Guidelines – Policy review and analysis framework (PPLPI)
Promoting the pro-poor development of the livestock sector requires public actions that take into consideration the characteristics and needs of all stakeholders involved in the livestock supply/value chain, as well as the prevailing policy environment that shapes the development of the sector. In several circumstances, however, governments design and implement livestock policies without accounting adequately for existing policies, and often in isolation from, or only loosely connected to the broader policy framework. The FAO Pro-Poor Livestock Policy initiative (PPLPI) has developed a set of guidelines to collate, catalogue and quickly review livestock-related policy documents. The guidelines are primarily meant to help policy and technical officers to assemble a ‘pro-poor livestock policy review’, which assesses whether the national policy framework shaping livestock sector development will contribute to poverty alleviation and, if not, where and how adjustments should be made. These guidelines have been largely developed through PPLPI’s work in Uganda and the IGAD LPI is facilitating their use in Uganda and other IGAD member states, through its national technical focal points.