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Participatory rangeland management (PRM) is a step-by-step process that builds the capacities of pastoralist communities to improve the management, governance and restoration of their land and resources. It seeks to address the challenges that pastoral communities across Africa face including a lack of tenure security with an increasingly degrading resource base as pressures on land grow. Introduced in 2010, it is now being implemented across more than 2 million hectares in East Africa. Three impact pathway s were followed to reach this point – developing and piloting PRM, building capacities to implement PRM, and influencing a more enabling policy environment. However, though PRM in name can be easily scaled in terms of coverage, greater attention must be gi ven to maintaining its core principles and deepening community engagement and capacities. It requires a significant investment from all involved including sufficient time and funding to move at a pace that allows for capacity building of communities to lead the process, co-develop solutions and support policy and legislation improvements.