ISTVS Agro-pastoral Field School Graduation event Somaliland 26-27 February IGAD and FAO building field capacity for resilience

13/03/2017

On 27 February, 21 Master Trainers, including four women, graduated from a three-month Agropastoral Field School (APFS) Master Trainer course held at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Sheikh Technical Veterinary School (ISTVS) in Sheikh, Somaliland. As Master Trainers, the graduates are now considered senior trainers, and have the capacity to train field-level community facilitators.

The training was conducted by IGAD with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) under a five-year programme funded by the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), the “IGAD-FAO Partnership Programme on Drought Resilience”. The Programme was designed to support the implementation of the IGAD Drought Disaster Resilience Sustainability Initiative (IDDRSI) by supporting resilience building among agropastoral communities in the Horn of Africa.