The department is committed to support its Clients in transforming their crop, livestock and irrigation sectors into efficiently managed, highly productive systems that are sustainable, support growth, and bring about prosperity to rural families.

Combining community development with natural resources management is a strategic element for reducing rural poverty. Through an integrated and cross-sectoral approach, GITEC is promoting watershed management and desertification control by means of forest management and sustainable land use systems.

The department steadily expanded its services in institutional development, policy advice, programme formulation and training and extension. Within that scope, a wide range of capacity building activities such as formal and informal training, in-country study tours and training abroad is being implemented.

Rural Livelihood

¨ Community Development

¨ Farmer Organizations and Village Institutions

¨ Social and Rural Infrastructure

¨ Food Security and Poverty Alleviation

¨ Rural Finance

Agriculture

¨ Crop Intensification and Diversification (rainfed and irrigated)

¨ Livestock Production and Animal Health

¨ Participatory Irrigation Management

¨ Agricultural Support Services and Marketing

¨ Agricultural Engineering

Forestry

¨ Forest Resources Assessment and Monitoring

¨ Afforestation and Reforestation

¨ Forest Planning and Management

¨ Social and Community Forestry

¨ Policy, Programmes and Institutions

Natural Resources Management and Environment

¨ Land Use Planning and Management

¨ Soil and Water Conservation

¨ Desertification Control

¨ Watershed Management

¨ Resource Economics