Livestock and Irrigation Value chains for Ethiopian Smallholders (LIVES) Project

Where did we start and where are we now?(April 2012 – March 2013)

LIVES PSC Meeting, ILRIApril 30, 2013

Project proposal development phase

IPMS lessons learned summarized:• Use participatory commodity value chain development had a

positive effect on livelihoods of value chain actors, mainly famers.• Production interventions can be improved further by focusing on

fewer commodities• Input/service supply and marketing interventions can be improved

further by increasing scale of business

Use cluster approach for fewer commodities livestock and high value irrigated agriculture• Importance of livestock and irrigated agriculture in GTP and AGP• Attention paid by other R4D actors • Comparative advantage of ILRI and IWMI – Unique model

Project proposal development phase

• Introductory meetings in each of the Regions to discuss interest in and objectives of follow up (IPMS) project

• All Regions interested based on experiences with IPMS

• Discussion/review of potential commodities and Zones

• Use was made of GIS maps and CSA data

• Each Region selected commodities and zones, which were included in the project proposal submitted to CIDA

WHY LIVES? – Goal and Ultimate outcome

Goal• To contribute to enhanced income and gender equitable wealth

creation for smallholders and other value chains actors through increased and sustained market-off-take of high value livestock and irrigated crop commodities.

Ultimate Outcome • Increased economic well-being for male and female smallholder

producers in 30 districts in 10 target Zones in Amhara, Oromia, Tigray, and SNNPR through the development of livestock and irrigated value chains

Intermediate Outcomes• Increased use of improved knowledge and capacity by

male and female livestock and irrigated agriculture value chains actors and service providers to develop gender sensitive and environmentally friendly sustainable market-oriented livestock and irrigated value chains.

• Increased adoption of gender sensitive and environmentally sustainable market-oriented value chain interventions by male and female livestock and irrigated agriculture value chain actors and service providers.

LIVES Objectives• Capacity development of value chain actors, service providers and

educational institutions (capacity development)

• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new knowledge management interventions in support of value chain development (knowledge management)

• Promotion of knowledge generated for scaling out beyond the project areas (promotion for scaling out)

• Introduction/adaptation of tested and new value chain interventions for targeted value chains/areas (value chain development)

• Generation and documentation of new knowledge on value chain interventions through diagnosis, action and impact research studies (action research)

Project objectives to Intermediate Outcomes

Project Development and Approval

• September 2010 – first LIVES draft proposal

• March 2012 - CA signed between CIDA and ILRI

• (Proposal development to approval - 18 months)

• March 2012 - March 2013 - IPMS and LIVES running parallel

Planning and Implementation

Planning phase: April – July 2012

• Develop overall project implementation plan (PIP) with stakeholders

• Initiate baseline• Develop first year program of work and budget with

stakeholders

Implementation phase: • August 2012 – March 2017

PIP phase - Regions• Familiarization core LIVES group with objectives and procedures for

PIP phase planning work

• Regional consultative meetings with public sector representatives (agriculture, water, research)– To introduce the project objectives and strategy– To verify initially selected commodities and zones– To appoint public sector staff members for regional and zonal assessments

• Use was made of GIS maps and CSA data

• Regional level data collection on value chain actors and service providers for selected commodities

PIP phase zones• Zonal meetings (in each of the selected zones) by regional

teams with public sector staff

– To introduce the project– To verify selected commodities – To identify clusters of 3 districts to produce the selected

commodities – ranking process– To initiate data collection

• Zonal level data collection on value chain actors and service providers and preparation of GIS maps on biophysical characteristics of selected Districts

PIP Phase - Districts

• District consultative meetings and visits with regional teams

– To introduce the project– To review selected commodities– To identify potential PAs for each of the selected commodities

• District/PA level data collection on number of households involved in producing selected commodities, value chain actors

PIP Phase • National workshop to review data collected with

regional and national partners

• Preparation of project implementation for submission to CIDA

• Baseline data collection

• Preparation draft zonal reports with commodity assessments and potential interventions

Commodity and zone selection process

Consultative meetings in each of the 4 Regions in 2010

• Given the project focus, which commodities should LIVES concentrate on?• Given the priority commodities which zones would the Regions like LIVES to

focus on?

Selection considerations in choosing commodities and zones

• Present/future importance (market) of the commodity• Available capacity/projects to develop the commodity• Potential for clustering Districts for the same commodity (e.g milk shed,

irrigation schemes, watersheds)

LIVES Project Zones

Priority commodity value chains and their zonal location in the four LIVES Regions

Zone Dairy BeefSmall

ruminant Poultry ApicultureIrrigated

agriculture

Eastern Tigray x x x x

Central Tigray x x x x

West Gojam x x x x

North Gondar x x x x

South Wello x x x x

East Shoa x x x x

West Shoa x x x x

Jimma x x x x

Gamo Gofa x x x x

Sidama x x x x

Milestones• March 2012: Project approved• April 2012 – July 2012 – 4 months - Regional consultations

and preparation of the project implementation plan (PIP)

• Implementation Phase – from August 2012, but– July 30, 2012 - MoA/EIAR letter of agreement to ILRI– 4 months– July 2012: National planning workshop – August- Sept - Zonal diagnosis work– August – September 2012 Consultations with MoA, EIAR and CIDA about PIP and

governance – Oct 30th - H.E. Ato Wondirad’s letter to Regions – 7 months– Nov 5, 2012 – Letter to Regions on LIVES – Nov 8, 2012 to April 9, 2013 (6 months) – Nomination of Steering Committee – Nov 28, 2012 - PIP and workplan endorsement by PCT – July – September 2012 Baseline data collection– September 2012 – February 2013 Baseline data analysis and reporting

