Experience with value chain benchmarking tools

Experience with value chain benchmarking tools

Samwel Mbugua and Hikuepi Katjiuongua

ICARDA-ILRI Training on Tools for Benchmarking Sheep and Goat Value Chains in Ethiopia,

Addis Ababa, 6-9 November 2013

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

1. VC tools development team

2. Broad VC Research questions and components

3. Benchmarking tools, process and actors

4. Brief over view of BM tools and experiences – Uganda and Botswana

5. Way forward

COMPONENT LEADS INVOLVED IN THE VC TOOLS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

1. Value chain development2. Animal health3. Genetics4. Feeds5. Targeting6. Gender and learning

1. VC performanceHow can the performance of livestock and fish (L&F) value chains (VC) be improved and how well are the L&F VCs performing using different performance dimensions metrics?

2. VC Innovation & upgradingHow can L&F value chains be upgraded to improve the level and conditions of participation of value chain actors?

BROAD VC RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND COMPONENTS

3. Technology adoption in value chainsWhat types of technologies can improve the performance of L&F value chain VC actors and under what conditions?

4. VC governance and coordinationWhat kind of governance & coordination mechanisms can improve the functioning and performance of the VC and the livelihoods VC actors and under what conditions?

5. Risk exposure and management in VCsWhat can go wrong? How can risk exposure in the L&F VCs be reduced and risk management be improved? How are different types of risks distributed among VC participants and along the VC?

6. Policy and institutional environmentWhat type of interventions at the policy and institutional level increase the performance of and benefits from target value chains and under what conditions?

PS: The questions are to be disaggregated by gender in the tools to factor in specific gender issues

Conceptual link for LV CRP and A4HN causal pathway

THE CORE PROBLEM

THE CAUSES

Lost opportunities for smallholders in animal-source-food markets

Limited access to

inputs

Inappropriate scale &

technologies

Lack of market information

Dysfunctional pricing & markets

Inappropriate food-safety management &

regulations

Threatened market access

Limited value addition

Low productivity

Health risks in food

Lost income

Food insecurityHidden hunger

INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETINGPROCESSING CONSUMPTION

High wastage & spoilage

Unsafe food

Poverty Disease

THE IMPACTS

CRP A4NH

CRP L&F

Purpose of the tools: Situation analysis, Rapid value chain assessment, and in depth VC analysis/benchmarking.

1. Situational analysis - assess the conditions within which the target value chains in the selected countries operate.

2. Rapid value chain assessment – get overview of VC (mapping/ actors), identify broad opportunities and constraint, and defining broad intervention areas.

3. In-depth value chain analysis/benchmarking

Benchmarking: Baseline for impact assessment at all actor levels and coordination in the VC

This includes VC performance (both for pilot and large-scale development projects-> sample size may differ across different projects)

BENCHMARKING TOOLS, PROCESS AND ACTORS

1. Inputs and service 2. Producers3. Processors4. Traders

-The process should be coordinated by the VC coordinator, project PI and partners.- The process should be done before and after the intervention.-The audience for the data output should M&E team, targeting theme, VC team, VC stakeholders.

EXPERIENCE WITH BENCHMARKING TOOLS SO FAR…

1. UGANDA PIG VC – Have used the tools and are this week having the feedback training workshop with partners.

2. BOTSWANA LIVESTOCK VC - Have done Producer Benchmarking, sample size 600 took 2 months. Currently cleaning data...

MORE ON BOTSWANA BM EXPERIENCE

1. Duration of data collection – took 2 hrs (excl. farmer mobilization period).

2. No. of enumerators used – 15 initially then 10 during follow up to attain set sample size.

3. How long household questionnaire took to complete – 2 hours

4. No. of qnnr’s per day – target was 3-4 per day, some days had challenge of farmers being away from households in the cattle posts which are far.

5. Data cleaning experience – Some errors have noted in the collected data. Need to also develop a good database system. Some data upon merging had to be discarded as they were incomplete.

6. Total households surveyed – 600.

WAY FORWARD

With the aim of developing standardized VC assessment tools the following is needed;-Collect good quality data.

- Document of our experiences in terms of tools adoption and use.

- Share the lessons from various VC activities and country programs to assess with standardization while enhancing our process

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.

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