Integrated emergency livestock assistance to drought affected farming families

Priority was given to administrating de-worming medicine and providing concentrated animal feed, fast-growing fodder crop, trainings on livestock husbandry best practices, livestock management, animal disease and fast-growing fodder crop cultivation as the main activities.

• Outcome: The livestock production of vulnerable drought-affected livestock owners and pastoralists in Balkh and Jawzjan provinces is improved.
  • Output 1: 4 400 drought-affected smallholder farming households received emergency livestock packages and trainings, including distributed 100 kg of concentrated animal feed to each household (710 tonnes in total); provided 3 kg of fodder seed to each household (21.3 tonnes in total); trained 17 implementing partner staff and 17 Directorate of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock (DAIL) extension staff on good livestock practices, who then trained all the targeted beneficiaries; trained 7 100 people, of whom 377 were female, on good practices in animal husbandry and livestock management.