Presented by Tom Randolph at the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish Value Chain Development Team Meeting, Nairobi, 5-8 March 2012

1. Value Chain Development in the
Livestock and Fish Research
Program
Tom Randolph (ILRI)
CGIAR Livestock and Fish Value Chain Development Team
Meeting
ILRI, Nairobi, 5-8 March 2012

2. Meeting Objectives
 Develop common understanding of objectives and
approach
 Review and refine the implementation plan, including
individual roles and responsibilities, and agree on the
timetable for 2012
 Set the stage for more detailed planning
 Develop an initial toolkit for rapid value chain
assessment

3. Update on the LaF CRP
 Preliminary planning meeting held Sept 2011
 Officially started January 1st 2012
 Planning still ongoing
 Strategy logframe
 Assigning resources
 How many activities can be supported?
 Unrestricted portion fully funded (CG Fund)
 Large gap in restricted funded portion  will
require major resource mobilization effort

4. Realtime Feedback
 Expectations?
 Section of whiteboard reserved for expectations
not being met, complaints, suggestions,
observations

5. More milk, meat, and fish
by and for the poor
Overview

6. Reminder: Goal
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
To sustainably increase the productivity of
small-scale livestock and fish systems to
increase the availability and affordability of
animal-source foods for poor consumers and,
in doing so, reduce poverty through greater
participation by the poor along the whole value
chains for animal-source foods.

7. Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact
Addressing the whole value chain
R4D integrated to transform selected value chains
In targeted commodities and countries.
Consumers
Major intervention with development partners
Value chain development team + research partners
Strategic CRP 3.7 Cross-cutting Platforms
• Technology Generation
• Market Innovation
• Targeting & Impact
INTERVENTIONS TO GLOBAL RESEARCH
SCALE OUT REGIONALLY PUBLIC GOODS

8. Working toward interventions
for impact at scale
Performance Target:
double production in
x poor households Scaling out
Development Partners
$90m
Knowledge Partners $10m
CRP3.7 Strategic Research $10m
Time 10 years

9. Delivering CRP3.7 Livestock + Fish
Structure: Three integrated Components
3 Targeting: Foresight, prioritization, gender, impact
2 Value chain development
1 Technology
development:
− Genetics Consumers
− Feeds
− Health Commodity X in Country Y
Cross-cutting: M&E, communications, capacity building

10. 3 Sub-Components per Component
Technology Development
Value Chain Development
• Animal health
• Sectoral & policy analysis
• Livestock & fish
• Value chain assessment
genetics
• Value chain innovation
• Feeds
Targeting, Gender, Impact
• Spatial, systems and household analysis and targeting
• Gender and equity
• M&E and impact assessment

11. 9 Target Value Chains
SHEEP & GOATS
AQUACULTURE
PIGS
DAIRY

12. A generic livestock value chain
N Taylor
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13. A value A generic livestock value transactions,
chain is the set of actors, chain
information flows, and institutions that enable
N Taylor
value to be delivered to the customer (Baker 2007)
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14. The VC Development Component
 What does the proposal describe?
 Role for partners?
 Links to other Components?
 Contradiction between focus and global public
goods?
 Links to other CRPs (Policies; Ag Nutr Health)

15. The VC Development Component
 Card exercise
1. From your perspective, what are key
principles that should characterize our
approach in implementing the value chain
development component?
 3 cards – 1 principle per card
2. What is your main expectation from this
workshop? (1 card)

16. Transforming a Value Chain
 Brainstorming exercise #1
What are the various dimensions of a value
chain that need to be addressed to transform
it to improve food security and reduce
poverty?
Which are the most important?

17. Transforming a Value Chain
 Brainstorming exercise #2
What mix of disciplines is required to address
the various dimensions of transforming a
value chain?
How do they rank in terms of essential
versus desirable?
Delia to facilitate

18. The VC Development Component
 Card exercise
1. From your perspective, what are key
principles that should characterize our
approach in implementing the value chain
development component?
 3 cards – 1 principle per card
2. What is your main expectation from this
workshop? (1 card)

19. A Strategy for
Value Chain Development
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program
ILRI, Nairobi
5-8 March 2012

20. Working toward interventions
for impact at scale
Performance Target:
double production in
x poor households Scaling out
Development Partners
$90m
Knowledge Partners $10m
CRP3.7 Strategic Research $10m
Time 10 years

21. Working toward interventions
for impact at scale
Engagement
Assessment
Piloting
Validating
Learning at scale
Tackling the harder constraints
Time 10 years

22. Engagement / Assessment
Engagement
•Scoping R&D partners
•Stakeholder event
•Catalyze alliance
Assessment
Assessment
•Reviews
•Tool development
Reviews
•Site selection
Tool development
•Rapid VC assessment
•Situational analysis
•Framework for assessing VC performance
Identify best-bet intervention
•Identify best-bet intervention
In-depth VC assessment
•In-depth VC assessment
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

