smart_ethiopia_april2017

=Small Ruminant value chain Transformation in Ethiopia (SmaRT Ethiopia)Workshop on developing intervention packages for small ruminant value chain target sites= =Addis Ababa, 19-20 April 2017=

Background
The workshop brought together nearly forty participants from a range of institutions (including SARI, ARARI, Haromaya University, FAO, ATA and so on) for two consecutive days. The workshop is designed to assess and evaluate 28 Small ruminant value chain transformation interventions that have been tested by SmaRT project. By the end of the workshop, participants selected prioritized and planned site-specific interventions.

SmaRT Ethiopia project is established as part of the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) Livestock & Fish in 2012. Currently, it is under CRP Livestock Agri-Food Systems (2017-2019) in the Flagship Livestock Livelihoods and Agri-food Systems (LLAFS). In Ethiopia, sheep and goat meat were selected as a target, and ICARDA is leading sheep and goat meat value chain transformation at target sites in Ethiopia jointly implemented with ILRI, NARES and Swedish Agricultural University (SLU). IFAD co-founded the SR VCT in Ethiopia with a country grant for ICARDA, ILRI, and NARS (April 2015 – April 2018)

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=Objectives= 1. Share and review the results from testing best-bet interventions developed by the project and project partners during the last five years 2. Design packages of technology and institutional interventions for each target site.

Agenda
Day 1: 19 April 2017 – to share and validate the best-bet interventions

Overview: SmaRT Ethiopia project overview and activities Introduction: Workshop aims and objectives || Barbara Rischkowsky || Poster review || Facilitator || 1730 || Quick feedback Close ||  ||
 * Time || Activity || Notes ||
 * 0800 || Registration ||  ||
 * 0830 || Welcomes
 * 0915 || Participant introductions and mapping interests || Facilitator ||
 * 0945 || Introducing the review and assessment exercise
 * 1000 || Break ||  ||
 * 1030 || Best-bet interventions for SR value chain transformation: Review, validation, assessment ‘matchmaking’ exercise || All ||
 * 1300 || Lunch ||  ||
 * 1400 || Best-bet interventions for SR value chain transformation: Stocktaking exercise ||  ||
 * 1530 || Break ||  ||
 * 1600 || Best-bet interventions for SR value chain transformation: Synthesis ||  ||
 * 1700
 * 1740 || Reception ||  ||

Day 2: 20 April 2017 – to design intervention packages


 * Time || Activity || Notes ||
 * 0830 || Recap day 1 and plans day 2 || Facilitator ||
 * 0900 || Revisiting results of the day 1 review and assessment exercise ||  ||
 * 0930 || From interventions to packages: Introducing the site targeting exercise || Facilitator ||
 * 1000 || Break ||  ||
 * 1030 || Best-bet intervention packages for SR value chain transformation sites: targeting exercise || All ||
 * 1300 || Lunch ||  ||
 * 1400 || Best-bet intervention packages for SR value chain transformation sites: stocktaking exercise ||  ||
 * 1530 || Break ||  ||
 * 1600 || Best-bet intervention packages for SR value chain transformation: Directions, priorities, actions ||  ||
 * 1730 || Close ||  ||

