19 November 2008
Lubango — At least 3.3 million Euros will start being spent on a project funded by the European Union (EU) for the improvement of the access to water and to pasture by herding communities of the transhumance corridor in the southern provinces of Huíla, Namibe and Cunene.
On Tuesday, ANGOP learnt of the fact from the administrator of the project, Laurence Burckel, who said that the project is a partnership between the Angolan government and the European Union in favour of pasturing communities of the country's southern region, and shall be officially launched on Thursday in Lubango city, southern Huíla province.
The project shall be implemented along the next three years by "GFA Consulting Group", in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, and it aims at elaborating a management system for sustainable herding and to ease the access to water through the rehabilitation and installing of infrastructures, as well as the upgrading of water and sanitation community groups.
The source said that this project aims at improving the capacity of veterinary services in the elaboration of diagnosis in communities and contribute to the increase of the capacities of cattle breeders.
Its implementation shall be co-ordinated by a committee comprising four international experts and six Angolans, including cattle-breeding technicians.
The project will also have two antennas in the districts covered, namely Bibala (Namibe) and another in Chibemba locality, to follow up the activity in the districts of Gambos (Huíla) and in Cahama, in Cunene province.
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