Rural Animal Health Business Project

A man and three boys stand at the doors of a shop with several bags of animal health products outside. The text across the bottom of the image reads "Rural Animal Health Business Project".

Solution

Country: Nigeria 🇳🇬

Launch date: 2012

Focus Area: Building access to structures of support and capacity building

Stage: Scaling

Summary

The Rural Animal Health Project empowers small agro-veterinary (agrovet) businesses—veterinary retail stores in rural communities—with animal health business management training, climate-smart cold chain infrastructure for vaccine supply, and direct linkages to Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs), creating a scalable, last-mile delivery system for affordable, high-quality animal healthcare for smallholder livestock farmers across Nigeria.

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