Community Empowerment in Livestock Resource Planning : A Suggested Participatory Policy Framework
Contents: Foreword. I. Background and framework: 1. Background, methodology and summary findings. 2. Empowering communities in livestock resource planning and decision-making: a suggested participatory policy framework. II. Case study papers: 3. Parameters for local-level livestock development planning: a study in Himachal Pradesh, India/Ranveer Singh. 4. Livestock resource management system for local planning/decision-making in the hills of Nepal: a case study from Kaski district/Pradeep M. Tulachan. III. Country papers: 5. Local livestock resource planning in Bhutan/Tashi Samdup and Koinchok Wangdi. 6. Livestock sector development in mountain areas: planning tools and strategies for Uttaranchal, India/Vir Singh. 7. Local livestock resource planning process in Himachal Pradesh/Ram Gopal Verma and Ramesh Gupta. 8. Local livestock resource planning in the hills of Nepal/Laxman Sherchand, Neel P.S. Karki and Kamal R. Gautam. 9. District livestock service planning: the case of Kabhre district, Nepal/Bharat B. Khadka, Tika R. Neupane and Shiv Bahadur KC. 10. Livestock resource planning in Kotli district, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan/Muhammad S. Khan and Kabir H. Tahir. IV. Project papers: 11. Integrated Cattle-Breeding Project in Sikkim, India/Sonam Paljor. 12. Participatory systems learning and planning process: experience of the Third Livestock Development Project, Nepal/Purna B. Chemjong. V. I/NGOs papers: 13. Participatory project planning process: LI-BIRD’s experience and lessons learned/Ram B. Rana, Hari D. Joshi and Anil Subedi. 14. Annapurna Conservation Area Project: approaches to and implications for livestock planning in resource-scarce environments/Bhaskar S. Karki. 15. Importance of natural resource management for livestock: case study from Sankhuwasabha district, Nepal/Kamala Gurung. Annex: Participatory policy framework for community empowerment in livestock resource planning: suggested outline.
