Presentation from the Informal Consultation on Livestock Issues between the FAO Animal Production and Health Division and interested Non-Governmental Organizations. 1–2 December 2009 Italy, Rome FAO Headquarters. [ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]

1. Animal Husbandry Within WORLD
VISION’S Development and Relief
Work
Hannibal Muhtar
Team Leader
Africa Livelihoods Security Team

2. World Vision’s
Overview and Interventions
Hope for the
Most
Vulnerable

3. Our History
World Vision began in the heart
of our founder, the Rev. Bob
Pierce, who started World Vision
in 1950 in response to the
tremendous obstacles facing
vulnerable children
Pierce’s prayer laid the foundation
for World Vision:
“Let my heart be BROKEN
by the things that
BREAK THE HEART OF GOD.”

4. Who We Are Today
World Vision is a Christian development, relief and
advocacy organization dedicated to working with children,
families and communities, to overcome poverty and
injustice.
Healthy children in secure HHs in resilient communities

5. Anti- Community Food
Trafficking Nutrition Participation Microfinanc Education
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Our vision for
every child,
life in all its fullness.
Our prayer for
every heart,
the will to make it so.

6. Barriers to Hope
Children around the world face countless barriers to their
development and well-being. Many of these barriers have been
entrenched for decades, while others have intensified in
recent years.
Disasters
Poverty
War
Unsafe drinking
water
AIDS
Illiteracy Discrimination Malnutrition
and abuse

7. Our Core Values
1. We are Christian.
2. We are committed to the poor
3. We value people.
4. We are stewards.
5. We are partners.
6. We are responsive.

8. How We Serve
• World Vision partners with communities, faith-based
and non-government organizations, centers of
excellence, governments and other aid agencies to
pursue life in all its fullness for every child.
• We serve all people regardless of religion, race,
ethnicity or gender.

9. How We Are Governed
• World Vision is a federal partnership of national entities.
• An international board of directors oversees the
Partnership.
• In the majority of the countries where we work, national
boards and advisory councils exercise responsibility for
governance at the national level.

10. Our Regions
Middle East & East
Europe Region
Asia
Pacific
Region
Africa Region
[EARO, SARO,
WARO]

11. World Vision’s
Interventions
Hope for the
Most Vulnerable

12. Animal Husbandry in WV’s Work
• Almost all of WV’s 80 national offices (NO) in
the WV four regions carry out—as needed—
animal husbandry work in both development
and relief contexts, even if most the relief
and special projects are in Africa
• Funds to cover this work are from WV’s Area
Development Program (ADP) budgets as well as
special projects
Transformed Livelihoods 12

13. 3 Special Projects:
1. GEL:DRC, Rwanda,
Mozambique, Tanzania,
Mauritania,
2. WA-NRM: Chad,
Ghana, Mali,
Mauritania, Niger, and
Senegal,
3. HOAPLI: Ethiopia,
Kenya, Tanzania,
Somalia, Uganda, Sudan
Transformed Livelihoods 13

14. Animal Husbandry in WV’s Work
• Livelihoods assessments / analyses are carried
out to determine the most appropriate /
needed intervention
• Our development work take into account DRR
and mitigation, preparing communities and HHs
• Relief interventions lead to longer term
development plans and sustained outcomes
Transformed Livelihoods

15. Animal Husbandry in WV’s Work
• In Relief mode, the work focuses on restocking
of culturally acceptable species like:
– Small animals (goats, sheep, rabbits, pigs, etc.)
– Poultry (broilers, layers, guinea fowl, etc.)
– Cattle, Camels,
– Aquaculture [Fish and fish ponds]
• Various methods used for this kind of work
– MFI, credit, loans, rotating livestock funds
– Donations in special cases, like for child-headed HH,
repatriated IDP, after natural calamities, etc.
Transformed Livelihoods

16. How do we do the work?
• In the Horn of Africa and most of the Sahel /
sub-Saharan region we focus on pastoralists
and agro-pastoralists. The priorities of the
projects focus on;
1. Alternative Livelihoods
2. Natural resource management
3. Livestock marketing and market access
4. Environmental matters
5. Governance and advocacy
Transformed Livelihoods

17. What We Focus On
• Livestock is the main source of livelihood
for the pastoralists. To support them in
animal husbandry, World Vision has
managed to intervene through:
1. Animal health
2. Vaccination campaigns
3. Re-stocking and de-stocking
4. Improved genetic stock-Breeding
5. Collaborative partnerships

18. What We Focus On
1. Animal health
– WV trains the livestock keepers on common
animal diseases and how to treat them.
– WV trains Community Based Animal Health
Workers (CBAHWs), on animal health and
care. These move around the communities

19. What We Focus On
1. Animal health, Continued
– WV provides the CBAHWs with veterinary kits
which they are able to use to treat livestock
and earn a little income.
– WV also trains PARA-VETS and provides them
with hands-on training and veterinary kits

20. What We Focus On
2. Vaccination campaigns
- To treat and vaccinate the animals.
- Create community awareness on emerging
diseases such as rift valley fever and
others

21. What We Focus On
3. Re-Stocking and De-stocking
- Working with the government on de-
stocking to prevent total loss of animals
- Linking the pastoralists with favorable
markets in order to restock after the
drought

22. What We Focus On
4. Breeding
- We provide the communities with improved
cattle breed to enhance the local breed for
better yields.
- Some of the breeds we have introduced are
the Borana cattle and the Sahiwal bulls.

23. What We Focus On
5. Increased collaboration
Partnership with other pastoral NGOs,
iNGOs, local agencies, CGIAR, universities,
government research and extension bodies,
and donors through networks, to foster
linkages, avoid duplication of interventions,
and share resources and information to
increase impact;

24. What We Focus On
5. Increased collaboration, continued
Formation of livestock committees and
associations;
• Mobilization and grouping of livestock
traders to help them sell collectively and
have bargaining power
• Registration of the associations
• Training of the committees on animal
grazing land management and management of
the better breed cattle

25. Other interventions related to livestock
Natural resource management:
– Training on NRM
– Rehabilitation / fencing of water points
– Construction of water pans and rain harvesting
– Support the communities in bush clearing and
thinning
– Training on seeding reseeding of better grass
species and reclaiming degraded land and pastures

26. Livestock Marketing & Market Access
Interventions include:
• Linking the pastoralists with good markets;
buyers and sellers
• Rehabilitating markets to attract market
users

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28. Challenges
• Drought
– The Horn of Africa continues to experience
persistent drought leading to great animal loss.
• Improved animal breeds
– these are not easily available and are expensive
for the local cattle keeper
• Livestock markets
– Livestock markets seem to be influenced by
cartels that determine who buy and sell in the
markets in the pastoral areas (mainly Kenya and
Ethiopia).

29. Challenges
• Animal feed
– drought affects the planting growth of animal
feed.
• Grazing land
– Grazing land still remains an issue thus causing
conflict amongst the livestock keepers and the
agro-pastoralists
• Animal Diseases
– Recurrent animal diseases such as trypanosomiasis
disease caused by tsetse flies
• Recurring Conflicts

30. Thank You