Animal health remains fundamental to improved livestock production, productivity, market access, product quality and poverty reduction. The strategy for implementing is to work with pastoralists and other livestock keepers together in controlling transboundary regional, district and village animal diseases using national guidelines and regulations. Further protocols from The International Office for Epizootics (OIE). The strategy will focus on training of livestock keepers and animal health workers to enhance their capacity in the following areas:

animal disease monitoring and early detection dangerous livestock diseases that usually cause high levels of livestock deaths such as Render pest, Contagious bovine pleura pneumonia, Rift Valley Fever, Sheep pox and goat pox, Food and mouth disease, lumpy skin disease, bluetongue and other highly pathogenic avian influenza. The Strategy will emphasise functional surveillance that tracks changes in the epidemiological parameters of such dangerous animal diseases.

The programme will further training paravets or para professionals who are livestock keepers, living in the target communities and they will be equipped with veterinary kits to be able to function within the community. The programme will provide one by circle per para vet to enable them to get around, visiting pastoralists treating their animals. A number of villages will be supervised by ward livestock extension officer who will also supervise the paravets.

Livestock vaccination campaigns will be run to ensure that pastoralist vaccinate their animals on regular basis. PILIDO will coordinate with the District Veterinary Officer to ensure availability, quality and access of veterinary drugs by the local livestock keepers. There is tremendous demand for the para-professional services, and the experience from Arusha  Regions that shows that veterinary supervised para-professionals allow private practices, even in the most remote areas, to be profitable.

Through another programme implemented by PILIDO i.e. governance and management of natural resources, with special focus on joint village grazing clusters, will complement efforts to enhance animal feeds and improve livestock nutrition. Appropriate technologies will be adopted to promote livestock health as feeding is a pre-requisite for good animal health.