Herders’ Education Support project
Caritas Czech Republic and Ministry of Food and Agriculture have started Herders’ Education Support Project in 2012 covering Khentii and Sukhbaatar provinces in Mongolia. The project has been undertaken with its purposes to develop newly founded VCBO specialists of all soums under new Government restructure and one leader herder from each soum under the project by organizing designated trainings in order increase knowledge, awareness, skills and experiences in regard to veterinary, cattle breeding, livestock production, pastureland management, agriculture and small and medium enterprises. The specialists and trained herders then teach the younger and less skilled herders whatever they have learned including life skills, less risky herding, how to increase their incomes etc.