1. Graduating Pashu Sakhies – 6 months

2. Sanjeev Kumar
ASHOKA FELLOW
The Goat Trust
(www.thegoattrust.org)
Community led goat based livelihoods
stregthening:
Experiences of The Goat Trust with 44 grass root
partners

3. Goat and Livelihood
बकरी आधाररत
आजीविका : राष्ट्रीय
पररदृश्य
एक डॉट – १०००० बकरी
गरीबों की गाय Poor man’s cow
गरीबो का ATM (एनी टाइम मनी)
चलती फिरती िसल – Walking Crops
चलता फिरता फ्रीज -Moving refrigerator
खुरों पर बैंक – Bank on hooves
गरीबों का बीमा – Poor Man’s insurance
कजज नाशक – Debt Repayer
गरीबों का शुद्ध सोना – चााँदी

4. ४४००० बकरी पालक
११ राज्य में

6. Major problems and solutions Suggested –
Problems (effect) Cause Solutions tested out
High mortality/morbidity Financial and non financial
constraints to adopt
improved practices, Less
accessibility to first aid
services and Knowledge
Village based trained women
(called Pashu Sakhi) to
enhance best practices
/knowledge, provide first aid
services and regular training
& monitoring , Community
Insurance
Genetic degradation/
Low quality of goats
Least focus on Improved
buck breeding in goats
Awareness and creation of
paid service providers ,
Selective kids nursery
Feed scarcity and
seasonal stress
Low awareness on
alternative feed and non
existence of fodder
cultivation & preservation
PRA based analysis of feed
seasonality, kidding
seasonality and disease
analysis and develop a short
and long term plan
Low share of producers in
consumer level meat price
growth
Absence of transparent system
of price estimation of goats .
Skewed information exchanges
Live body weight based price
estimation , We based marketing
(Pashubajaar.com)

7. Our essential shifts from existing approaches
 Facilitating community led support system development Not
distributing goat as assets first
 Focus on replacement of low quality goats with productive
goats
 Facilitate PRA based problem analysis (Feed,
disease/kidding seasonality) before making Goat rearers
Group (GRG)
 Starting from what fits livelihood basket not imposing a unit
size
 Role of women in non traditional area of animal health
management (Livestock Nurse concept)
 Community based insurance to demystify insurance
process and create accountability
 Value addition to goat manure by processing & packaging
and branding it
 Transparency in Market valuation (Live body weight pricing

8.  Pashu Sakhi (Livestock Nurse)
 Community Livestock Managers
 Community based Goat Risk protection (SSY)
 Shepherd’s Field School (Bakari Paalak
Paathshaala )
 High quality Goat kid Nursery Management
 Sand based non electric Duck egg incubator
 Packaged goat manure
 Live body weight market facilitation
(pashubajaar.com)
 Artificial Insemination in Goats
 Bakari Bank on wheels
Key Innovations at The Goat Trust

9. Pashu Sakhi led Livestock Extension Services
Transforming from helplessness to an
effective change Facilitator
Pashu sakhi
Pashu Nurse
Helpless women goat farmer

10. Operational Area at a glance – Nov 2014
STATE DISTRICT PARTNER NO OF PASHU
SAKHI
UTTAR
PRADESH
Rae Bareli, Sitapur, Unnao,
Balia, Bareilley, Bahrraich,
Banda, Mahoba, shrawasti,
Moradabad, Varanasi
DRF, Vishwas, ADP –
World Vision, AKF, TCL,
4 Bundelkhand partners
250
JHARKHAND West Singhbhum, Ranchi JSLPS , 161
RAJASTHAN Alwar, Dausa, Ajmer, Tonk,
Udaipur, Dungarpur, Pratapgarh,
Bundi
Ibtada & 5, IGWDP
(NABARD), World Vision,
PRADAN, CmF
225
MADHYA
PRADESH &
CG
Sagar, Hoshandabad, Khandwa,
Chattarpur, Amarwara, Bilaspur
WVI-Bhopal,AKRSP,
DMKS
225
KARNATAKA Bijapur World Vision 60
WEST
BENGAL
Chitranjan , Salboni FYF, DRF 50
BIHAR Muzzafarpur, Madhubani, Betiah CRS, GDS, TCL, FnF 20
Maharashtra Ahmadnagar, Tadoba DRF,BGVK 40
Total 1031