Value chain development in the Livestock and Fish Research Program

Value Chain Development in the Livestock and Fish Research

ProgramTom Randolph (ILRI)

CGIAR Livestock and Fish Value Chain Development Team Meeting

ILRI, Nairobi, 5-8 March 2012

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

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

Realtime Feedback

Expectations?

Section of whiteboard reserved for expectations

not being met, complaints, suggestions,

observations

More milk, meat, and fishby and for the poor

Overview

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.

Strategic CRP 3.7 Cross-cutting Platforms• Technology Generation• Market Innovation• Targeting & Impact

Consumers

R4D integrated to transform selected value chains In targeted commodities and countries.

Value chain development team + research partners

GLOBAL RESEARCH PUBLIC GOODS

INTERVENTIONS TO SCALE OUT REGIONALLY

Addressing the whole value chain

Major intervention with development partners

Approach: Solution-driven R4D to achieve impact

Development Partners$90m

Performance Target:double production in x poor households Scaling out

Knowledge Partners $10m

Time 10 years

CRP3.7 Strategic Research $10m

Working toward interventionsfor impact at scale

1 Technology development:

− Genetics− Feeds− Health

Consumers

Commodity X in Country Y

2 Value chain development

3 Targeting: Foresight, prioritization, gender, impact

Cross-cutting: M&E, communications, capacity building

Delivering CRP3.7 Livestock + Fish

Structure: Three integrated Components

3 Sub-Components per ComponentTechnology Development

• Animal health

• Livestock & fish

genetics

• Feeds

Value Chain Development

• Sectoral & policy analysis

• Value chain assessment

• Value chain innovation

Targeting, Gender, Impact

• Spatial, systems and household analysis and targeting

• Gender and equity

• M&E and impact assessment

9 Target Value Chains

PIGS

AQUACULTURE

SHEEP & GOATS

DAIRY

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A generic livestock value chainN Taylor

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A generic livestock value chainN Taylor

A value chain is the set of actors, transactions, information flows, and institutions that enable value to be delivered to the customer (Baker 2007)

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)


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)

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?

Isabelle to facilitate

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


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)

A Strategy for Value Chain Development

ILRI, Nairobi5-8 March 2012

More milk, meat and fish by and for the poorLivestock and Fish CGIAR Research Program

Development Partners$90m

Performance Target:double production in x poor households Scaling out

Knowledge Partners $10m

Time 10 years

CRP3.7 Strategic Research $10m


EngagementAssessment

Time 10 years


PilotingValidating

Learning at scaleTackling the harder constraints

Engagement•Scoping R&D partners•Stakeholder event•Catalyze alliance

Time 1st year

Engagement / Assessment

Assessment•Reviews•Tool development•Rapid VC assessment•Situational analysis•Identify best-bet intervention•In-depth VC assessment

3rd year2nd year

Assessment•Reviews•Tool development•Site selection•Rapid VC assessment•Situational analysis•Framework for assessing VC performance•Identify best-bet intervention•In-depth VC assessment


Assessment•Reviews•Tool development•Site selection•Rapid VC assessment•Situational analysis•Framework for assessing VC performance•Identify best-bet intervention•In-depth VC assessmentTime 1st year


3rd year2nd year

Outcome 1: Preliminary sets of methods and toolkits for pro-poor VC development are being applied by CRP3.7 and partners in the target VCs




3rd year2nd year

Outcome 2: Stakeholders are sensitized and supportive of CRP3.7's role in working with R&D partners to improve target value chains




3rd year2nd year

Outcome 3 Initial opportunities for VC development identified and informing design of best-bet intervention




3rd year2nd year

Outcome 4 Better understanding of target VCs is further guiding development of interventions

Piloting•Baseline studies•Action-research trials

Time 1st year

Piloting / Validating

Validating•Field trials

3rd year2nd year

Piloting•Baseline studies•Action-research trials

Time 1st year

Piloting / Validating

Validating•Field trials

3rd year2nd year

Outcome 5 Development agents and investors are aware of and applying recommended pro-poor upgrading strategy in each target value chain, supported by an evidence base

EngagementAssessment

Time 10 years


PilotingValidating

Learning at scaleTackling the harder constraints

Begins happening in Years 3-5

Key Milestones2012 2013

• R&D stakeholders identified and consulted (event held)

• Initial toolkit (including reviews)

• Framework for VC performance• Site selection criteria decided

and sites selected• Rapid VCAs funded and

conducted• Review of successes/failures• Best-bet intervention v1

described

• Partners trained in Rapid VCA• Results of Rapid VCAs shared

with stakeholders• In-depth VCAs funded and

conducted• Testing of best-bet intervention

v1 funded and initiated

What’s missing?


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?

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?

Value Chain Assessment



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

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?

How do we work as a team?



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)

Completing the planning process



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

Questions?

Where do you fit? Card exercise

1. Name2. 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

Principles that should characterize our approach

Value chain development in the Livestock and Fish Research Program

Technology

value chain r4d

selected value chains

n taylor value

rapid value chainassessment

poor livestock

vc performance

fish systems

strategic research