Presentation from the Livestock Inter-Agency Donor Group (IADG) Meeting 2010. 4-5 May 2010 Italy, Rome IFAD Headquarters. The event involved approximately 45 representatives from the international partner agencies to discuss critical needs for livestock development and research issues for the coming decade. [ Originally posted on http://www.cop-ppld.net/cop_knowledge_base ]

1. Inter-Agency Donor Meeting
4 – 5 May 2010
IFAD – Rome
Pro-Poor Livestock Programs
Terry S Wollen, DVM
Livestock Advocacy
Heifer International

2. Heifer’s beginnings….
“Not a cup,
but a cow.”
— Dan West
Founder of Heifer
International

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

4. 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

5. “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.”
Strategic Objectives
Human and Social Assets Productive Assets and Technology
Strengthening the capacity Improving equitable access
of the rural poor to productive natural resources
and their organizations and technology
Enabling the rural poor to
overcome their poverty
Financial Assets and Markets
Increasing access to financial
services and markets
-- from IFAD: Livestock Services and the Poor – A global initiative 2003

6. 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.

7. EADD’s Vision
The lives of 179,000 families—or approximately one million
people—are transformed by doubling household dairy income
by 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

8. Approach
Research to Sustainably Expand dairy Refine and scale
inform analysis increase dairy markets & up to expand
and decision- productivity and increase market impact
making efficiency access
● Baseline studies ● Develop gender ● Organize ● Improve the
approach to small smallholder dairy business model
● Ongoing holder dairies farmers to based on experience
monitoring & effectively bulk & and use it to expand
evaluation ● Increase on-farm market dairy more businesses in
milk production thru products East Africa
● Value chain adoption of
models productivity ● Ensure steady, cost
● Involvement and enhancement effective supply of
understanding of technologies goods & services to
East African farmers & farmer
● Sustain production groups
policy makers and quality of milk
● Market models thru improved animal ● Expand dairy
healthcare & markets
nutrition

9. Transforming Chilling Plants to Business Hubs
Farmers
TESTING
HARDWARE SUPPLIERS
AI & EXTENSION FIELD DAYS
CHILLING HUB OTHER RELATED MEs
VILLAGE BANKS FEED SUPPLY TRANSPORTERS

10. How Farmers pay for Services
through the Business Hub
HARDWARE SUPPLIERS
CHILLING
AI & EXTENSION VILLAGE BANK
HUB
FEED SUPPLY
SERVICES &
INPUTS
FARMERS
TRANSPORTERS

11. Early successes
•Beneficiary and stakeholder buy-in secured
•Partners are lining up org
iry.
•Internal capacity established ada
•Early learning's adopted ww w.e
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

12. Questions? & Comments!

13. Thank you!