Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania: Best-bet
Technologies and Innovations
Public-Private-Partnership in Animal Health Delivery
Henry Kiara, Ambrose Munene, I. Omondi, D.D. Wako, S.O.Takal, B. Bett, G. Wamwere-Njoroge
Key messages and solutions
• Livestock diseases are responsible for more than 25%
productivity losses although animal health products are
available to significantly reduce the loss
• Delivery of animal health services is dominated by the
public sector and are mostly inadequate
• A partnership between the public and private sector can
greatly improve delivery of animal health services
• Better delivery would lead to healthier more productive
animals and healthier people
Opportunities and benefits
• Public sector does not have the resources to provide all the
animal health services needed to improve livestock productivity.
It requires partnership with the private sector to supplement
public sector efforts. Private sector is willing to invest in animal
services delivery if appropriate policies are in place.
• Types of agribusiness best suited to deliver the innovation
• Private input providers
• Producer organizations
• Professional bodies
Pictures
Suitability
• Government deliberate effort to let private sector provide some
services and create the necessary policy and legal framework
• It is not limited to any agroecology but more likely succeed
where private sector is already established
Evidence
• Private sector is already involved in the delivery of AH
services in many countries
• OIE has encourage countries to develop policies that
include private sector in their public veterinary services
• Private sector is generally more efficient than the public
sector in many cases.
• Since it is business led mostly it would work
• Requires appropriate policies by the public sector to
enable investment by the private sector
This document has a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. October 2019
March 2017
Problem statement
• Enough animal health products are available to deal with
the major livestock diseases
• Due to poor AH delivery, livestock diseases continue to
be a major constraint to improving productivity
• Poor AH services is caused by low investments in AH
delivery by private sector partly due to the dominance of
the public sector
Maziwa Zaidi thanks all donors and organizations which globally support the work of ILRI and its partners through their contributions to the CGIAR system
Resource requirements (low to high, between 1 and 5)
Land
Water
Labour
Cash
Access to inputs
Knowledge and skills
Impact areas (low to high, between 1 and 5)
Food security
Nutrition and food safety
Youth empowerment
Women empowerment
Livelihoods
Market access and linkages
Outcome difficulty (low to high, between 1 and 5)
Business profitability
Environmental sustainability
Youth empowerment
Women empowerment
X
X
X
X
X