Connecting Peace, Markets, Climate, and Border Governance.

BORESHA-NABAD applies an inclusive systems-based approach that strengthens livelihoods, climate adaptation, and peace and stability by addressing the factors that shape resilience across the region. Rather than treating challenges as separate issues, the programme focuses on how they interact and influence one another within the wider system.

Across the borderlands, climate variability, water insecurity, land degradation, market constraints, conflict dynamics, migration pressures, and gaps in service delivery are mutually reinforcing. Together, they shape patterns of vulnerability, influence livelihood opportunities, and affect the ability of communities and institutions to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to shocks.

Addressing these challenges, therefore, requires strengthening not only individual sectors but also the relationships and systems that connect them. BORESHA-NABAD works to improve the inclusivity, functionality, and coordination of the institutions, markets, and resource management systems that underpin livelihoods and social cohesion.

This is achieved through integrated investments in peacebuilding,border governance, and migration management, water systems, climate-smart agriculture, animal health, financial inclusion, enterprise development, disaster risk reduction, and natural resource management. Bringing these interventions together generates mutually reinforcing benefits that strengthen both local capacities and wider cross-border systems.

Through this integrated approach, BORESHA-NABAD builds resilience at multiple levels—from households and communities to institutions and regional networks. By strengthening the systems that support livelihoods, resource governance, and social cohesion, the programme contributes to more resilient communities, stronger cross-border cooperation, and lasting peace and stability across the Mandera Triangle.