SRPO PROJECTS - Accelerated Action Plan

Project Goal:

The goal of the AAP is to reduce stunting from 48% to 30% in first five years (by 2021) and 15% by 2026 in Sindh by increasing and expanding coverage of multi-sectoral interventions, that are known to reduce stunting in first five years of children’s lives.

The production sectors (agriculture, livestock, and fisheries) contribute to achieving this goal by increasing the number of households that consume a diverse and healthy diet, especially, those households with pregnant and lactating women (PLWs) and children under the age of 2.

Livestock will contribute by building the livestock (goats+ backyard poultry) assets of poor households, widowed women with children and deprived landless people and enhancing livestock productivity by providing enhanced vaccination and livestock management advisory services to the farmers.

Operational Objectives:

The overall project objective is to reduce the stunting by ensuring the supply of diversified animal origin food and provision of veterinary public health through following specific objectives;

• Social mobilization formation of livestock community organizations.  This will be done jointly if and where applicable with fisheries and agriculture to ensure consistency of messaging and sustainability of the production systems introduced.  The goal is to increase the availability of nutritious food without over-burdening target households with too much additional labor.

• Livestock management and enhanced productivity awareness program to poor and small livestock owners in addition to nutrition sensitive and access to diversified animal origin food awareness to reduce the stunting.

• Vaccination and drenching to the livestock of poor households for food security, public health and enhanced animal productivity.

• Building livestock assets (goats and backyard poultry) of poorest households without livestock (2.3% of MPI), pregnant women with children and nutrition deprived communities.

ACHIEVEMENT