1 Better Health and Husbandry Better Health and Husbandry for Working Animals:for Working Animals:

Practical experience in enhancing supply of Practical experience in enhancing supply of

and demand for servicesand demand for services

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1934 in Cairo1960s Egypt

1988 Petra, Jordan1990 India

1991 Pakistan2001 Kenya

2003 Afghanistan2004 Guatemala

2006 Ethiopia2006 Israel and the West Bank

2008 Nepal2009 Senegal

3 Content

• An introduction to the Brooke

• What we can offer

• A brief view of the delivery side of the work

• Advocacy – a relatively new area for us

• Examples of collaboration

• Potential areas for future collaboration

4 What does the Brooke bring to the table?

• Practical in nature

• Able to work at local, national and international

levels

• Veterinary, animal welfare & research expertise

• Skills and experience from the human development sector

• Certain flexibility to be innovative with unrestricted funding

• Openness to learn both within

and outside of the animal

welfare sector

• Ability to measure outcomes in

animal welfare

5 Enhancing the Demand for and Supply of Services and Resources

• Improving health and welfare of working animals requires a practical approach, grounded in the economic reality of the farmers, traders and householders who own and use them

The Brooke works on three elements:

– Creating or enhancing demand for resources and services which

benefit working animals

– Improving sustainable supply of these resources and services

– Linking up demand with supply

6 Creating Demand

• Organise groups of animal owners

• Initiate group savings scheme

• Identify diseases, causes and actions

• Analyse locally available animal health services

• Prepare community action plan

• Monitor collectively and take corrective action. Peer group review

7 Improving Supply

• Influencing government vet services to include equids

• Training of service providers

• Building supply chains for resources

• Enabling groups of animal owners to supply from within their own locality

• identify seasonal alternative resources: Analysis of Feeding Practices exercise (India)

• investigate better use of existing resources: pilot project on utilising crop residues for disaster risk reduction in drought-prone areas (Ethiopia)

8 Linking Demand with Supply

Individual animal owners

Groups of animal owners

Community animal health workers

(Private)

Interested government vets and

training institutes (Public)

Government vets with specialist training in equine issues (Public)

Trained community animal health workers and farriers who will offer discounted services (Private)

Medicine shops/ agribusinesses selling equine-specific drugs (Private)

Sources of information on equine medicine or animal welfare (research findings, module in curriculum)

NGO role: facilitation and training

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• Clearly demonstrating the links between working animals and

poverty

– Global recession/economic downturn

– Links and effects of climate change

– Food security

– Vulnerable groups

– Engaging the private

sector and public sector

in partnership to improve

equine welfare

Advocacy

10 Examples of collaboration with iNGOs

• Mercy Corps : Pakistan Earthquake (2005)

• Practical Action: Mandera, Kenya (Ongoing)

• WSPA: Various (Ongoing)

• AVSF: Velingara, Senegal (starting 2010)

• Group of Welfare NGOs - negotiated with

government to grant import license for equine drugs through Ethiopian pharmaceutical

company; tourism messages

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• 6th International Colloquium on Working Equids

• Linking AGA and interested NGOs

• Early warning based on disease intelligence and

surveillance

• Guidelines and best practice

• Exchange lessons on collaboration with the private

sector and public sector in animal health in different

developing countries

Areas of future collaboration?

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“We know that for the whole world it might be

only a donkey, mule or horse,

but for the marginalised poor owner it is the

whole world.”

Ganesh Pandey, Convener, Shramik Bharti, Kanpur, India