Improving the Performance of Pro-Poor Value Chains of Sheep and Goats for Enhanced Livelihood, Food and Nutrition Security in

Ethiopia

Introduction to the new IFAD project

Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA)

Ethiopia small ruminants value chain strategy and implementation planning workshop, Addis Ababa, 8-9 June 2015

Program overview

Duration: 13 April 2015 – 12 April 2018

Location: L&F VC sites in Ethiopia (16 target communities)

Total grant budget: 1,199,911 USD

Recipient: ICARDA

Implementing partners: ILRI and Ethiopian NARS

IFAD Grant manger: Dagmawi Habte-Selassie

IFAD partner projects: PCDP III and RUFIP II

Selected sites Region District Research Center

Goat Value Chains

Abergelle Amhara/Tigray

Abergelle (Waq)Tanqua Abergelle

SekotaTARI

Negelle Borena Oromia Yabello (Borana) BoreGoat and Sheep Value ChainShinelle Somali Shinelle Haromaya

University

Sheep Value Chains

Menz Amhara Molale and Mehal Meda

Debre Berhan

Horro Oromia Horro/Shambu BakoEast Tigray Tigray Atsbi MekelleDoyogena SNNP Doyogena Worabe

Sheep and goat value chain sites in Ethiopia

Sheep and goat value chain sites in Ethiopia

• to improve livelihoods and assets, particularly of women, through increased incomes, reduced risk and improved market access in selected sheep and goat meat value chains

Program goal

• to improve the performance of sheep and goat meat value chains in Ethiopia througha 25% increase in herd productivity (meat offtake), 30% increase in producers' incomes and a 50% increase in meat quantity produced by 16 target communities.

This will be achieved by identifying and addressing key constraints and opportunities, improving institutional and governance arrangements and capacities, and supporting the establishment of enabling pro-poor policy and institutional environments.

Main objective of the program

a) Creating a consensus for pro-poor transformation of the target value chains among research and development stakeholders and partner programmes in Ethiopia;

b) Testing and implementing interventions with the potential to increase productivity and to enhance participation by the poor and women along the value chain;

c) Designing site specific intervention packages based on the evaluation of individual interventions and identified impact pathways;

d) Designing a framework for up-scaling of interventions packages with development partners including the IFAD investment programmes; and

e) Documenting and communicating lessons learnt in Ethiopia.

Specific program objectives

• Sheep and goat value chain performance, governance and institutional frameworks in Ethiopia understood and policy-makers made aware of constraints for sectoral growth and of gaps in institutional support

• First set of interventions adopted by target producers, both women and men, and ready for up-scaling through a network of development partners developed by the project.

• Dissemination of evidence and lessons learned and feasibility study on the possibility of up-scaling the interventions.

Key outcomes of the program

a) Analysis of sheep and goat value chain performance, governance and institutional frameworks;

b) Design, implementation and evaluation of technology and institutional interventions and integrated interventions packages to improve value chain performance;

c) Facilitation of an enabling environment for value chain transformation and for scaling up interventions; and

d) Design and implementation of data knowledge management systems for documenting and sharing evidence, outputs and lessons as a basis for scaling up.

Program components

a) Analysis of sheep and goat value chain performance, governance and institutional frameworks;

– Quantitative value chain analysis (baseline for VC performance and sheep and goat production at the VC sites);

– Design and implement a disease prevalence survey to assess the risk and economic importance of PPR, sheep and goat pox and other endemic diseases affecting sheep and goats;

– Analyze institutional, policy and regulatory framework of the SR sector to develop institutional innovations and policy recommendations.

Major activities by components

b) Design, implementation and evaluation of technology and institutional interventions and integrated interventions packages to improve value chain performance;

– Develop, test and evaluate prioritized best-bet technology and institutional interventions that address production constraints, and provide mechanisms for reducing transaction costs of sheep and goat marketing as well as institutional support;

– Develop business models that target specific marketing channels for each site involving producers, traders and input suppliers

– Design packages of tested and evaluated interventions that address site-specific challenges confirmed by quantitative VCA;

– Develop an evaluation framework and specific indicators for monitoring the performance of the target value chains considering technical performance, economic viability and potential welfare impacts, including food security, for women and other smallholder producers and value chain actors resulting from the set of piloted packages.

Major activities by components (cont.)

c) Facilitation of an enabling environment for value chain transformation and for upscaling interventions

– Engage stakeholders and R&D actors in a VCT alliance through national stakeholder workshop;

– Develop a partnership strategy to identify critical partners in developing and implementing interventions and a enabling institutional and policy environment, with a view to longer term adoption and scaling out of promising results;

– Design a targeted capacity development program for value chain actors and research partners based on need assessment.

– Conduct a feasibility study for outscaling tested approaches and interventions within Ethiopia and to other SSA countries.

Major activities by components (cont.)

d) Design and implementation of data knowledge management systems for documenting and sharing evidence, outputs and lessons as a basis for scaling up.

– Develop a strategy for communication and knowledge sharing, including communication materials that effectively package outputs and lessons for key target audiences;

– Establish data and knowledge management system for ensuring continued access to data and lessons from the project.

Major activities by components (cont.)

Schedule of key activitiesKey activities Year 1

(03/2015-02/2016) Year 2

(03/2016-02/2017) Year 3

(03/2017-02/2018)

Implement site-specific combinations of production and marketing interventions based on rapid VCA

M1

Monitoring and Evaluation/Annual review and planning workshops conducted through L&F

M2 M2 M2

Prepare report on in-depth VCA and revise intervention plans if indicated by results

M3

Document evidence and lessons for individual interventions and site-specific packages, and prepare scaling up strategy

M4 M6 M7

Engage stakeholders in reviewing prioritized interventions and in designing intervention packages at a regional stakeholder meeting

M5

Participatory training and capacity building

Conduct a feasibility study for outscaling M8

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