Rural programmes

The International Labour Organization/Japan Promoting and Building Income Security and Employment Services in Asia (2nd phase): Focus on Mongolia, Learning from ASEAN Experiences (MAPS) Project aimed to contribute towards the extension of social protection in Mongolia. The project’s second component focused on helping the Government and social partners to design employability and income security measures for rural youth, as well as income security measures for older people (herders, self-employed and informal economy workers) and to improve the delivery of those services.

The strategies and outcomes of the pilot programme for rural youth that was implemented in one soum in Bayankhongor and Uvurkhangai aimags aimed at enhancing the employment and income security of young herders. The pilot programme set out to address challenges faced by herders in terms of gaining productive employment and income security by emphasizing an integrated approach.

The implementation of the pilot programme in the two selected locations (Galuut and Nariinteel soums) commenced in July 2015 and was completed in May 2016 (with a design phase starting in June 2014). It targeted 90 young herders’ households (with members aged younger than 35 years), which belonged to six herders’ cooperatives in the two selected soums.

PUBLICATIONS:

Technical report of the pilot programmes for increasing income security of rural youth in Bayankhongor and Uvurkhangai aimags of Mongolia (in english, in mongolian)

Local Business Development: Manual for young herders (self-learning manual in mongolian)

Livestock product: Processing of diary products (self-learning manual in mongolian)

Livestock product: Processing of meat products (self-learning manual in mongolian)

Livestock product: Processing of sheep and yak wool (self-learning manual in mongolian)

Livestock product: Skin processing (self-learning manual in mongolian)

MyCoop: Managing your agriculture (Training package - four modules and trainers manual in mongolian)

Module 1. Basics of an agricultural cooperative

Module 2. Cooperative service provision

Module 3. Supply of farm inputs

Module 4. Cooperative marketing

Trainer's manual

21st Century Herders (self-learning manuals in mongolian)

          Module 1. Available government support to hersders

          Module 2. Livestock rearing

          Module 3. Livestock breeding

          Module 4. Pasture management

          Module 5. Preparation of hay and natural feed

          Module 6. Livestock health and veterinary services

          Module 7. Risk management

          Module 8. Herders' groups and cooperative development

          Module 9. Improvement of income and productivity through enhanced skills in product making