active· Food Security

Technical Assistance for Leasehold Forest and Livestock Development

Technical Assistance programme to be implemented through a partnership between IFAD and FAO, is proposed. The main objective is to improve the effectiveness of LFLP and support the implementation, institutionalization and scaling up of the poverty reducing leasehold forestry programme in the country. The key activities include: integration of leasehold forestry and livestock development for poverty alleviation, consolidation and improvement of the extension strategies, follow-up the findings of the studies carried out by the ongoing IFAD supported LFLP and FAO supported TCP Project: institutional framework for a greater contribution of forests and trees to poverty reduction, institutionalization of the and livestock development for poverty alleviation and en vironmental conservation, establishment and promotion of a goat breeding centre.