Women In Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods
Women, Coffee and Climate
Modern Day Slavery
P/CVE Project
Migrating out of Poverty - Ethiopia
ELLA Project
INTRODUCTION
The networks, livelihoods, and identities of borderland communities in the IGAD region remain complex and intertwined. Communities, individuals, elites, governments, and even cartels operate in this milieu amidst the ease and difficulties associated with trading across borders. This is both a historical as well as a contemporary phenomenon. Traditionally, entities operating in this environment have found ways of coping with the realities that confront them and in response formed networks that facilitate movement and trade along borders. The management of cross-border trade has, therefore, involved a variety of activities, all aimed at protecting the livelihoods of communities living along the borders of Member States of the IGAD region.