23. Engagement / Assessment
Engagement Outcome 1: Preliminary sets
•Scoping R&D partners
of methods and toolkits for
•Stakeholder event
pro-poor VC development are
•Catalyze alliance
being applied by CRP3.7 and
Assessment partners in the target VCs
•Reviews
•Tool development
•Site selection
•Rapid VC assessment
•Situational analysis
•Framework for assessing VC performance
•Identify best-bet intervention
•In-depth VC assessment
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

24. Engagement / Assessment
Engagement Outcome 2: Stakeholders are
•Scoping R&D partners
sensitized and supportive of
•Stakeholder event
CRP3.7's role in working with
•Catalyze alliance
R&D partners to improve
Assessment target value chains
•Reviews
•Tool development
•Site selection
•Rapid VC assessment
•Situational analysis
•Framework for assessing VC performance
•Identify best-bet intervention
•In-depth VC assessment
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

25. Engagement / Assessment
Engagement Outcome 3 Initial
•Scoping R&D partners
opportunities for VC
•Stakeholder event
development identified and
•Catalyze alliance
informing design of best-bet
Assessment intervention
•Reviews
•Tool development
•Site selection
•Rapid VC assessment
•Situational analysis
•Framework for assessing VC performance
•Identify best-bet intervention
•In-depth VC assessment
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

26. Engagement / Assessment
Engagement Outcome 4 Better
•Scoping R&D partners
understanding of target
•Stakeholder event
VCs is further guiding
•Catalyze alliance
development of
Assessment interventions
•Reviews
•Tool development
•Site selection
•Rapid VC assessment
•Situational analysis
•Framework for assessing VC performance
•Identify best-bet intervention
•In-depth VC assessment
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

27. Piloting / Validating
Piloting
•Baseline studies
•Action-research trials
Validating
•Field trials
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

28. Piloting / Validating
Piloting
Outcome 5 Development •Baseline studies
agents and investors are •Action-research trials
aware of and applying
recommended pro-poor
upgrading strategy in
each target value chain,
Validating
•Field trials
supported by an evidence
base
Time 1st year 2nd year 3rd year

29. Working toward interventions
for impact at scale
Begins
happening in
Years 3-5
Engagement
Assessment
Piloting
Validating
Learning at scale
Tackling the harder constraints
Time 10 years

30. Key Milestones
2012 2013
• R&D stakeholders identified • Partners trained in Rapid VCA
and consulted (event held) • Results of Rapid VCAs shared
• Initial toolkit (including with stakeholders
reviews) • In-depth VCAs funded and
• Framework for VC performance conducted
• Site selection criteria decided • Testing of best-bet intervention
and sites selected v1 funded and initiated
• Rapid VCAs funded and
conducted
• Review of successes/failures What’s
• Best-bet intervention v1 missing?
described

31. The VC Development Component
 Visioning exercise
Danilo: How would you see the implementation
of this strategy for the smallholder pig value
chain in Uganda?
Rein, Malcolm: How about where activities are
already on-going and more advanced – can it all
be implemented? Parts?

32. Implications for M&E
 Beyond conventional research M&E, will it make
sense to establish a framework for monitoring
our progress in transforming each value chain?
 What would such a framework look like?

33. Value Chain Assessment
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program
ILRI, Nairobi
5-8 March 2012

34. Objective of VC Assessment
 Characterize how value chain works (technical,
economic, institutional) and the role of the
various actors
 Identify constraints, inefficiencies and inequities
 Identify potential opportunities and strategies for
pro-poor upgrading
 Requires many different perspectives  need to
appreciate the different approaches used

35. Value Chain Assessment
 Comments from the various subject areas
 What have we heard in terms of alignment of
issues, approaches?
 What degree of integration will be appropriate,
feasible?

36. How do we work as a team?
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program
ILRI, Nairobi
5-8 March 2012

37. Let’s agree some principles
 Harmonized approach desirable?
 Subject focus vs site focus
 Level of interaction needed at VC level
 Relationship with VC coordinators
 Working across Centers/units
 Relationship with Component Leaders
 How we plan our activities
 Identifying priorities for resource mobilization
(propose, identify pros/cons, vote)

38. Completing the planning process
More milk, meat and fish by and for the poor
Livestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program
ILRI, Nairobi
5-8 March 2012

39. Planning tasks
 Operation Plan
 Initial basic logframe
 Develop impact pathways
 Extend time frame
 More detail for 3-year period, value chains
 2012 work plan & budget
 Settle staff and restricted projects
 Can unrestricted support activities?
 Value chain planning meetings
 Flexibility and adaptability!
 Emphasis on resource mobilization for priority
activities

40. Where do you fit?
 Card exercise
1. Name
2. How much of your time is allocated to
CRP3.7? (<25%; 25-50%; 50-75%; >75%)
3. Expertise areas where you can contribute
(based on what is needed to transform a
value chain)
4. Note expertise area where you would want
to take a major role and help develop
5. Value chains/production systems where you
could contribute
6. Note value chains/production systems where
you would want to take a major role

41. Principles that should characterize our approach