Poster prepared for the ILRI Annual Program Meeting (APM) 2010, held at ILRI campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 14-17, 2010.

1. ELKS Enhancing livelihoods through
livestock knowledge systems
(Tata-ILRI partnership in India)
Tata Trusts fund partners to
implement development projects
ELKS aims to strengthen the
Tata partners and stakeholders with
technical, social and institutional
research knowledge to reduce poverty
among livestock communities
Participatory epidemiology in Channeling relevant
pig value chain Partners information to
(Nagaland) farmers
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Partners Stakeholders
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Outputs Outcome
Research outputs relevant Tata partners used the ELKS
to partners outputs to implement projects
Enhanced partner capacities to enhance the performance
Pro-poor livestock policy of dairy, piggery and goat
components value chains
Discussion with
Training on monitoring Animal Husbandry Secretary
and evaluation (Arunachal) on pro-poor
(Nagaland) livestock policy
The good news is … And the not so good news is …
Mismatch of expectations: development organisations
This project is a good example of partnership for linking
expect ready-made solutions that can produce quick and
research and development
tangible impacts on the ground