Over the years, IFAD has developed considerable institutional skills in executing community-based projects which have a positive impact on IFAD’s target group, the rural poor. Livestock and rangeland systems are essential to the livelihoods of the rural poor.
The Livestock and Rangeland Knowledgebase (LRKB) is a product of IFAD’s Thematic Group on Community-Based Management of Natural Resources. It is based on case studies of a range of IFAD projects that support livestock production among pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and smallholders. The Knowledgebase provides easily accessible information on specific projects, as well as offering a deeper, thematic insight into IFAD’s livestock-related activities.
The LRKB is intended to:
- help ensure that improvements in policies, programmes and strategies have a positive influence on the direction and outcome of IFAD’s livestock projects;
- internalize lessons learned, enabling policy-makers to draw on past experience and adopt a systematic approach to monitoring IFAD project successes and failures
- support the management of programmes by ensuring efficient allocation of resources during the project design and monitoring phases
The clients of the LRKB are project planners, policy-makers, front-line staff and Project Management Units (PMUs) involved in the design and implementation of livestock projects. The intention is to provide those clients with interactive means of retrieving valuable information as their knowledge needs evolve.