Services

Technical advisory, investment design, and evaluation for sustainable livestock transformation.

Livestock Futures provides targeted consulting services for partners seeking credible, practical, and financeable livestock solutions. Services can be delivered as short-term technical assignments, embedded advisory roles, project design support, capacity development programs, evaluations, or strategic partnerships.

Climate-smart livestock and carbon finance

Design livestock interventions that improve productivity, strengthen resilience, reduce emissions intensity, and support credible carbon accounting and climate-finance pathways.

Climate-smart livestock strategy and program design
GHG quantification and carbon accounting frameworks
Methane abatement and productivity-linked mitigation concepts
Climate-finance proposal development and investment blueprints
Results frameworks for low-emission, climate-resilient livestock programs

Climate-smart livestock and carbon finance in detail

Animal health, One Health, and pandemic preparedness

Strengthen veterinary services, laboratories, surveillance, workforce capacity, and systems-based One Health approaches for pandemic preparedness and response.

Veterinary service capacity assessment and strengthening
Risk-based surveillance and animal health information systems
Laboratory capacity development and diagnostic systems
Pandemic preparedness and response frameworks
Training in avian influenza, African swine fever, transboundary animal diseases, and emergency response

One Health and pandemic preparedness in detail

Trade access, traceability, and risk analysis

Support safe trade in livestock and agri-food products through risk analysis, e-certification, commodity-based trade, digital traceability, and market-access systems.

Digital traceability system design
E-certification and commodity-based trade support
Risk analysis for animal health and agri-food systems
Veterinary pharmaceutical supply-chain traceability
Market-access readiness assessments and policy advisory

Trade access and traceability in detail

Project development, investment design, and resource mobilization

Develop investment concepts, results frameworks, capacity assessments, evaluation designs, resource mobilization strategies, and implementation roadmaps.

Concept notes and investment proposals
Project appraisal inputs and technical foundations
Stakeholder engagement and public-private dialogue
Technical inputs to economic and financial analysis
Livestock investment facility concepts, including derisked lending and insurance approaches

Project development and investment design in detail

Monitoring, evaluation, learning, and portfolio assessment

Evaluate programs, portfolios, and research-for-development investments using credible criteria, field evidence, and strategic learning products.

Program evaluations using DAC criteria
Quality of Science and QoR4D portfolio evaluations
Case-study and deep-dive evaluations for research and development programs
Evaluation design, questionnaire development, fieldwork, analysis, and reporting
Comparative advantage assessment and strategic learning products

Monitoring, evaluation and learning in detail

Capacity development and knowledge systems

Design training, institutional capacity assessments, technical reports, and policy briefs for veterinary professionals, public agencies, and field teams.

Training design and delivery for veterinary professionals, field teams, and public agencies
Human and institutional capacity assessments
Knowledge products, technical reports, and policy briefs
Participatory approaches for mixed crop-livestock systems and smallholder livestock pathways

Capacity development and knowledge systems in detail

Engagement formats

Flexible support for public agencies, development partners, research institutions, and private innovators.

Services can be scoped as technical studies, proposal development, capacity assessments, stakeholder consultations, investment concept design, training programs, monitoring and evaluation assignments, or retained advisory support.

Short-term assignments

Focused technical assistance, assessments, reviews, and knowledge products.

Project design support

Concept notes, investment frameworks, results frameworks, and implementation roadmaps.

Capacity development

Training and institutional strengthening for veterinary professionals, public agencies, and field teams.

Evaluation and learning

Portfolio assessment, fieldwork, analysis, reporting, and strategic learning outputs.

Common questions

Working with Livestock Futures

How are Livestock Futures assignments usually structured?

Most commonly as short-term technical assignments, project design support, capacity development programmes, or evaluations. Longer embedded advisory arrangements and retained support are also possible where a partner needs continuity rather than a discrete output.

Who does Livestock Futures work with?

Government agencies and veterinary authorities, development partners and financing institutions, research and research-for-development programmes, regional bodies, and private-sector operators in livestock and agri-food value chains.

Which regions are covered?

The practice is based in Kenya with a primary focus on Africa, and takes assignments elsewhere where the underlying systems questions are comparable.

Can several service lines be combined in one assignment?

Yes, and they frequently are. Investment design work usually needs an evaluation and monitoring component; trade access work often depends on animal health system strengthening. Scoping normally starts from the problem rather than from the service list.

How does an engagement begin?

With a conversation about the problem, the decision it needs to inform, and the timeline. That discussion determines whether Livestock Futures is the right fit, and it is a reasonable outcome for the answer to be no.

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Ready to design livestock systems that are productive, resilient, healthy, and investment-ready?

Contact Livestock Futures to discuss advisory support, project development, evaluation, capacity development, climate finance, or strategic partnerships.

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