Dutch Committee for Afghanistan project with Kuchi

1. Overview
 Project overview
 Progress to date- Dec, 2015 onward
 Challenges
 Recommendations of Inception period
Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock
Community Livestock and Agriculture
Project(CLAP/IFAD)
Livestock Development among the Pastoralists

2. Project location Kabul, Logar, Parwan Provinces
Project start date 26, January, 2014
Project duration 6 years
Total budget $ US 5 Million
MAIL Leading implementer and owner of the project
Donor IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural
Development)
Project Support
Team
Provide overall implementation, coordination and
technical Support
Provincial
Community Council
of Pastoralists
Responsible for provincial level implementation
and coordination
Service Providers DCA, FAO, ICARDA and MRRD are ground level
implementers

4. Goal
To contribute to reduce poverty in rural Afghanistan
Objective
 Improve food, feed and nutritional security of animals
(directly) and humans (indirectly)
 Create a self-sustaining network of high quality animal
health care providers
 Enhance livelihoods and resilience against predictable
livestock emergencies of Pastoralists communities

5. Component Major activities Beneficiary
Livestock
Development
among the
Pastoralists
1. Improve Pastoralists access to veterinary
services
2. Train livestock owner through extension
3. Alternative livelihood for settled
Pastoralists
4. Rangeland management through key
forage species
5. Improve access to markets and value of
products through value chain
development
6. Restocking of those Pastoralists
interested in nomadic life
7. Facilitate year -around feeding for
Pastoralists herds
Integrated approach with partners where
possible
20,000
HHs

6. 1. Livestock and Livestock Products are the key
entry point
2. Sustained engagement with strategic sequencing
of interventions which are conflict sensitive
3. Community based approach
4. Identify bottlenecks- Pasture access
5. Establish councils at ground, and provincial level
6. Understand the Pastoralists logic. Implement in
both seasonal locations and migratory route
7. Flexibility with a ‘ground’ up approach

8. Need Assessment Survey carried
out in targeted districts, data entry
completed
Project orientation meetings held
with community

9.  VFU assessment survey completed, 13 out of 20
selected
 Hygiene Kits distributed to Female Extension
Groups
 18 BVWs(Basic Veterinary Workers) Pastoralist
trained
 Extension Training Workshop for VFU and field
staff conducted
 15 Female Pastoralist self-help groups established

10. Subsidized deworming campaign, 86,541 sheep, goats and
Cattle of the Pastoralists community dewormed

13. Established two Animals fodder banks

14. 10 Para-vet trained and support by the Pastoralists from target Area.

15. Paravet Activities in the Field

16. Activities Vaccination, Deworming and Treatment by VFU
Year Wise 2014 2015
Vaccination 126010 213990
Treatment 62307 86996
Deworming 125970 180965

18. Extension tools

22. UREA TREATMENT HYGIENE KIT

24.  Can not deliver service to Past. in insecure area
(Winter settlement - 5 months ( Oct-Feb) in (Nangarhar,
Laghman, Khost …..)
• Summer settlement (Logar, Kabul, Parwan)- 7 months
 Pastoralist are leaving pastoralism ( no any service
to them)
 Problem of migration path with farmers
 Pasture problem and conflict with farmers

25.  Lack of education and health services among the
mobile Pastoralists
 Restocking issues

26. • To Extend the Project activities to other provinces

29. We welcome
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