Informations included in these pages (on the left) deal with objectives, the elaboration process and status of activities. Products are posted in the Products section (when completed).
Themes
The ALive concept is articulated around three strategic and technical themes, closely linked and contributing to each other. The regional vision (Theme 1) will be especially fed by the other two regional and national Themes:
Theme 1: Vision Strategy and Partner Collaboration
Theme 1 operates at the African level to promote and facilitate contributions between key stakeholders, conciliate existing approaches, define a common and shared vision of livestock in SSA and elaborate harmonized strategies. Adopted orientations only provide recommendations as ALive is not intended to create norms as this is the role of relevant institutions (OIE, FAO). However, OIE resolutions acknowledge the ALive platform as an appropriate framework of exchanges and consultations for livestock themes.
Theme 2: Capacity Building and Knowledge Sharing
Theme 2 is developed at the sub-regional level to mitigate institutional, technical and organizational deficiencies of developing countries in the livestock sector.
Theme 3: Analytical Support and Operational Assistance
Theme 3 takes place at the national level to support countries in formulating potential livestock contributions to reduce poverty and sustainable economic growth, favoring integration of these contributions in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) and promoting operationnalisation of formulated recommendations to donors.
These three technical Themes allow to explore of possible paths (ILRI classification) to develop livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa: secure existing capital, market access and promote intensification.
Theme 4:Communication, fund raising and governance
Theme 4 deals with the management of the Partnership itself by allowing General Assemblies to take place (one per year) and Executive Committee meetings (4 per year) as well as missions devoted to the Secretariat by the General Assembly and the Executive Committee of ALive. It is of crucial importance for the platform role ALive intends to play.
Activities
As part of a multi-facet architecture, the first three - year Action Plan for the 2004-2007 period was adopted by the Executive Committee in June 2004. In all, it contains 18 activities and is implemented through annual programs of activities depending on priorities established during General Assemblies.
