Livestock Emergency Guidelines Standards

28 IMPACT OF LEGSTRAINING A survey of LEGS trainers and LEGS training course par ticipants from around the world was carried out in late 2014. Nearly all the trainees who took par t said they rated the training as either extremely useful or quite useful, and all repor ted that they are using the LEGS approach in their work since the training. The feedback on the LEGS training materials was also positive. The LEGS trainers repor ted that the materials are very easy to use and that the TOT prepared them well for delivering the course. The roll-out of over 165 LEGS training courses independently of the LEGS Project is an indicator of the extent to which the LEGS training is considered useful by implementing organizations (see Table 2). Feedback from training course evaluation responses and other sources confirms that the 3-day LEGS training course has a significant impact on the par ticipants’ familiarity with the LEGS Handbook and their ability to apply the LEGS approach in practice. LEGS has brought an important dimension to emergency practices in pastoralist areas: the protection of livestock. A huge capacity development has taken place through a good number of actors. All the key informants interviewed, especially development professionals who had received LEGS training, noted that LEGS had become part of their development and disaster response business. ’ ‘ Coupe and Kisiangani, 2013