Livestock emergency guidelines and standards

Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) is a set of international guidelines and standards for designing, implementing, and evaluating livestock interventions to help people affected by humanitarian crises. It seeks to harmonize relief and development programming to allow development professionals to help communities to become more resilient to disasters.

LEGS's key focus is to improve the quality of humanitarian interventions. However, the vulnerability of livestock keepers to disasters is determined by a range of socio-economic, political, environmental, and demographic factors, and humanitarian work cannot ignore these issues nor the need to link itself with development and with long-term policy changes to reduce vulnerability. Humanitarian work must also take account of the future possible impacts of climate change on livestock keepers, including increased risks of disasters.