FAO/ Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI)
In 2001, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations launched the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) to facilitate and support the formulation and implementation of livestock-related policies and institutional changes that have a positive impact on the world’s poor. To achieve this goal, the Initiative combines stakeholder engagement with research and analysis, information dissemination, and capacity strengthening.
A central facility of the PPLPI, funded by the UK Department for International Development, has been established at FAO headquarters in Rome with the responsibility of guiding and co-ordinating the Initiative’s activities, and with the ambition to become a point of reference for livestock-related pro-poor policy development.
In order to cover the different levels of policy-making, extending from international, through regional and national to sub-national levels, and to engage directly with relevant stakeholders, the Initiative complements the work of the central facility with active participation in selected policy processes in a number of strategically chosen ‘focus areas’.
