Implementation Sites

We train local herders through accredited courses to become Professional Herders. These Professional Herders provide the required capacity to support conservation stewardship, planned grazing, rangeland restoration, wildlife conflict mitigation, and improved production. The herders are primarily responsible for continuous data collection as part of site-level monitoring and evaluation processes.  

The Professional Herder model has been transformational when it comes to national job creation programmes, and South Africa became the first African country to include professional herders (Ecorangers) as a job creation category within its national job creation programme. Currently, Botswana is moving to do the same through support by the GCF Botswana Project.Additional support is provided to our sites by facilitating knowledge-sharing, partner access, and adoption of innovative technologies such as mobile bomas and monitoring platforms.

We build market readiness and support the development of pro-conservation value-chains to sustain stewardship actions. We drive policy reforms for improved market access for those who farm with best practices in wildlife areas. Through sustained conservation actions, value addition is created, for example by verified carbon sequestration, and wildlife tourism.
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Science and research as a platform to inform the measurement of impact and inform implementation and innovations to achieve sustainable outcomes.

We establish systems to monitor the impact of Herding for Health implementation on native rangelands, wildlife, livestock and human well-being. Our three-tiered approach to monitoring incorporates data collected by professional herders, team leaders, project managers, all of which is integrated with remote sensing and collated into a monitoring dashboard.
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We don't just monitor, but ensure implementation is adaptive and we learn from the data generated to always push for implementation excellence in all our varied implementation sites.