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Strengthening Women's Livestock Cooperatives in Nepal with an Innovative Technology Bundle

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  • Brooks, Matthew S.
  • Lybbert, Travis
  • Magnan, Nicholas
  • Mullally, Conner
  • Shrestha, Bhola

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For over a decade, Heifer Nepal has been developing female-led cooperatives to make producing goats more profitable. Two benefits o↵ered by these cooperatives are access to government-licensed para-veterinarians called Community Agro-Vet Entrepreneurs (CAVEs) and opportunities to participate in collective livestock sales that leverage the bargaining power of the cooperative. However, challenges remain. CAVEs often feel isolated and find it difficult to develop their skills and access support for challenging cases. Cooperatives struggle to organize collective sales due to their large and disperse membership and poor communication infrastructure. To address these challenges, we use an RCT to evaluate a bundle of technologies to help strengthen livestock cooperatives consisting of a digital Mentoring and Continuing Education (dMCE) platform and a digital Collective Marketing (dCM) tool. This Pre-Analysis Plan summarizes the intervention we study in this RCT, explains our research questions and empirical strategy to answer these questions, and specifies the regressions we plan to estimate. We also outline the methods we will use to adjust our findings for multiple hypothesis testing and conduct correct inference in a factorial design RCT.

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  • Brooks, Matthew S. & Lybbert, Travis & Magnan, Nicholas & Mullally, Conner & Shrestha, Bhola, 2026. "Strengthening Women's Livestock Cooperatives in Nepal with an Innovative Technology Bundle," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri 404658, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea26:404658
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404658
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