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League for Pastoral Peoples and Endogenous Livestock Development,
Annual Report 2006 10
Susanne became coordinator of the Working Group on Biological Diversity
of the German NGO Forum on Environment and Development. Since
the German government has invited the Parties of the Convention on Bio-
logical Diversity to hold its next biannual conference in Bonn (May 2008),
the German NGOs started preparations with a national workshop held at
the end of October 2006. Attended by some 60 participants, activities were
planned with regard to lobbying, networking and local action. This work in-
cludes lobbying the German ministries of the environment, agriculture and
development, the City of Bonn and many others.
Christiane Herweg
Christiane represented LPP at a conference of NGOs on desertification in
Montpellier in October 2006. The conference issued the Montpellier Dec-
laration, calling for bottom-up implementation of UN-sponsored activities to
combat desertification, and closer involvement by NGOs in these activities.
While in Montpellier, she also attended the first organizational meeting of
the European Union-sponsored Dry-Net project. This project coordinates
the activities of 17 NGOs from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. It is
coordinated by Both Ends NL, a Dutch NGO.
Ilse Köhler-Rollefson
On 22­30 April, Ilse worked with a project in Mongolia on the "Conserva-
tion and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources ­ Gobi com-
ponent" for the New Zealand Nature Institute. She helped identify ways to
support camel herders in the Gobi in livestock management, animal genetic
resources conservation, product development, and marketing.
She also is consultant to a project managed by LPP partner Lokhit Pashu-
Palak Sansthan on camel husbandry in India. This project, "Revitalizing
camel pastoralism for sustainable livelihoods and land utilization", is
funded by the Ford Foundation. Ilse's responsibilities include project de-
sign, communication and backstopping.
Together with Evelyn Mathias, she provided inputs for GTZ to a German
government conference on avian flu in Berlin in October.
She also undertook a consultancy for the World Bank in Malawi on "How
communities learn from each other".
Evelyn Mathias
Together with Tom Loquang, Evelyn participated in the Innovation Africa
Symposium on 20­23 November in Kampala, Uganda.
On 12­15 December, she attended the African Regional Workshop on
Sustainable Use in Nairobi, Kenya, as an observer for FAO.
Together with Ilse Köhler-Rollefson and Paul Mundy, Evelyn contributed a
chapter on "Flows of animal genetic resources" to FAO's State of the
World Report on Animal Genetic Resources.
Paul Mundy
Paul facilitated LPP's conference at Bellagio in Italy, managed websites for
LPP, Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan and the LIFE Network, and edited vari-
ous publications for the League.