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Cross-Border Interaction Spurs Innovation and Hope Among Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Women of Ethiopia and Kenya

On the Ground African pastoralists endure poverty, drought, and hunger. Women are especially marginalized because they are illiterate, unskilled, disempowered, and engaged in daily drudgery. Such women, however, are capable of remarkable, sustained achievements in collective action, livelihood diversification, micro-finance, and community-based wealth generation. Women can be profoundly inspired by successful peers. After careful training and mentoring, inspired women can then start new initiatives. Husbands can be supportive of women's empowerment because household welfare improves. Men sometimes join—and occasionally help lead—collective-action efforts. Women's empowerment should be a major focus in pastoral development projects because of the positive community synergisms women create.