Livestock is an integral part of Afghanistan's culture and rural livelihoods, with most village households keeping at least a few sheep or chickens. However, the number of these is declining. There is a need to enhance livestock productivity and strengthen relevant value chains in villages. Hereby CRDSA along with our donor FAO has been taken a project under work since the month of Feb by the name of “Anticipatory livelihood protection to minimize drought impacts and safeguard food security” and the key outputs are listed below:
Output 1: Livelihoods and food security of 1904 vulnerable marginal herding, landless, women-headed, and persons with disability households protected through provision of emergency livestock protection package assistance.
Output 2: Awareness of all the beneficiaries mentioned above on key protection messages and on COVID-19 and important livestock diseases safety measures to adopt in livelihood practices, during market participation, and in general appropriate preventive practices for minimizing transmission.
The project’s so far accomplishments are:
Coordination and the division of ration for each CDCs in three districts.
Survey the villages by using KOBO Collect application to find the eligible HHs.
Holding the training about animal Husbandry and how to use the livestock package on the village level.
Distribution of 200 Kg/Household to 954 HHs in the Kushk-e-Kohna district of Herat province.
Distribution of 200 Kg/Household to 475 HHs in Pushtrod district of Farah province.
Distribution of 200 Kg/Household to 475 HHs in Qala-e-Kah of Farah province.
