage et pastoralisme intégrés et sécurisés en Afrique). It was complemented by amendments from some forty pastoral and agricultural associations from West Africa and Chad. The "Negotiating and securing pastoral resources to prevent conflicts" experience is carried out by the Organisation Professionnelle des Eleveurs de Ferkessédougou (OPEF) created in 2009 in the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire. OPEF’s objective is to improve the living conditions of livestock farmers and their livestock as well as to promote good livestock farming practices. This experiment in negotiating and securing pastoral resources is being conducted in the north-central part of Côte d'Ivoire in the regions of Tchologo, Poro and Bagoué. It started in 2016 with the support of the international NGO Acting for Life (AFL) through the Support to the Resilience of Agro-Pastoral Systems in West Africa (PARSAO) project. Other pastoralist organisations are engaged in the same process of negotiating and securing pastoral resources in other regions of Côte d'Ivoire, particularly in the north-east (the Bounkani region by AEBRB) and the north-west (the Kabadougou and Folon regions by AJELAMO). This experience continued in 2018, within the framework of the implementation of Component 3 of the Regional Programme of Dialogue and Investment for Pastoralism and Transhumance in the Sahel and Coastal Countries of West Africa (PREDIP) through the Support Project for Livestock Mobility for Better Access to Resources and Markets in West Africa (PAMOBARMA). PREDIP, which is funded by the European Union, is a project coordinated by CILSS and implemented in partnership with CARE Denmark, Acting For Life, CRSA and the Agrhymet Regional Centre.