HPG: Livelihoods, Livestock and Humanitarian Response: the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards

This Network Paper discusses livelihoods-based livestock programming and its role in humanitarian emergency response. It highlights the importance of taking livelihood assets, in particular livestock, into account in responding to emergencies, and describes how the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) Project has been developed to support this process.

The paper begins with a discussion of the role of livestock in livelihoods and the potential links between livestock and other emergency responses. Chapter 2 presents a summary of the LEGS Project, describing the origins, scope and contents of the guidelines. Chapter 3 contains case studies from Ethiopia and Iran of livestock-based emergency interventions, which are reviewed against the guidelines. Chapter 4 discusses the key issues arising from the development of the guidelines and standards and highlighted by the case studies.

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