INTRODUCTION TO PARTICIPATORY RANGELAND
MANAGEMENT (PRM)
Fiona Flintan
Presented at the CELEP Webinar, 14th October 2020

History
• 1994 onward
participatory forest
management
piloted in Ethiopia –
was upscaled and
mainstreamed
• 2010 publication of
the Introductory
Guidelines to PRM
(Flintan and Cullis
2010) (EU-FAO,
USAID-ELMT)

History
• Interest in the approach from BERSMP in Bale Oromia
region by FARM-Africa/SOS Sahel – PFM project 2007-2012
• 2012-2013 FARM Africa/SOS Sahel piloted PRM in Bale
Mountains – Cordaid funded (Cordaid coordinated CELEP)
• 2009-2013 Save the Children – PLI II started piloting in
Borana, Oromia region Ethiopia
• FARM Africa piloted PRM in Afar region Ethiopia
• 2014 Review of PRM by Tezera Getahun (PFE) for FARM
Africa – input to design of BRACED (DFID)
• 2014-2017 CARE upscaled PRM through PRIME
• 2014-2017 SHARE project Bale Mountains – FARM, IWMI,
• 2015 FARM Africa PRM in BRACED project

History
• 2015
Publication of
a mapping
guidelines for
PRM (USAID-
PRIME) (Irwin,
Cullis and
Flintan)
• Draft manual
in-hand (Irwin,
Flintan)

History –
• 2012? PRM proposal submitted by Cordaid on behalf of
CELEP to European Parliament to take lessons on PRM
to Kenya and Tanzania
• PRM included in WB – RPLRP being implemented in
Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda (Project 2015)
• Paper on PRM at WB Conference 2016
• Review of PRM WRI/ILRI 2017 – TBC.
• 2017-2021 Agreement from EU to fund ILC (and CELEP)
for a project taking lessons learned from PRM in
Ethiopia to Kenya and Tanzania

What is PRM?

What is PRM? Identifying rangeland uses
and users Step 1

Step 2 Setting up or strengthening
rangeland management institutions

What is PRM? Defining the rangeland
management unit Step 3

What is PRM?

Challenges for PRM in Ethiopia
• Lack of enabling environment and/or investment in
developing the enabling environment
• Lack of proper monitoring of impacts and “proof” of the
concept and its impacts
• Impacts tend to be long-term not short-term
• Requires time and resources – planning – so some not
willing to invest in this
• Lack of investment in improving the productivity of the
rangelands at scale
• Lack of embedding the process in government processes
– i.e. not institutionalised

Why Kenya and Tanzania?
• Need for greater investment in rangelands, particularly
in the technical management
• History of SRMP in Tanzania and e.g. county spatial
planning work in Kenya
• History of individuals and organisations in
development of PRM with personal interests
• Time to see how the approach can work in different
contexts.
• Rangelands a CBI of ILC, NES Tz (Kenya) - rangelands
• EU – came to ILC with the PRM proposal it was agreed
for ILC to take on proposal – working with CELEP

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