**//Presentation//**
[|Update on the sheep and goat meat value chain transformation in Ethiopia project]

**[[file:registration smart workshop.docx|List of participants]]**
= = =Meeting Notes=


 * Opening by Barbara Rischkowsky (BR)**


 * SmaRT Ethiopia program started in 2012. The program was first under the CG CRP Livestock and fish but now it is under the CRP livestock and food Systems (2017-2019) in the Flagship Livestock Livelihoods and Agri-food Systems (LLAFS)
 * SmaRT Ethiopia project is a joint program between the cgiar and the national system. Till date, there is a number of contribution and collaboration with a range of different partners. The project is also co-funded by IFAD, and ICARD is leading the transformation of small ruminant value chain development.
 * We wanted to have a continues intervention since VC development requires a continuous effort and time as it cannot be done in three years or so
 * We want to transform the value chain into more business oriented kind of approach
 * It is your intervention and should be incorporated into your plans
 * It really fits into the national agenda since the government of Ethiopia has given priority to livestock
 * Today we are going to evaluate and assess the twenty-eight best-bet technologies and interventions
 * Specific projects were designed to integrate women despite the fact the sector is dominated by male.
 * Now we are at the stage of developing business models and testing of integrated packages of proven technologies and interventions.
 * The nature of the project requires collaboration as it is a multi- disciplinary
 * Hopes to bring together different insights from this workshop
 * The interventions should be continues as value chain development requires time and continuous effort as it cannot be done within three years or so
 * These interventions are your interventions and need to be incorporated into your plans
 * It will not be difficult to incorporate into the plan since livestock is a priority area for the government of Ethiopia as well (National agenda).


 * Introducing the review and assessment exercise poster review – By Peter Ballantine (PB)**
 * Six 'marketplaces' were organized – Genetics and reproduction, animal health, animal feeding, markets, gender, processing and food safety. In the 'marketplace' the scientists (intervention champions) sale site- specific interventions by explaining the interventions and their usefulness
 * There were ten teams of ‘buyers’ – Abergele- wag, abergelle-Tanqua, Atsbi, Bonga, Doyogena, horro, menz, shinille, yabello and a national team comprising CBE, ATA,
 * ‘Buyers’ will be evaluating all the twenty-eight interventions whether they are ready for scaling out or not but when they buy they buy interventions that will be fitting the area they are coming from. In the process, they ask specific question to the sellers
 * Each team has a shopping basket to keep the interventions that will be fitting to the area they come from
 * When they pick the intervention they also pick a card to put their insights why they have picked the specific intervention
 * The cards will help to work on plans for the intervention at least for the sites
 * Names are given to each team
 * There are site posters to give the general picture what the specific sites need
 * Participants go around and visit the posters that state challenges in the value chain development of small ruminants, research and development best-bet

The teams scored each and every intervention based on readiness to scale out, suitability to the site and whether to include in plans or not.
 * Invervention overall scoring exercise by PB**

Table 1. Result from intervention summary scoring sheet – filled by groups Scores are the total ranking of each criteria by all scoring groups, divided by the number of scoring groups


 * Name of intervention || Readiness to scale

Rank 1 to 3 3=ready now 2=ready after adaptation 1=needs to be tested still || Suitability to site:

Rank 1 to 3 3=perfectly suited 2=can be adapted 1=not fitting || Include in team plan:

