Component | Strategy | Recommendations |
| Grazing and pasture resource management | 1: Measuring and monitoring grazing resources | - Introduce pastoral resource assessments
- Pasture mapping
- Pasture probes
- Better data on livestock and pasture
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| 2: Grassland managment | - Pasture tenure
- Reserved grazing areas
- Improving grassland productivity
- Soil degradation
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| Winterfeeding | 3: Feed and fodder production & management | - Introduce hay to feeding routine
- Oats production
- Manure application
- Feed concentrates
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| 4: Fodder markets, banks and emergency funds | - Create household hay reserves
- Emergency fodder stocks
- Emergency cash fund
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| Livestock production, breeding and health | 5: Animal production and breeding | - Piloting 'improved' yak and sheep varieties
- Create 'elite' herds and flocks
- Develop multipurpose indicators of animal resilience
- Yak and sheep body condition measurements
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| 6: Animal health | - Better veterinary care
- Disease monitoring and livestock census
- Upgrading the skills of herder technicians
- Adopting vaccinations to real stock numbers
- Timing of parasite control
- More active role for herders' associations and family enterprises
- Herder technicians and veterinary staff involvement in early warning and rapid reaction
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| Encouraging herder resilience to pastoral risk | 7: Early warning and rapid reaction system for PRM | - Develop locally adapted risk assessment and management plans
- Forecast risk of winter-spring feed shortage and other over-winter risk
- Winter preparedness and risk forecast bulletins
- Adjusting the livestock-feed balance
- Emergency responses
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| 8: Improved housing and infrastructure | - Government extends 4 Counter Measures programme with the target that all households possess a winter barn by 2010
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| 9: Promoting herder cooperation | - Raise awareness
- Promote demonstrations of collaborative actions
- Define responsibilities/tasks of local stakeholder groups in PRM
- Recognize importance of informal groups and their comparative advantages
- Training and capacity building
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| Policy and institutional frameworks for PRM | 10: Mainstreaming PRM within a reshaped pastoral economy | - Integrate pastoral risk management into the provincial 11th five year plan;
- Integrate into the DAAH 11th five year plan
- Scaling up the Agenda into the Three River conservation programme via DAAH;
- Integrate PRM with the national poverty reduction programme.
- Link PRM into the 'national natural disaster management strategy'
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| 11: Financing PRM | - Government financing
- Private finance
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| 12: Improving governance for PRM | - Strengthen governmental functions and capacity in PRM
- Build up partnerships between government, herder and community organisations
- Strengthen stakeholder coordination
- Bottom-up risk management planning
- Strengthen the pastoral extension service
- PRM fund management
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