NAT. LIVESTOCK DEV.

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The Livestock Development and Rangeland Management Project has four major objectives, which are: 1) to raise livestock productivity, by expanding animal health services; 2) to alleviate poverty among herders, by rebuilding herds of viable size and broadening their activities to include crop farming; 3) to strengthen the livestock sector's professional organizations, through the democratization of their operations and the decentralization of the decision making process; and 4) to ensure the sustainable management of natural resources. The project is designed around two main lines of action: 1) implementation of administrative and policy reforms and 2) financial support for a package of development activities. The project will finance the following six major components: 1) rationalizing rangeland management by setting up and administering 21 Agro-Pastoral Action Areas ; 2) strengthening the animal health services and setting up veterinary checkpoints at the country's borders; 3) implementing a grassroots capacity development program among herders and their wives to help them organize themselves into herding interest groups or mixed farming interest groups ; 4) setting up and running a mutual savings and loan scheme and a line of financial assistance for herd rebuilding; 5) technical support to livestock activities; and 6) ensuring the proper administration of the above activities by providing training of supervisory staff and directing project administration costs.