Presentation by Isabelle Baltenweck and Gerald Mutinda at a 'livestock live' talk held at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) Nairobi campus on 26 June 2013.

1. Dairy hubs in East Africa:
Lessons from the East Africa Dairy Development project
Presented by Isabelle Baltenweck and
Gerald Mutinda at a „livestock live‟ talk
ILRI Nairobi, 26 June 2013

2. East Africa Dairy Development Project
Factsheet
 Scope
 Duration: Jan 2008-Jun 2013
 Budget: USD50 M (BMGF)
 Investment fund: USD5.0m
 BMGF: USD2.5m
 Heifer: USD2.5m
 Partners
 BMGF
 HI - lead
 TNS - business
 ILRI – knowledge-based
learning
 ABS – genetics & breeding
 ICRAF – feeds & feeding
 Structure (120+ staff)
 Country offices
 Kenya
 Rwanda
 Uganda
 Regional office

3. EADD Vision and Objectives
Vision
Transform the lives of 179,000
smallholder farming families
(approximately 1 million people) by
doubling their household dairy
income in 10 years.
Objectives
• Harness information for decisions
and innovation
• Expand access to markets
• Increase productivity and
efficiencies of scale

4. TRANSPORTERS
TESTING
FARMERS
FIELD DAYS
FEED
SUPPLY
AI &
EXTENSION
VILLAGE BANKS
OTHER RELATED
MEs
HARDWARE SUPPLIERS
CHILLING or BULKING
FACILITIES

5. Advantages of the hub approach
■ Improved access to inputs and services
– Physical availability
– Quality
– Price (bulk purchase)
– Possibility to purchase on credit using the
“check-off” system
■ Improved access to milk market
– Chilling plant
– Or bulking raw milk centre (traditional hub)

6. EADD achievements
124%
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
2008 2012 2008 2012 2008 2012
Kenya Uganda Rwanda
Dairy income (USD/HH/day)
164%
64%
• About 200,000 farmers registered, although only 1/3
active suppliers at any given time
• Increase in household dairy income in all 3 countries
• 82 hubs supported, 17 hubs being „graduated‟
20%
35%
36%
8%
Exit types (%)
Graduation (High
performance)
Phase Over to EADD-2
Phase over to other
players
Phase out (peri urban TM
and poor performing)

9. From hub model to hub approaches
1. Hubs centered around provision of inputs and services
2. Hubs centered around bulking without cooler
3. Hubs centered around chilling plants

10. Organization of extension services
and sources of funding, by stage
Stages Person in charge of extension
services
Sources of funding
Stages 1
and 2
„Liaison‟ officer, possibly a Board
member or the PO key staff
coordinates extension services
(such appointees are explicitly
tasked with that responsibility and
their capacity is enhanced
accordingly via EADD Support)
Training and other extension
services are fully paid by EADD,
but organized/ managed by the
PO. EADD and other players
provide much of the funding but
this time build the POs capacity
and thus EADD plays a
facilitative role.
Stage 3 A PO staff coordinates extension
services as part of other duties, e.g.
CP manager in charge of extension
if s/he has competence
PO starts cost sharing on
reducing scale for EADD
Stages 4
and 5
Full time qualified staff Extension costs partly or fully
paid for by PO

11. Gender in EADD
EADD I Proposed for EADD II
Gender analysis By product of
the baseline
“Know Her” - Gender analysis at various levels of the value
chains
Attention to
gender (and
youth)
limited “Design for Her” - Gender mainstreamed in all Major
Objectives + 1 Objective on Gender and Youth Empowerment
Partner in
charge
HI All partners - gender is mainstreamed in all Major Objectives
Activities Some Embedded in other activities based on analysis of gender
based constraints
Monitoring &
Evaluation
Limited “Be accountable to Her” - Sex and age group disaggregated
monitoring template
Profile case studies to gain deeper understanding of outputs
especially at HH level
Evaluation- undertake thematic studies on gender and youth

12. Stage Gate
• The stage gate tool scores sites on a 0 to 100 scale,
indicating progress towards sustainability.
• The business component includes 6 dimensions (business
start-up, governance, value proposition to farmers, value
proposition to market, profitability and capital structure)
while the production component includes 5 dimensions
(nutrition, genetics, animal health and management, milk
quality and extension services structures).
• Site scores determine stages, with sites below 20% in
Stage 1, those between 21% and 40% in Stage 2, 41% to
60% in Stage 3, 61% to 80% in Stage 4 and above 80% in
Stage 5.

13. Stage Gate
• On average for the 3
countries, the annual rate of
change is 8.3 points per
year, which translates into a
site reaching stage 4 (or 60
points) in 7.3 years.
• Sites in Kenya and Rwanda
progress significantly faster
than Uganda sites.
• Kenya sites move on
average at the rate of 9.8
points per year, Rwanda 9.4
and Uganda 7.5.
• Pre-existing sites progress
significantly faster than all
the other hub types