Live2Africa narrative technical report: January 2017 – October 2018

This report covers implementation of the Live2Africa Project from its inception in January 2017 to October 2018. The Project suffered a slow start due to delays incurred by a protracted recruitment process that was conducted in line with African Union rules and regulations. As the first Steering Committee of the Project underscored, this served to further increase the lapse of time since Project conceptualization and formulation (2015) and the Project commencement to four years. The livestock sector is dynamic and much has changed since 2015. AU-IBAR took a practical approach to the delays, and instituted limited activities mostly under Result 2: Animal Health Delivery Systems are Improved; which provided some leverage. However the strong recommendation from the Project Steering Committee was that the Project activities and budget be revised and refocused for relevance and coherence.