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Small livestock transfers: REBA case study brief number 18
Wahenga
November 2007

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Overview

The Small Livestock Project in Zimbabwe transfers livestock such as goats and chickens to vulnerable families in selected rural districts. The project is managed by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Zimbabwe through a partnership with a local NGO called Organisation of Rural Associations for Progress (ORAP).

The project comes under the umbrella of DFID Zimbabwe's Protracted Relief Programme (PRP). The purpose of PRP is to stabilise food security and protect the livelihoods of vulnerable households in Zimbabwe, particularly those affected by HIV/AIDS. PRP is implemented by 12 NGOs (of which CRS is one) and their local partners. The first phase of PRP ran from 2004 to 2007, with a recent extension to 2008. A new phase is in the pipeline for 2008 onwards. In its first phase, the PRP reached about 1.5 million beneficiaries per year within an overall budget of sterling £36 million (US$72 million).

It is a mainly rural-based relief effort intended to support agricultural production through advice and inputs, as well as to provide clean water, and to support destitute people and those living with HIV/AIDS. The small livestock project is just one among a range of agricultural support projects funded by the PRP, including several farm input delivery schemes. The part of the CRS small livestock project reviewed here covers livestock transfers to two districts in Matabeleland called Hwange and Bubi districts. The project began in October 2004, and the two districts considered here were among the earliest to benefit from the transfers, from an intended eventual coverage of 22 districts. By the end of 2006, beneficiaries in the two districts had received 1,634 goats, 10 pigs, 41 sheep, 3,103 chickens, 5,225 guinea fowl and 16 ducks (Dzingirai, 2007: p.12).

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