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Livestock
Environment and Development (LEAD), India
Media for Sustainable Development
(MSD) unit of CEE would host and manage the LEAD communication
platform in India. The LEAD Communication Platform aims
to support policy makers, planners and implementers
through awareness programs, networking and decision
support tools for livestock development and the resource
management by providing electronic and non-electronic
services.
Livestock Environment and Development
(LEAD) India Platform is a new initiative of LEAD, FAO
to promote research on livestock environment interactions,
create awareness on the complex interactions of human
needs, animal production and the sustainability of global
natural resources. The Platform will promote LEAD concepts
by bringing out posters, newsletters, brochures etc
to facilitate networking, feedback and professional
exchange in the region.
The LEAD India Platform is hosted
jointly by Centre for Environment Education and LEAD
Advocacy Network anchored by Watershed Organization
Trust (WOTR), Maharashtra. As a part of the project
activity, CEE-MSD would be responsible for handling
the LEAD Communication Platform. CEE would also undertake
advocacy and networking . The project is supported by
the CALPI (Capitalisation of Livestock Programme Experiences
India) Programme of Swiss Agency for Development and
Cooperation and the Inter cooperation.
The LEAD India website was launched
on May 6th, 2005 during the National Workshop On Emerging
Policy Issues Under Watershed Programme, in New Delhi.
For more information, please visit www.virtualcentre.org/in
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