Key messages
• Combines genetics with health and feeds to improve livestock
productivity
• Ensures all stakeholders, keepers and consumers benefit from better
livestock genetics
• Identifies and promotes the most appropriated livestock breeds for
values chains and systems
• Develops improved breeds, capitalizing on new genomics and
reproductive technologies (e.g. within breeds improvement,
crossbreeding)
• Creates effective delivery systems for improved livestock genetics
(public-private partnerships, communities breeding schemes)
• Improve policies and institutional arrangements to maximize the long-
term effectiveness of genetic interventions
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PartnersContacts
Olivier Hanotte
ILRI Ethiopia
o.hanotte@cgiar.org
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Theory of change
 Targeting, livestock system characterization
and intervention analysis, and intervention
impact assessment
 A repository of information on distribution,
genome diversity, adaptation and
performance of livestock breeds
 Biorepository and genebank on livestock,
their pathogens and the pathogen vectors
Cluster 1: Assessment of resources and
systems for development of strategies on
animal genetics resource use
 Genetic improvement strategies for
productive and resilient livestock
 Breeds with specific disease resistance
and/or environmental adaptation
 Digital system for data capture &
feedback
 Genetic analysis platform
 Reproductive technology platform
Cluster 2: Improved breeds of livestock
 Business models for multiplication and
delivery of improved genetics
 Continual genetic improvement of breeds
Cluster 3: Multiplication delivery systems
of improved genetics
 Guidelines on policy and/or institutional
arrangements
Cluster 4: Policy and Institutional Support
Increased livelihood
opportunities
Technologies that
reduce women’s labour
and energy expenditure
developed and
disseminated
Increased conservation
and use of genetic
resources
Business models for multiplication
and delivery of improved livestock
genetics, to resource poor women
and men livestock keepers,
implemented by national research
and development partners, and the
private sector
Data on livestock diversity and systems, including
from a gendered lens, used to develop or refine
genetic improvement and / or conservation strategies
by policy makers, national research and development
partners and the private sector
Guidelines on policy and institutional
arrangements for improvement and
conservation of AnGR adopted by
national and development research
partners , the private sector, and
policy-makers
Women and men resource
poor farmers sustainably
utilising improved livestock
genetics, that are both
productive and adapted
Genetic improvement strategies for
improved livestock genetics
implemented by national research
and development partners, and the
private sector
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3 Closed yield gaps
through improved
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husbandry practices
Enhanced genetic gain
Research outputs Research & (near) development outcomes Sub-IDOs
(Sphere of control) (Sphere of influence)
(Sphere of influence →→interest)
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7th Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Meeting
Achieving multiple benefits through livestock-based
solutions, Addis Ababa, 8-12 May 2017
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