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Conduct a Review of the Botswana Livestock Identification and Traceability System
Conduct a Review of the Botswana Livestock Identification and Traceability System
Project Description
The overall objective was to carry out an in-depth analysis of the Botswana Livestock Information and Traceability System (LITS) with the following activities
to analyse the bolus based LITS system
to arrange a stakeholder workshop to get feedback on the expectations of outputs of LITS for the different categories of stakeholders and to include them into the analysis.
Services provided:
- Analysis of the bolus based Livestock Information and Traceability System (LITS) system; the review was done through:
- Consultation – this targeted a wide range of stakeholders in Botswana who had varying responsibilities, perspectives and views
- Evidence collection – during the consultation process a range of data and other evidence associated with issues that stakeholders had experienced while working with the LITS system
- Database review – reviewed by way of sample testing of key automated controls and tracing a sample of transactions through the database, to assess the operation of the LITS application and the database itself
- Analysis – outcomes of the preceding processes were subject to analysis as presented in this report.
- Implementation of a two-days stakeholder workshop to get feedback on the expectations of outputs of LITS for the different categories of stakeholders and to include them into the analysis
- Working out recommendations for the improvement of the LITS in Botswana
