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PENAPH – First technical workshop
12 December, 2012
Murad Ali
Senior Programme Officer,
Brooke India
Participatory Impact Assessment of Animal Health Through Collective Action
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The Brooke: An overview
• The Brooke is an International animal welfare charity
founded in 1934 by Dorothy Brooke, wife of a Cavalry
General
• The Brooke is dedicated to improving the lives of
working horses, mules and donkeys
• The Brooke India is an affiliate of Brooke UK, working
in 8 states of India through 30 units, covering .23
million equine population
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Introduction:
• Animal health and welfare problems are diverse and
often very specific to the context in which the animal
works
• Various methods are being applied to assess the health
and welfare status of animals
• Brooke India evolved an innovative participatory
process to assess the status of animal health,
husbandry practices and related resources, called
“Participatory Welfare Need Assessment”- PWNA
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Introduction:
PWNA is set of participatory tools which facilitates
communities to:
� develop their own indicators for assessing equine
health and welfare,
� identify their issues and;
� taking collective action to improve husbandry
practices and health status of their animals
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Participatory Welfare Need Assessment (PWNA) 5
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Steps of PWNA
1 Build understanding on health and welfare of animals
2 Develop assessment Protocol
3 Transect walk & Recording
4 Analysis and Collective action:
5 Repeat transect walk to observe the changes/impact
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Process: Step-1- Building understanding on animal welfare
• Mobilize equine owners into “Equine Welfare Group”
• Build understanding on five freedom
• Build understanding on welfare issue through:
� horse puzzle game,
� children art competition,
� body mapping etc.
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Step-2 : Developing Assessment Protocol 8
“If I were a horse” an animal centric tool used to finalize assessment criteria with the community
Horse in the center
What do you expect from owners?
Present status about expectation fulfillment in 0-10 scale ?
Effect when expectation were not met
Effect, where it can be seen in animal body, practice and resources
Putting own-self at the place of animal and start with expectations from its owner to enable the community to identify health and welfare needs.
Putting own-self at the place of animal and start with expectations from its owner to enable the community to identify health and welfare needs.
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Field exercise : “If I were a horse”
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“If I were a horse”: Output
Husbandry practice related
Animal related
Resource related
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Symbol Means
●●● Green circle for good welfare status
●●● Blue/yellow circle for average welfare status
●●● Red circle reflect as poor welfare status
An understanding on scoring/marking method developed
Type of indicator /criteria developed
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Step-3: Transect walk and Recording Use of “Traffic Light” tool for transect walk and recording 11
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Transect walk and recording 12
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Step- :4 Analysis and Collective action
List of
indicators Name of owners Total
1 2 3 4
A ● ● ● ●
B ● ● ● ●
C ● ● ● ●
D ● ● ● ●
E ● ● ● ●
Total
To analyse prevalence of issues of the community
Root cause analysis of issues
Collective action to address issue followed by developing village action plan
To analyse animal/owners wise ranking
Inspiring best performing owners / prize distribution
After the transect walk community members sit along
with staff to analyze the chart of transect walk
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Step-5: Repeat the transect walk on regular interval
• Transect walk on regular intervals helps analyze the changing trend
in each indicator
• Based on need and increasing sensitivity towards animals health
and welfare, the indicators and process of transect walk keeps
changing
• Action plan developed based on contributing factors such as
season, work load, feeding practices, internal and external
influences
• Best performing owners, communities, sub-districts awarded on
regular interval on the basis of positive changes
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Repeated transect
Regular transect walk on same chart
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Meeting and prize distribution
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Main Results / Impact
• Numbers and type of assessment criteria/indicators changed
according to situations, need and awareness level of the community
• Scoring/transect methods and process of analysis changed after
sensitization of community
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√ X or √ Binary
● ● ● Traffic light score
0,5,10 or 1-10
Numerical scoring
1,4,3 / 7,10,15
Weighting according to importance of indicators/issues
Mostly animal based
indicators
Indicators covering animals, practices and
resources
Reducing numbers of indicators based on sensitivity
Indicators based on their severity
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Main Results / Impact
• Software based aggregation and analysis of PWNA/transect
walk data at district level by categorizing indicators and using
them for comparative analysis between villages and districts
• These analysis helps uncovering higher level factors
responsible for the positive and negative status of working
equine
• Responsibility of carrying out transect walk and their analysis
handed-over from staff to communities based institutions
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Staff led at village level
Equal involvement of staff and Community
Community led at Village level
Association led at sub district level
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Main Results / Impact
• Visible improvement in the health & welfare of animals such
as improved body condition, reduction in wound etc.
• The process builds capability of local community in:
� early recognition of negative changes and diseases of
animals and;
� taking prompt and effective action
• Improvement in husbandry practices such as cleaning of
stable, grooming, feeding, watering have also seen.
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• Observation of each others animals by group members during
transect walk helps:
� creating peer pressure to act towards better care of
animals
� promoting mutual learning and;
� strengthening the problem solving capacity of the
communities
Incremental improvement in health and welfare status have
been seen in whole process
Main Results / Impact
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Conclusion
• A sustainable impact on working equines health and welfare status,
resources and husbandry practices through regular collective
assessment of animals and analysis of finding and acting upon it
• Understanding the trends of equine welfare indicators and their
contributing factors to equine welfare at various level helps Brooke India
strategize its programmatic approach
• PWNA emerged as one of the key process of empowering equine owing
community towards better equine welfare in sustainable manner
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THANK YOU !