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Marial Lou Livestock Training Center

Establishment

The Livestock Training Center (LTC) is located at Marial Lou in Tonj County, at the heart of the livestock rich Bahr El Ghazal region of southern Sudan. The Center, established by Law as a training institute of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Animal Resources, has grown from an emergency veterinary Training Institute (the Southern Sudan Animal Health Auxiliary Training Institute: SSAHATI) initially established and managed by VSF Belgium since 1996, into a full scale Livestock Training Center with the support of USAID under the Southern Sudan Agriculture revitalization Program (SSARP).

The new outfit established by the LTC Act (2004) is a locally owned and managed semi-autonomous corporate body.  VSF Belgium is still a key partner to the LTC and continues to provide technical and material support to the institutional development of the LTC and specifically to nurture the animal health department of the center.

   
 

Vision

Center of Excellence in Livestock Based Training and Development.

Mission

'To Develop, Promote and Deliver Responsive Training and Technology to Enhance Sustainable Development in the New Sudan’.

Objectives of the LTC

  1. Contribute to achievement of sustainable economic development.
  2. Ensure livestock based training gives due regard to environment and sustainability;
  3. Improve livelihoods through livestock training that contributes to poverty eradication;
  4. Encourage livestock outreach training to ensure widest possible stakeholders’ participation in livestock production and veterinary services;
  5. Provide greater public awareness on the cultural, economic and social benefits of the livestock sector;
  6. Promote and popularize livestock training by various means, especially through schools and other educational establishments; and
  7. Ensure that environmental costs, benefits and values are reflected in the design and implementation of all training programs.

Mandate of the LTC

  1. Provides both residential and outreach training activities; open to all persons in the New Sudan.
  2. Charges fees for training and related services that it provides.
  3. English language is the official medium of instruction; other appropriate training languages may be used where the context demands
  4. Diplomas and Certificates are warded – the Diploma Program is in the conception phase