cathy watson - the livestock emergency guidelines and standards: emerging lessons and challenges
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livelihoods-based livestock interventions in disasters
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards: Emerging Lessons and Challenges
IDRC Davos 2012 Cathy Watson, LEGS Coordinator
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One billion people depend on livestock for their livelihoods, food security and nutrition
Many of them are vulnerable to disasters
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What is LEGS?
Aim of LEGS:
To improve support to small-scale livestock keepers in disasters
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Origins of LEGS
• Concern to improve quality of disaster response for small-scale livestock keepers
• Draws on lessons from Sphere
• Evidence-based best practice
• Practical tools
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• Handbook
• Sphere ‘companion module’
• Training programme:
– 12 TOTs: 204 LEGS Trainers
– 78 LEGS Trainings in 20 countries: >1500 people
• Standard for emergency planning, e.g. Kenya, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Thailand
Outputs and Outcomes
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Lessons and Challenges
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Lesson 1: The Importance of the Livelihoods Approach in Disaster Response
• Builds on local knowledge and strategies
• Investing in livestock responses impacts on: nutrition, income, cost- effectiveness
• Holistic thinking beyond sequences and sectors
• Drawing on range of frameworks: DCM; DRR; HFA; OH
• Challenges:
– Thinking beyond food aid
– Different departments, policies, funding
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Lesson 2: The Importance of Coordination
• Vital for effective response • LEGS promotes collaboration between key
stakeholders: – Among livestock practitioners – Between livestock and humanitarian agencies – Between humanitarian responses and longer-term
development
• LEGS models coordination and collaboration: – Multi-agency Steering Group – Range of donors – Mailing List and consultation process
• Challenges: – Organisational, institutional and policy barriers
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Lesson 3: The Importance of an Evidence Base
• Evidence base vital to:
– Ensure LEGS offers practical support based on best practice
– Make the case for livestock responses
• LEGS consultation process
• Challenges:
– Obtaining quality information
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Lesson 4: The Importance of Responding to Local Priorities
• LEGS participatory tools identify local priorities, inform response
• Livestock often prioritised
• Challenges:
– Balancing local, national, international interests
– E.g. focus on zoonoses: danger of overlooking local priorities
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To conclude…
• Positive progress: – Practical support to small-scale livestock keepers:
• Improved quality of response
• Reduced vulnerability to future disasters and increased preparedness and resilience
– Raising profile of livestock responses in debate and action
• Challenges remain but change is taking place
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• African Union
• Department for International Development (UK)
• European Commission
• European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO)
• Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
• Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations
• International Committee for the Red Cross
• Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID
• Oxfam GB
• Trócaire
• Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium
• World Society for the Protection of Animals
• Vetwork UK (overall coordination)
Donors
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Credit: Stephen Blakeway
www.livestock-emergency.net