Welcome to the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) website
Latest news from LEGS:
- The schedule for the LEGS regional TOT courses has been updated - click here for more details and how to apply
- LEGS Regional TOT courses have been completed for the Horn of Africa and South East Asia
- The first LEGS 3-day training has taken place in Nairobi - click here for details
- LEGS is now available in French! Click here to download the pdf file
- LEGS was one of the innovations featured at the ALNAP 'Innovations Fair in London in November 2009 - click here for details. LEGS is also the subject of one of ALNAP's Innovations Case Studies series - click here to download
- Click here to listen to an interview about LEGS for IRIN News by LEGS Steering Group member Rob Allport
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) have been developed as a set of international guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crises.
The LEGS process...
... grew out of recognition that livestock are a crucial livelihoods asset for people throughout the world, and livestock interventions are often a feature of relief responses. Yet to date, there are no widely-available guidelines to assist donors, programme managers or technical experts in the design or implementation of livestock interventions in disasters
... recognises that climatic trends are causing more frequent and varied humanitarian crises, particularly affecting communities who rely heavily on livestock
.... mirrors the process for developing the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response - the Sphere Project. The process is based on multi-agency contributions, broad reviews and collation of practitioner experience
... has resulted in an independent publication available as hard copy and CD-ROM. Soft copies are also available on this website. LEGS will also run a series of awareness-raising and training events to promote the use and future revision of the standards and guidelines – see LEGS Training page.
... in line with Sphere, LEGS aims to be a dynamic process and will be reviewed and updated every four years; LEGS emphasises the need for better impact assessment of interventions with a view to feeding new lessons learned into the revision process
