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LEGS
Natural and man-made disasters that affect livestock production appear to be on the increase and many livestock-keeping areas now face chronic vulnerability to humanitarian disasters. Globally, the response from donors to such livestock emergencies is primarily humanitarian – typically donor-led, based on food-aid and short-term. There is growing concern that many of these ‘emergency’ interventions are implemented by advisors and practitioners who are often not livestock experts and lack clear guidelines as to what should best be done, when and how and, moreover, that they rarely consider the capacity to respond to such emergencies and, as such, do nothing positive in terms of building the capacity to mitigate their effects in the future.
FAO is contributing towards the development the “Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards” (LEGS), in collaboration with the Feinstein International Centre of Tufts University; the African Union (AU); the International Commission of the Red Cross (ICRC); and Vétérinaires Sans Frontiéres (VSF). The IGAD LPI and FAO’s Animal Production Service (AGAP) are further contributing to this initiative by developing an electronic companion to the LEGS.