Activity 5: Provision of Decision-Support Tools

The purpose of analytical tools is to equip decision-makers to analyse critical livestock-environment-poverty interactions, to perform an ex-ante analysis of considered policy and technology options and for use in the formulation of policies. The needs of decision-makers at all levels in the process will be identified, from village level through to local and national government levels, and tools will be tailored accordingly.

The following analytical and policy formulation tools will be provided:

• participatory planning approaches involving local communities, government and other stakeholders
• social impact analysis tools
• drought insurance model
• planning tools for drought preparedness and rehabilitation
• cost-benefit analysis of integrated livestock wildlife systems
• models for the design of benefit-sharing mechanisms
• spatial analysis for the identification of hot spots and for priority setting
• model to calculate water usage by production systems