Organized Project Inception, Launching and Familiarization Workshops

• Inception workshop - Jan 23-26, 2013

• Launching workshop - January 22, 2013

• Zonal Workshops - February-March, 2013

• Research Planning Workshop – March 26-28, 2013

• Familiarization workshop – April 22-24, 2013

Capacity development• Capacity gaps and interventions identified as part of the

PIP and baseline/diagnostic process

• Selected regional staff trained in baseline data collection and rapid value chain assessment

• Capacity assessments on value chains development in Universities ATVET and programs (Bezabeh)

• Curriculum – Agribusiness – Axum and Jima Universities

• Synchronization – training for federal staff, Regional and Zonal staff

Knowledge management

• Knowledge gaps and interventions identified as part of the PIP and baseline/diagnostic process

• Distribution of relevant DVDs and documentation on specially made display stands to the 10 zones and 31 districts

• Establishment wiki, website, brochure, GIS data base

Promotion• Activities to promote LIVES approaches and interventions

• Interactions with Ethiopian value chain programs, projects to discuss design, synergies: GRADD, EDGET/EADD2, Water and Land Resource Centre

• Member of gender working group organized by the Agri hub project.

• Building the institutional capacity of educational institutions and research institutes in value chain development

• Others

Promotion• TARI Technology Exhibition and Symposium

• Training on Management Skills and leadership

• Partnerships – LMP, LMDP, EAAPP, EDDP, EDGET, PRIME, ENGINE, Agri-hub, Gender,

• French Dairy Project

• Land and Water Resource Centre – AAU/Swiss

• TARI – research advisory service

• LIVES Brochure

Continued Value chain development

• Continued synchronization the new Zones – North Gondar, West Shoa, South Wollo, West Gojam (Adet) in partnership with Land and Water Resources Centre

• Community-based Sheep breeding with ICARDA – Atsbi and Jimma

• Tested small scale egg incubator with EAIR Debre Zeit

• Constructed model animal handling faculties for regions

• Facilitated linkage with BecA goat project and joint planning

Value chain interventions

• Value chain gaps and potential interventions identified and prioritized

• Mentoring coaching of regional teams in mass insemination in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia

• Ordering of equipment and supplies

• Transfer mobile cattle crushes to Regions

Documentation• Research planning workshop on March 26-28, 2013.

• Participation by EIAR, RARIs, IWMI and ILRI

• Research priorities and organizational issues prioritized

• Baseline data collection on main project indicators completed

• Baseline data report completed

Finalized last IPMS Publications/documentation

• Dairy synthesis working paper

• Guideline for market oriented extension

• Summary report on IPMS impact

• Other scientific (journal, case studies and conference) publications

• IPMS DVD

• Estrus Synchronization DVD

2012

Sept July Aug Oct Nov Dec

Request For Approval

(RFA) purchase vehicles

PIP submitted to CIDA

Zonal diagnosis and baseline data collection

RFA vehicles approved by

CIDA

Program of work year 1 prepared

and submitted to CIDA

Responses on content issues PIP and submitted to

CIDA

Comment received from

CIDA : content, LM

and PMF

Prepared revised version

of LM in consultation

with CIDA

Prepared revised

version of PMF

Prepared revised year one plan of

work , budget, Annexes

PC Team indorsed PIP and Budget on behalf of PSC

Baseline data analysis & write-up (Sept – Feb)

Wondirad’s letter to Regions – O

ct 30th

Regional SC nominations started

MoA/EIAR Agreem

ent to ILRI July 30

Revised LM and PMF and first year plan of

work and Annexes submitted to CIDA

Staff recruitment• Gender Expert• Knowledge Management and Communications Expert• Regional Experts and coordinators• Livestock Experts• Irrigation Experts• Zonal coordinators• M @ E Expert• Agri-business Expert• Research Officer• Research Assistants• Administrative Assistants• Drivers

Partnerships• EDGET/EADD – Dairy value chains• LMDP – Dairy, meat value chains• French group on ASF and human nutrition• CRP3.7 Livestock and Fish (ILRI/ICARDA) – small ruminant value chains• BeCA – Goat project• EMDTI – capacity building• ILRI Biosciences – breeding and vaccines• ILRI Integrated Sciences – Gender, Forages• FARM Radio – capacity building, KM, promotion• IFDC – Value chains• ATA – Research and Extension• University of Maryland – College of Agriculture & Natural Resources -broad• Texas A&M University - Modeling• Land & Water Resources Centre, AAU – Watershed &commodity value chains • PRIME, ENGINE, Agri-hub• CIP – potatoes• EIAR/RARIs – Livestock and crop value chains

Procurement• Vehicles • Computers• Biogas electric generators• Bio gas storage bag• Animal handling facilities (crush)• Microchip RFID tags and FID readers• Cattle trocar and cannula • Drenching gun• Kindle touch e-reader, UK power adaptor for e-reader, Cover for e-reader• Hormones • Tent frame, Folding tables, Tents, Folding chairs, Sleeping bags• Portable Fridge• Egg incubators

2013 timeline…

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