Our Focus Area
Animal Health and Welfare
- Reducing the use of antimicrobials in food animals
- strengthening last mile animal healthcare delivery
- Driving One Health Collaborations
Our Journey so far
Our programs in strengthening animal health and welfare have focused on improving last mile access to animal health and advocacy on AMR and Vaccination campaigns for farmers and agrovet dealers.
Training last mile animal health agents
Working with different partners we have supported over 600 last mile animal health service providers with additional training in artificial insemination and vaccination campaigns, across Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Niger and Taraba
Impact Metrics
This campaign addressed a critical gap in AMR advocacy by mobilizing last-mile animal health service providers to reach underserved farmers and agrovet dealers.
The campaign employed a grassroots approach, involving group discussions, sensitization sessions, and interactive knowledge-sharing forums to educate stakeholders about the responsible use of antimicrobials in livestock. It also emphasized practical steps, such as adhering to withdrawal periods, practicing good husbandry, and adopting biosecurity measures to reduce the misuse of antibiotics.
Impact Metric
Climate resilience in livestock systems
The livestock Emergency guidelines and standards (LEGs) provides minimum standards and guidelines for use in humanitarian emergencies that impact livestock. The handbook supports the livelihoods of livestock keeping communities affected by emergencies. And prioritizes lower-and middle-income countires and aims to improve the quality of emergency humanitarian response.
Launching this handbook in our ecosystem is an attempt to shed light on standard guidelines for designing humanitarian interventions that impact livestock in marginalized and disadvantaged communities.
It brings critical discussions to the table that drives actions towards promoting standard livestock emergency response for sustainable food systems and building climate Resilience.
Youth Inclusion in Livestock Systems
- Supporting Youths Advocacy in Livestock Systems
- Driving Capacity Building and Empowerment
Gender Equity and Social Inclusion
- Strengthening women inclusion through capacity development and empowerment
- Driving capacity building for Livestock Workforce Strengthening
This program was aimed to support women backyard poultry farmers with capacity development and Input support to help increase their efficiency and productivity. Giving participants basic training on poultry production and start up support in form of inputs.