Yes / Maybe / Unlikely ||
 * 1 - Better hygienic practices improves Ethiopian small ruminant meat quality || 1.62 || 1.75 || 4 1 3 ||
 * 2 - Improving the reproductive performance of small ruminants || 2.55 || 2.66 || 9 ||
 * 3 - Understand, prevent and control Anthrax || 1.88 || 2.11 || 3 4 2 ||
 * 4 - Community-based breeding programs enhance livelihoods and deliver genetic gains || 2.5 || 3 || 8 1 ||
 * 5 - Coenurosis control - break the cycle || 2.5 || 2 || 5 2 2 ||
 * 6 - Dairy cultures: an ingredient to improve the quality of Ethiopian traditional dairy products || 2 || 2.1 || 5 2 2 ||
 * 7 - Gender matters in small ruminant value chain transformation in Ethiopia || 2.6 || 2.88 || 6 2 ||
 * 8 - Tapping the knowledge of women in small ruminant disease surveillance and management || 2.75 || 2.88 || 7 1 0 ||
 * 9 - Assessing and strengthening the gender capacities of value chain actors and partners in Ethiopia || 2.37 || 2.3 || 7 2 0 ||
 * 10 – Community-based gastro-intestinal tract parasite control in small ruminants || 2.5 || 2.55 || 9 0 0 ||
 * 11 - Integrated herd health approach to reduce impact of respiratory diseases || 2.25 || 2.88 || 9 0 0 ||
 * 12 - Reducing lamb and kid mortality || 2.5 || 2.5 || 8 0 1 ||
 * 13 - Milk fat separation: a technology to accelerate butter production and reduce labour || 2.31 || 2.14 || 5 1 1 ||
 * 14 - Pasteurization: a technique to improve Ethiopian traditional dairy products || 2.5 || 2.7 || 6 1 1 ||
 * 15 - Simple smokers: a technology to improve Ethiopian traditional dairy products || 2.33 || 2.57 || 5 2 0 ||
 * 16 - Thermometers: to improve Ethiopian traditional dairy products || 2 || 2.33 || 3 2 2 ||
 * 17 - Responsible use of antimicrobials in small ruminants || 2.1 || 2.33 || 6 2 1 ||
 * 18 - Training women in small ruminant husbandry and health || 2.87 || 2.88 || 9 0 0 ||
 * 19 - Select effective fasciolicides to control sheep liverfluke || 2.57 || 2.62 || 6 1 1 ||
 * 20 - Urea treatment to improve the nutritive value of crop residues || 2.1 || 2.25 || 5 1 2 ||
 * 21 - Pulse crops with food-feed traits to support livestock productivity || 2.25 || 2.33 || 6 2 1 ||
 * 22 - Enhanced sheep fattening with modified feeding and management practices || 2.62 || 2.55 || 7 1 1 ||
 * 23 - Desho grass to feed livestock and mid to high altitudes || 2.17 || 2 || 1 3 4 ||
 * 24 - Building improved market facilities || 2.25 || 2.44 || 8 1 0 ||
 * 25 - Smart marketing along small ruminant value chains || 2.37 || 2.33 || 6 2 ||
 * 26 - Field solution for artificial insemination of sheep || 2.62 || 2.77 || 7 2 0 ||
 * 27 - Ultrasound to diagnose pregnancy and reproductive disorders in small ruminants || 2.87 || 2.77 || 8 1 0 ||
 * 28 - Better hygienic milking practices improve goat milk quality || 2.57 || 2.11 || 3 2 2 ||


 * Views on scores and general comments on the readiness and suitability of interventions for site**
 * **PB:** For some reason, scores are getting higher as we go lower on the list. Many of the interventions are scored ready for scaling out but the scientists have the doubt if they are ready to be scaled out.
 * **BW:** The interventions are presented as convincing and this has affected the judgments of participants to certain extent
 * **Team Abergele Wag:** Some of the areas such as Community-based animal breeding programs have a number of aspects or subsystems to be considered such feeding, health and so on. Therefore, we have to take in most of the interventions listed as packages. Currently, the interventions are cut into pieces. Instead, they should have been as a package. There for some needs to be bundled to be together
 * **AH**: we got high scores in some of them cause many of the participants in this workshop has already being involved in the trial on the field and they are very much familiar with the specific interventions, and also some of the similar interventions should be packaged together
 * **BR:** The packages should come together when we take it to the community levels. All technologies should reach as a package even if tested one by one


 * Questions from audiences**
 * Q:** do we leave some of the technology out of the package of we still try to keep them all?
 * A:** If some of the technologies do not make it into the package we will leave them but some are still under evaluation. And also at some stage we will have to prioritize among the technologies as it is not possible to take in all the technologies.
 * Q:** what is the size of the package?
 * A:** Some of the technology need only more time than budget. If the research centres allocates budget the package will be bigger but if not we have to keep it smaller


 * Comment on the process by participants:**
 * Good approach as it is new to me I am very much interested
 * Got a lot of information as a seller from the buyers’ side. It is very interactive and it is not very common in the other workshops
 * Planning time is ideal since Tigray region is preparing a development plan to transform the Tekeze River. So we can adapt some of the interventions with the budget from the government as long as we prove that the interventions are useful.
 * The diversity of the participants is very good (from farmer to scientists and researcher) and the items presented for us are also very diverse. All the areas that are raised have great importance as it includes gender, health, feeds etc.

