Kenya: OCHA Pastoralist Voices, Volume 1, Issue 20 - July 2010

On the June 29 the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the Institute for Security Studies and the United Nations Environment Programme jointly launched the Security in Mobility (SIM) Call to Action. The Security in Mobility Call to Action recommends

A Regional Normative Framework to facilitate and protect pastoralists' mobility:

The Security in Mobility (SIM) initiative is calling for the development of a normative framework to facilitate pastoralists' mobility across the Horn and East Africa. Facilitated pastoralist mobility will reduce the current risk emanating from essential pastoralists migration in search of pasture and water.

An integrated approach promoting climate change adaptation; A SECURITY IN MOBILITY (SIM) APPROACH:

The SIM approach promotes the provision of humanitarian response in pastoralist areas to run concurrently with the provision of basic services, implementation of facilitated migration and comprehensive security to run concurrently within pastoralists' areas. The SIM approach is promoted and presented as a climate change adaptation approach that builds pastoralist communities' recovery from and resilience to the impact of climate change.

The June 29, 2010 launch of the SIM Call To Action was attended by over 200 agencies among them United Nations agencies, International and Local Non-Governmental Organizations, Development partners as well as Community Based Organizations. From the Diplomatic Corps from the following embassies participated: Embassy of Switzerland, Italian Embassy, Embassy of Finland, Norwegian Embassy, Royal Dutch Embassy, Embassy of The Republic of Germany, French Embassy, Embassy of Sudan, Embassy of Ethiopia and the European Union. Also represented were the Government of Kenya, East Africa Community Legislative Assembly and Pastoralist Community Groups from across the Horn and East Africa.