Use of Sustainable Livelihoods Approaches

The 5-year DELIVERI project (1996-2001) aimed to improve livestock services to poor farmers throughout Indonesia primarily through reforming the Government of Indonesia's Directorate General of Livestock Services (DGLS) and its provincial and district organs. While pre-dating the widespread adoption of the SL approach, the project incorporated many SL principles.

DELIVERI worked simultaneously at field level, piloting new approaches to service delivery in four pilot districts, and with local, regional and national livestock service planners and policy makers, using the results to influence policy and regulatory changes. The project brought together farmers, policy makers, planners and private-sector service providers to find new approaches to service delivery at field level, encouraging the government livestock department to views poor farmers as its clients, and its role as facilitating private-sector agents to deliver services, rather than delivering them itself.

An impact evaluation at the end of the project demonstrated remarkable changes in behaviour and budget allocation within the government services, and many of the approaches developed by the project were adopted within a much broader World Bank funded District Development Programme (the Kabupaten Governance Reform Initiative Program).