Pastoralist Field Schools are ‘schools without walls’ that develop capacity from existing local knowledge. Pastoralists receive practical training and education on how they can improve livestock production by reversing land degradation.

The Pastoralist Field Schools concept, currently developed in Kenya and Uganda, is being taken up by other countries such as Ethiopia and Djibouti and among multiple actors both across NGOS and government.

To better deal with the drought risk in a collective manner, the Pastoralist Field Schools approach has in many cases been implemented in complementarity with the Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction approach, and powerful platforms for collective action have emerged in intervention sites in Karamoja, Uganda and Turkana, Kenya.