Inter-Agency Donor Meeting4 – 5 May 2010IFAD – Rome

Pro-Poor Livestock Programs

Terry S Wollen, DVMLivestock AdvocacyHeifer International

Heifer’s beginnings….

“Not a cup, but a cow.”

— Dan WestFounder of Heifer International

Our Mission

Working with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth.

PRINCIPLES OF GOOD DEVELOPMENT

•Participation of the people•Local ownership of the decision-making process •The commitment of local resources•The role of outside practitioners as facilitators of change•A belief in people's capacity to effect change if given opportunities by their structural environment •The value of indigenous knowledge•The conception of development as a "process" and not a series of "projects“--The Cornerstones Model - Values-Based Planning and Management, p 6, J. Aaker, J.

Shumaker, Heifer Project International, 1996

Enabling the rural poor to overcome their poverty

Financial Assets and MarketsIncreasing access to financial

services and markets

Productive Assets and TechnologyImproving equitable access

to productive natural resourcesand technology

Human and Social AssetsStrengthening the capacity

of the rural poorand their organizations

Strategic Objectives

“It is a formidable challenge for most providers to deliver livestock services that meet the requirements of poor livestock keepers. Providers are accustomed to focusing on raising production, rather than on enhancing equity.”

-- from IFAD: Livestock Services and the Poor – A global initiative 2003

East Africa Dairy Development

• 115 million people in East Africa half subsisting on less than $1 per day in an agricultural economy of small-scale, resource-poor farm communities

• Women are responsible for up to 80% of food produced in Africa, they frequently have the fewest resources and are particularly affected by economic poverty.

• Families are caught in a downward poverty spiral, characterized by declining food intake, poor education and health services, degraded and disappearing grasslands for their herds, and little-to-no access to commercial market systems.

EADD’s VisionThe lives of 179,000 families—or approximately one million people—are transformed by doubling household dairy incomeby year 10 through integrated interventions in dairy production, market-access and knowledge application.

� 110,000 beneficiary farmers in Kenya

� 45,000 farmers in Uganda

� 24,000 farmers in Rwanda

Approach

● Baseline studies

● Ongoing monitoring & evaluation

● Value chain models

● Involvement and understanding of East African policy makers

● Market models

Research to inform analysis and decision-

making

Sustainably increase dairy productivity and

efficiency

Refine and scale up to expand

impact

Expand dairy markets &

increase market access

● Develop gender approach to small holder dairies

● Increase on-farm milk production thru adoption of productivity enhancement technologies

● Sustain production and quality of milk thru improved animal healthcare & nutrition

● Improve the business model based on experience and use it to expand more businesses in East Africa

● Organize smallholder dairy farmers to effectively bulk & market dairy products

● Ensure steady, cost effective supply of goods & services to farmers & farmer groups

● Expand dairy markets

Transforming Chilling Plants to Business Hubs

TRANSPORTERSTRANSPORTERS

TESTINGTESTING

FIELD DAYSFIELD DAYS

FEED SUPPLYFEED SUPPLY

AI & EXTENSIONAI & EXTENSION

VILLAGE BANKSVILLAGE BANKS

OTHER RELATED OTHER RELATED MEsMEs

HARDWARE SUPPLIERSHARDWARE SUPPLIERS

CHILLING HUBCHILLING HUB

Farmers

TRANSPORTERSTRANSPORTERS

FEED SUPPLYFEED SUPPLY

AI & EXTENSIONAI & EXTENSION

HARDWARE SUPPLIERSHARDWARE SUPPLIERS

CHILLING CHILLING HUBHUB

FARMERSSERVICES & SERVICES & INPUTSINPUTS

How Farmers pay for Services through the Business Hub

VILLAGE BANKVILLAGE BANK

Early successes•Beneficiary and stakeholder buy-in secured•Partners are lining up•Internal capacity established•Early learning's adopted

Early challenges•Animal Health Services through community animal health providers and in cooperation with private veterinary service providers•Feed and feeding options: grasses, legumes, crop residue and forage conservation•Cultural norms related to women, land ownership, youth involvement •The cooperative development model bias•AI technology, availability of liquid nitrogen•Government services provided free

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airy.org

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