About Us

Background

The National Livestock Owners Association

is the apex body for all livestock value chainactors of the Gambia. It was formed in a national convergence of all livestock valuechain actors organized by the Gambia Livestock Marketing Agency (GLMA) andtheDepartment of Livestock Services (DLS) of the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) at
Jenoi Agricultural Training Centre on the 15 th of October 2015. During the convergence, the livestock value chain actors were allowed to select their executives with moderation from Mr. Abdoulie Manjang from GLMA and Fafa Chamof DLS. Theactors selected their representatives in a democratic system without interference fromany government institutions or individuals.

Fundamental Pillars

The association serves the entire livestock value chain of the Gambia; it operates on four fundamental pillars, which are:

Livestock Health and Production

Livestock Security and Protection

Livestock commercialization and Marketing

Livestock Environment and Natural Resources

The executives were tasked with the resposibility of advocacy

and lobbying for support for the development of the sector in terms of livestock health facilities, capacity building, vaccinations, medications, auxiliary health training, improved production and management, market infrastructure and facilitation, trade facilitation, livestock security and protection against thefts and

animal cruelty, cattle tracks and graze lands, drinking points among others. This leads to the creation of four vice-presidential positions which are 1st Vice-President- Livestock Health and Production, 2nd Vice-President – Livestock Security and Protection, 3rd Vice-President Livestock Commercialization and Marketing, and 4th Vice-President - Livestock Environment and Natural Resources

WHO WE ARE

Our Mandate, Vision, Mission and Membership

Our Mandate

National Livestock Owners’ Association's mandate is “to economically and socially empower livestock value chain actors for their livelihood development, economic independence, employment,and national food security”

Our Vision

The vision of the National Livestock Owners’ Association is “to Transform the Gambia into a nation self-suf icient in livestock and livestock products”

Our Mission

The mission of the Association is “to provide selfless representation for livestock value chain actors in decision-making processes andserveasa lead institution in lobbying and advocacy for the development of livestock value chain actors for livestockproduction, health, protection, security, commercialization and marketing and availability of stockroutes,drinking points, and grazelands