SAPPLPP invites organizations, programmes and institutes working in Bangladesh, Bhutan and India to submit a brief description of good practices related to the rearing and management of small ruminants (goats and sheep). Practices and approaches submitted under this call should have been under implementation for a sufficient period of time to demonstrate lessons for replication and further up-scaling, and should have clear benefits to poor and marginalized communities. Practices and approaches can relate to any stage of the small ruminant value chain (breeding, feeding, management and health care, and product marketing). Good practices are to be submitted in a format available on the SAPPLPP website (http://www.sapplpp.org) by 15th March 2010 to skoyyana@sapplpp.org. Short-listed Good Practice owners will be invited to present the main elements of the practice to an eminent jury, and following final selection will be documented as a Good Practice by SAPPLPP, for subsequent dissemination to rural development practitioners and policy developers.

The South Asia Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Programme (SAPPLPP) was established with the objective of facilitating and contributing to the development of pro-poor livestock policy and programme implementation. Major activities include the identification and documentation of good practices related to common land development and benefits to livestock rearing, small-holder poultry and small ruminant rearing; collating lessons learnt and disseminating these for policy development and replication. SAPPLPP is being implemented in Bangladesh, Bhutan and India working through programme partners (BRAC in Bangladesh; the Department of Livestock Services, Government of Bhutan and BAIF Development Research Foundation in India).