__**Day 2**__
 * The second day was all about packaging of site-specific interventions, and also planning for one year (April 17- 18)
 * Groups presented the interventions they have selected and responded to questions and also took comments from participants. They have also selected the discipline/area they need assistance on and a scientist is assigned to support them in the planning process.


 * Group outcomes:**


 * Team Shinille**
 * Objective - Empower women through market-oriented dairy (Goat) milk production
 * The have selected and packaged 15 of the interventions under health, feeds, gender, market, and dairy technologies.
 * They said that most of the technologies are accepted to fit shinnile, however, emphasized on market-oriented approaches as marketing is the way of life in the area
 * Many gender interventions are also selected since women should be incorporated in order to supply larger quantities of products to the market
 * We think that it can achievable in the 12 months’ time
 * 1,000,000 budget


 * Comment BR:** we will have a look and at them come with comments. It is not only the plan but needs more follow up during implementation arrangements. Shinille needs more follow-up than other sites


 * Team Abergelle Tarqua**
 * Objective - **I**mproving Income Generation Capacity and Product Diversification of Small Farm Households
 * We have not selected the market-related intervention that is presented, however, it would have been great to have market interventions that can help us to establish market linkages
 * 780,000 budgets


 * Team Horro**
 * Have five interventions packages (capacity building, breeding, feeding, disease prevention /control and gender)
 * The objectives include enhancing the capacity of sheep producers and different actors in the value chain in terms of husbandry, health, and cross-cutting issues (Gender); Improving productivity of Horro sheep through selective breeding, efficient use of rams and use of reproduction technologies; Improving productivity of Horro sheep through selective breeding, efficient use of rams and use of reproductive technologies; to improve production performance of sheep through control and prevention of disease risks; and provide access to improved market facilities and enhance farmers’ selling power
 * The packages cannot be linked/integrated


 * Team** **Doyogena**
 * Objective – improving community-based breeding program through better management (health, feeding, and breeding)
 * Have five packages (gender, health, feed, marketing, and breeding)
 * Time allocation for the different activities, fair women participation, and market demand fluctuation is considered as sustainability limitations
 * 700,000 budgets


 * Team Atsbi**
 * Objective- improving the productivity and quality of sheep meat for


 * Team Menz**
 * One package with 7 interventions
 * Objective is to enhance the productivity of menz through integrated community-based breeding via feeding, health and market interventions


 * General observations**
 * Very good plans with good details that will help us and it is very commendable (barbara)
 * Every team has incorporated gender which is of great importance (wolle)
 * AI implementation needs to be carefully planned and should be based on expected results
 * It is important to focus on ostra.. and natural mating since in AI we need efficient AI technicians. We have to be very careful till our technicians develop their skills (Abergele tanq)
 * CBbreding are very successful is some places and not in other. My suggestion is connecting CBB to marketing will be helpful to encourage smallholder farmers. If there is a profit farmer will be encouraged and no emphasis will be needed for training ….(Bonga) there a need to work with pastoralists and establish CBB
 * We are not promoting AI when we need for out scaling genetics but we are not doing it for the sake of AI


 * National Team**
 * looked at the interventions from the national and economic perspective
 * We have to take few reassures for an optimum result which is the profit
 * All the interventions are of great importance and needs to be customized to the local situation
 * As more productive the community and the smallholder HH it is a good economy at the national level
 * Our interventions should consider time for fast returns


 * Closing By BR**
 * The factsheets will be put together
 * Full documentations will be shared
 * Getting the plans completely ready
 * We will continue testing the ones still ongoing but still can be part of the package
 * Yabello site will be included soon
 * With the AI, we always look for the more skilled and committed technicians
 * Thank you so much for all the good work