Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

TA 4406: Capacity Building for Smallholder Livestock Systems - LAO PDR
Financed by Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund

Project Summary

This technical assistance (TA) aims to strengthen the capacity of government field officers to work with poor farmers in adapting and adopting technical and management options for improving smallholder livestock systems. It is expected that the government field officers will be able to better respond to the variations between and within villages, based on gender, linguistic, cultural, geographical and livelihood differences.

To achieve this the TA will support the following activities:

• build the capacity of poor villagers - especially women and ethnic minorities - and field officers for participatory methods to encourage adaptation and adoption of technical and management options for improving livestock productivity
• strengthen the national and provincial technical support skills in livestock sector
• develop systematic approach to reach and involve farmers including women and ethnic minorities
• document the experience and lessons learned for incorporation in the ensuing Participatory Livestock Development Project (PDLP); to do so, the TA will be carried out in parallel to a project preparatory technical assistance of the PDLP

• TA Paper [ PDF: 219kb | 14 pages ]
• Consultant's Report [ PDF: 9,722kb | 200 pages ]