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Karimojong Youth lead an investigation into their 'Strengths and Livelihoods'
"We lost our cows and we resorted to hard and risky work in mines, quarries and murram pits. But we have not left the culture of livestock keeping behind. We are working hard to buy animals."
This is one of the findings of a group of young Karimojong men and women who spent November and December investigating the livelihoods of Karimojong youth through action research. The full findings have now been published in an image-rich book, "Strength, Creativity and Livelihoods of Karimojong Youth".
The team plan to give the book to those interested to learn about how life is today for young people in Karamoja and what has caused this to be. It illustrates the strength of the young Karimojong: their respect for others, strength of mind, flexibility, carefulness and knowledge and respect for law and tradition. The team suggests that when 'outsiders' come to work in the region they should read the book and find out what young people have to say.
The team will soon be taking copies of the book to all the communities where they undertook the research and discussing the findings with other young people, elders, mothers and others.
Click on the picture above to download the book and read about their other conclusions and what they found out on their journey round Napak and Moroto districts of the Karamoja sub-Region in Uganda. Visit our publications page for a summary of the research and a separate method paper.
Restless Development Uganda commisssioned the research. The team was facilitated by PCI members and the Institute of Development Studies. (January 2012)
'They think Mobility doesn't make good citizens!'
23 people from the Horn of Africa and UK gathered recently in northern Kenya to discuss life on the move as part of a consultation for the Bellagio Initiative dialogue on philanthropy and development. Each of the 23 live life on the move, some driven by war and violence, others choosing economic migration, yet others are born into a mobile life. Their movement encompasses Somalia, Kenya, Sudan and Ethiopia, the UK and beyond.
This group asked what might create the sustained political will that would legitimise mobile citizenship. They proposed developing partnerships and strategies with diasporas and leveraging the unique capabilities of deep-rooted community institutions in Africa.
The Bellagio Initiative is a series of global consultations to produce a new framework for philanthropic and international development collaboration in pursuit of human wellbeing in the 21st century. The project is led by the Institute of Development Studies, the Resource Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Download the report from the consultation on 'Living on the Move' here (573Kb). (October 2011)
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