Securing Livelihoods in the Cattle Corridor project

Donor: Rockefeller Foundation

Duration: 2012, Three years

Introduction. Recent reports show that the Uganda cattle corridor is experiencing unusually long dry spells, with grass withering, water sources either drying or water volumes receding every year, and soils becoming increasingly unproductive resulting in negative impacts on animal and agricultural production. The proposed project built on the IDRC-funded project in Nakasongola and Nakaseke districts that identified critical livelihood challenges faced by the livestock keepers.

Overall objective. To improve and secure livelihoods in the Uganda cattle corridor through ecosystem management.

Specific Objectives:

• To determine the livelihood–specific strategies and priorities for improving ecosystem management and securing improved livelihoods
• Introduce and promote functional and sustainable village level innovation platforms as strategic knowledge and innovations exchange points in the communities
• Pilot specific strategies and innovations for improved ecosystems management and ensuring improved livelihoods of communities.
• Out-scale the promising and more successful strategies and innovations for wide-scale impact

Key Outputs. The project has (a) profiled the livelihoods of the communities, determined the communities’ livelihood–specific strategies and priorities and has embarked on introduction and setting up of village level innovation platforms as strategic knowledge and innovations exchange points in the communities. It is also piloting specific strategies and innovations for improved livelihoods resilience of the communities.  It will also out-scale the promising and more successful strategies and innovations for wide-scale impact.