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The representatives of the governments of the six countries of the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal) gathered in Nouakchott by invitation of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS), and the World Bank in collaboration with the African Union Commission, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and in the presence of representatives of international and regional research organizations, civil society organizations, producers' organizations, the private sector, and technical and financial partners, for the purpose of strengthening the resilience of Sahelo-Saharan pastoral societies.

Year of publication: 2013
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: West Africa, Central Africa

The N’djamena Declaration, adopted by Ministers responsible for livestock and security from a number of African countries, calls upon the Sahelian, West African, Central African, North African and international communities to unite in a spirit of peace, tolerance and sharing, in order to promote peace and sustainable development for the Saharo-Sahelian areas. Only by supporting pastoralism, regional stability can be maintained. 

Year of publication: 2013
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Participation
Language: العربية, English, Français
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa

Mobile indigenous peoples have sustainably managed the land they live on for centuries. However, in the name of biodiversity conservation, some have been displaced and removed from their traditional territories and left destitute and culturally weakened. While these practices have been largely unwanted in theory by biodiversity conservation agencies, progress in human rights observance and land compensation lagged behind new thinking on the relationship between people and protected areas. Thus, local and national policy and institutional change in the field have not kept pace with advances in thinking at the international level; nor do they always live up to public declarations of concern for human rights. Ten years after the Dana Declaration on Mobile Peoples and Conservation was formulated in Wadi Dana, Jordan, it is time to follow up on the achievements of the past decade and consider the future. This workshop report therefore, addresses the concerns regarding the welfare of mobile indigenous peoples in biodiversity conservation.

Year of publication: 2012
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Environmental services, Indigenous peoples
Language: English
Type of document: Technical, Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global

"We, the women pastoralists gathered in Mera, India, from November 21-26, 2010, representing 32 countries, have met to strengthen alliances and forward practical solutions to issues that affect us."

"We present this declaration as a guiding political document to inform and support the development of pastoralist policies."

Year of publication: 2010
Organization: Individual authors 
Topic: Gender and youth, Participation
Language: English, Français, Español
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global

This declaration was made at the world gathering of nomadic and transhumant pastoralists in Segovia, Spain in September 2007. Two hundred nomadic and transhumant pastoralists urged governments and international organizations to recognise the importance of pastoralism and to support pastoralist communities worldwide. 

Year of publication: 2007
Organization: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) 
Topic: Participation
Language: English
Type of document: Policies and legislation
Geographical coverage: Global