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The Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock and Nutrition (LAN) Activity is a five-year, $20.5M activity and a follow-on to the Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition (LPIN) Activity, also implemented by ACDI/VOCA. The LAN Activity will sustainably increase livestock productivity, marketability, and consumption of livestock products for improved nutrition and incomes for one million livestock-producing households and firms in the 23 target districts in Bangladesh’s Zone of Influence and Zone of Resilience. To achieve this level of scale and results ACDI/VOCA together with local ICT partner, mPower Social Enterprises Ltd., will use an integrated community-based development and inclusive market systems approach and will co-create solutions with communities and public and private sector actors, effectively leveraging their resources, technologies, and expertise.
Request for Proposal
Call for Applications
Project Objectives
- Increase livestock productivity
- Increase marketability of livestock products at the subnational and national levels
- Increase household consumption of safe and diversified livestock products
- Increase access to financial services, scale ICT solutions, and design activities to ensure social inclusion and empowerment of women, youth, and other marginalized groups in the livestock sector
Project Activities & Approaches
- Provide technical assistance trainings and co-create solutions with livestock households as well as public and private livestock market actors
- Support market actors by coordinating and facilitating linkages among relevant stakeholders, including business-to-business meetings and workshops/forums to plan livestock sector interventions
- Facilitate training and community mobilization events for livestock households and other livestock market actors
- Promote sustainability by engaging the private sector, including women and youth entrepreneurs, through a grant fund
Anticipated Project Results
- Reach 1,000,000 livestock producing households across twenty-three districts
- 100% and 225% increase in milk productivity for local breeds and crossbreeds, respectively
- 70% increase in household consumption of safe, diversified dairy and meat products
- 80% of farmers with increased incomes
Access the Call for Application Guideline here.
Access the Call for Application Form here.
Funder: USAID
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Chief of Party: Muhammad Nurul Amin Siddiquee, nsiddiquee@acdivocalpin.org
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Project Director: Rebekah Bakewicz, RBakewicz@acdivoca.org
Project Specialist, Nick Okerlund, nokerlund@acdivoca.org
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