EXTRAPOLATE: Supporting priority setting in value chains

Livestock and Fish Value Chain Coordinators’ meetingNairobi, 3 September 2013

Timothy Robinson

Humidtropics SRT 1.3 Entry points

Objective: To identify best-fit interventions at a range of scales - focusing on livelihoods, gender, markets, production, farming system, natural resource management and policy.

Slow track: systems analysis of detailed household data; systems optimisationFast track: PRA approaches; ex-ante analysis•EXTRAPOLATE: Ex-ante tool for ranking (policy) alternatives•RAAIS: Rapid Appraisal of Agricultural Innovation Systems

Entry points

• Designed for policy interventions (PPLPI) but equally applicable to technical and systems interventions

• Simple PC-based programme• Promotes a participatory approach• Easy to use, well documented

• User Guide• Reference Manual

• Not data-intensive• Simple graphic output• Can evaluate different combinations of policies/interventions• Can be used at a range of levels

EXTRAPOLATE

EXTRAPOLATE

EXTRAPOLATE: Current situation

EXTRAPOLATE: Policy changes

EXTRAPOLATE

The issue, in context

• 1993 Dairy Master Plan• Liberalize milk marketing

• Creation of a DDA

• Privatize the Dairy Corporation

• Need for comprehensive dairy policy to guide sector

• Request from MAAIF & PMA Secretariat for help develop a dairy policy

The challenge to PPLPI

• To ensure that smallholders’ constraints are addressed• policies based on equity, rather

than just on profitability

• To ensure that marginalized groups are represented• addressing the needs of the

informal sector

The process

• Broad stakeholder network (Govt; NGOs, producers and traders associations; private sector; NARS ......

• Three stakeholder workshops (EXTRAPOLATE)

• Dairy policy task force (MAAIF; PMA Secretariat; DDA; UBOS; NAGRC)

• TCP Proposal to develop a policy • Supporting studies:

• Analysis of livestock sector policy• Political economy of the livestock sector• poverty mapping (UBOS)• GIS layers (collaboration with ILRI)

Dairy development policy: Uganda

• Promote genetic improvement• Strengthen delivery of veterinary services• Provide appropriate extension services• Improved market infrastructure and information• Ensure quality control along the chain• Increase local consumption to build a strong domestic market• Promote efficiency in the input supply system• Increased access to credit facilities

Proposed components of policy:

EXTRAPOLATE – analysis tools

Small-medium producers

Pastoralists and agro-pastoralistsSmall processors & traders

Poor consumers

Wealthy producers/processors/consumers

Promote genetic improvement

Small-medium producers

Pastoralists and agro-pastoralists

Enforce quality control

Small-medium producers

Pastoralists and agro-pastoralists

Optimal combination of policies

Key elements of a pro-poor policy

• Promote genetic improvement• Strengthen delivery of veterinary services• Provide appropriate extension services• Improved market infrastructure and information• Ensure quality control along the chain• Increase local consumption to build a strong domestic market• Promote efficiency in the input supply system• Increased access to credit facilities

Key elements of a pro-poor policy

• This does NOT mean that genetic improvement and standards/regulation should be discouraged or dropped from the policy document

• Rather that when these broad policy outcomes are disaggregated into their component parts (laws, strategies, institutions etc.) care needs to be taken to ensure that the poorer producers are not disadvantaged, and that their needs are also addressed