The livestock sector is a significant contributor to employment in Bangladesh, accounting for 14.5 percent of overall employment and over one-third of total employment in the agricultural sector4 . The concentration of women employment in the sector is high, accounting for 88.2% of the sector’s employment and for 41% of total female employment (compared to just 2.4% for men). However, jobs in the livestock sector are heavily concentrated in production activities, with only 2 percent being indirectly employed in livestock manufacturing and service activities and the ratio of indirect to direct jobs is 0.016, implying 1000 new jobs created in livestock production will create 16 indirect jobs in related manufacturing and services.The Livestock and Dairy Development Project (LDDP) is a $579 million World Bank-funded project launched by the Government of Bangladesh, aiming to transform the informal livestock sector into a formal commercial sector, promote climate-smart production systems, and enhance productivity and resilience of smallholder farmers. It also seeks to create job opportunities for vulnerable groups along the value chains and improve the quality of existing jobs. The project is expected to directly create new jobs, as well as contribute to indirect job creation through alleviating intermediate input constraints, reducing seasonality, and increasing incomes of households engaged in the livestock value-chain.This study's key objective is to estimate ex ante the LDDP's job creation potential. It used two approaches for the purpose. The first approach was a survey of 2045 samples that collected quantitative and qualitative information from three livestock value chains i.e., dairy, cattle, and poultry, covering five value chain segments (upstream and downstream). The second approach was a social accounting matrix (SAM) multiplier model, which estimated potential job creation at the national level by linking different sectors and actors in the economy.