The European Commission has donated Sh32 million for drought management programmes in Moyale to boost pastoral livelihoods and improve animal husbandry in the region.The money will be used to build and rehabilitate water facilities, improve pasture accessibility and livestock marketing across the Kenya-Ethiopia border.The Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development (Cordaid) will receive the funding for the one-and-half year programme.
Cordaid programme coordinator Mohammed Dida said that the drought cycle management project would focus on water facility development to increase access to clean water for both human and livestock.
“The money will help us boost pastoralists’ lives and strengthen livestock marketing across the Kenya-Ethiopia border to minimise cross border pastoral conflicts,” he said during the launch of Godoma Laboratory health project in Moyale. Cordaid, Royal Netherlands Embassy and Amref-Kenya funded this Sh2.5 million-laboratory intended to diagnose and manage TB, malaria and HIV/Aids.
