Facilitating Futures

How Communities and Markets Are Reshaping the Livestock System

Ethiopian man with camels, stands in dried lake bed.
December 09, 2025
Regional Livestock Program Biannual Digest, January-June 2025 (10.43 MB)

The Regional Livestock Program is a 12-year initiative, with the first phase running between 2023 -2027. The program is led by Mercy Corps in partnership with IGAD, HELVETAS, and Welthungerhilfe, and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD).

The program operates in livestock trade corridors in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Goal of the program is building climate-resilient, inclusive, and sustainable livelihoods for 540,000 pastoralists and market actors across the Horn of Africa. It has just published its annual achievements, progress towards goal, signs of system level change and shifts in behavior change, as well as policy level efforts and progress.

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