Livestock Emergency Guidelines Standards

16 THE LEGS HANDBOOK THE FIRST EDITION The LEGS Handbook was developed through a broad consultation process, under the supervision of the LEGS Steering Group. Individual chapters were written by technical exper ts and reviewed via a web consultation by members of the LEGS mailing list (over 1000 individuals and organizations) and other key informants. The first edition of the LEGS Handbook was launched in May 2009, with events in London, Nairobi and Addis Ababa. It has been translated into French, Spanish and Arabic (both pdf and hard copy), and with the suppor t of World Animal Protection into Thai and Vietnamese (pdf only). THE SECOND EDITION In 2013 a consultation process was launched via the LEGS website and mailing list to gather feedback on the first edition. Briefing papers were commissioned on new issues or key topics that needed enhancing, such as: cash transfers, gender, climate change, animal welfare, livestock in camps, and resilience. The Handbook was thoroughly revised to incorporate the results of the consultation and the findings of these technical reviews. The six technical interventions were retained, as were the cross-cutting issues, core standards and par ticipatory tools, but the chapter on livestock shelter was revised to clarify better how livestock shelter fits within the broader context of human shelter and settlement, and the chapter on restocking was restructured to reflect two key options of replacing livestock assets and building livestock assets. The case studies were expanded and separated into process and impact examples.