ABSTRACT
Demand for education among pastoralists, including children actively involved in production, is rapidly increasing. Education is seen by impoverished households as a pathway out of poverty, and by the households actively involved in pastoral production as a way to support their production system in an increasingly globalized world. Kenya, like other countries with significant pastoral populations, faces a problem of poor attendance and graduation rates of nomadic children in school. Kenya has a national syllabus for primary education, which the Kenya Institute of Education is mandated to develop. Experiments are currently under way in Kenya to develop a distance learning system (using a combination of radio programmes, mobile tutors and audio/print materials), aimed at broadcasting a full primary curriculum including literacy to individual children and their families directly at the camps. In all cases, the frequency modulated spectrum is currently almost completely unused throughout the dryland areas of Kenya.
