HEARD―Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural Development in
Amhara National Regional State
Wubet Sinshaw (DVM, MSC)
Amhara Livestock Resources
Development and Promotion
Agency
HEARD Inception Workshop, ILRI, Addis
Ababa, 29 March 2019

Content
 Project profile
 Background
 Objectives
 Expected Results 1
 Maine Activasteis under result 1
 Target groups (Primary and indirect)
 Project Actions - Particular Added-Value elements
 Organo-gram of the project emplementing institute
 Project Stakeholders, Federal, Region, Zone, Woreda

Project Profile
Project Title: HEARD (Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural
Development), Amhara project
Implementer: Amhara Livestock Resource Development
Promotion Agency
Project Location: Amhara Regional State, Bahir Dar,
Project Duration: 4 Years
Budget: Euro 2,000,000

Background Information
• Livestock remains the main livelihood economy in both
highland and lowland areas of the country contributing to
nutrition and food security of the 85% of the rural
population.
 The government of Ethiopia is thus committed to support
the livestock sector through investment of its own funds
.

Back ground------
 The Regional Government has also developed its own
strategies to improve livestock production and productivity.
 From 2010 on, the regional Government has restructured
the livestock as an Agency (Amhara livestock Resource
Development promotion Agency).
 In order to alleviate Animal health service delivery gaps,
The Agency has developed main strategies.
• 1. Strategic disease prevention:
Risk and calendar based vaccination
Risk based mass deworming and spraying/dipping .

Back ground------
• 2. Community based veterinary clinic construction in
each kebele/Peasant association to make basic vet.
service accessible to the society
• 3. Establishment of veterinary drug revolving fund at
the Region and at Wreda level.
• 4. Developed and implemented partial cost recovery
system which recharges the Revolving fund.

Background-----
 Therefore, the project is designed to assist the
implementation of these Regional strategies based on
the experiences and lessons gained from the
implementation of the completed EU funded 10th EDF
LVC-PPD project, and the existing gaps in the
provision of veterinary services at both the regional,
the zonal and woreda levels of the Amahara region
including private veterinary practitioners.

Objective of the project
 The Overall Objective of HEARD is to "Increase
sustainable livestock productivity and improve the
marketing of livestock products".
 The Specific Objective is "Quality and reliability of
integrated public and private veterinary service delivery
improved, taking into account the increasing impacts of
climate change".

Objectives------
The Regional HEARD projects implement: Result 1 of the
HEARD program.
• The quality of public and private veterinary services
strengthened and delivery optimised (through the
creation of an enabled and rationalised environment).

Expected Results 1
1.1 Enhance veterinary clinics and laboratories human
and material capacity
1.2 Reduce impact of animal diseases through improved
disease surveillance, disease control and risk-based
vaccination programmes
1.3 Pilot innovative (gender sensitive) animal health
approaches to increase production, productivity and value
addition in the livestock market chain

Main Activasties under result 1
• 1.1.Raise the quality of veterinary service performance
• 1.2. Enhance laboratory human and material diagnostic
capacity
• 1.3.Reduce impact of animal diseases through improved
disease surveillance, disease control and risk based
vaccination
• 1.4.Pilot innovative and gender sensitive animal health
• 1. 5.Create enabling environment for the development and
rationalization of animal health service
• 1.6.Improve the quality of sheep and goat skin production by
enhancing animal health service

Detailed Activities under each main activities
 1. Raise the quality of veterinary service performance
 purchase and Supply of Vet clinics with required
 equipment
 Furniture
 Maintenance of Vet clinics and health post
 Prepare and distribute Vet clinics SOPS and manuals
 Help to Conduct PVS self-assessments at regional level

Activities----
 2. Enhance laboratory human and material diagnostic
capacity
 Supply Vet equipments and consumables for regional
laboratories and wereda clinics
 Procure and distribute lab equipments and consumables

Activities
 Provide training for
 regional laboratory personnel on disease diagnosis
 districts animal health staffs on basic laboratory
techniques
 technicians on maintenance of laboratory
equipments
 Maintenance of regional vet. Laboratory
 Implement and improve QMS at RVLs

Activities----
• 3.Reduce impact of animal diseases through improved
disease surveillance, disease control and risk- based
vaccination
• 3.1 Improve livestock disease surveillance and outbreak
investigation
 Implementation and expansion of National Animal
Disease Surveillance System
 Strengthen DOVAR
 Provision of IT equipments

Activities----
 Training
 On animal disease surveillance and reporting system for
districts animal health staffs
 for end users involved in ADNIS
 Expand ADNIS
 Air time/internet package provision for end users

Activities-----
 Conduct active disease surveillance on Priority disease
(LSD, FMD, CBPP and Camel Pox)
 Conduct livestock disease outbreak investigation
 Organize regional coordination meeting on disease
surveillance and disease control
 PDS on selelcted diseases LSD, FMD, CBPP and
Camel Pox diseases
– Provide training on PDS

Activities
3.2 Improve livestock disease prevention and control
 Training on disease prevention and control
 Conduct risk based vaccination against PPR, SGP, CCPP
(With EU-SHARE program)
 Purchase of vaccination Equipment
Supply Cold chain facilities
 Purchase
 Generator for vaccine cold storage unit/Depot
 Refrigerators and deep freezer (Solar/ kerosene)
 Cold box (Large and small ice boxes)
 vehicles and motorcycles

Activities
4. Pilot innovative and gender sensitive animal
health approaches
 Asses and identify gender sensitive animal health
approaches
 Identify pilot areas and beneficiaries using
participatory approach Train Women
Implement

Activities
5.Create an enabling environment for the development and
rationalization of animal health service
 Awareness creation for communities and Animal
health staff on animal health legislations
 Encourage and Support private veterinary practitioners
 Regular monitoring and support

Activities----
6. Improve the quality of sheep and goat skin
production by enhancing animal health
Control of sheep and goat ectoparasites
 Pre assessment on the burden of ectoparasite impact
on shoats
 Procurement of ectoparasite control input
 Training of animal health staffs and stakeholders on
ectoparasite control and hide and skin management
 Conduct ectoparasite control campaigns
 Impact (Post) assessement on ectoparasite control
 Consultative workshops of stakeholders on quality and
market of sheep and goat skin

Target groups, Primary and Indirect
beneficiaries
• Target Groups Identified are:
 The regional Livestock Resource Development and
Promotion Agency (ALRDPA)
 2 Regional veterinary Laboratories
 20 Wereda veterinary Clinics (within 20 project target
Woredas) and 40 veterinary health posts
 200 Private veterinary practitioner from which 50 are
un employed graduates
 300 Selected women

Target groups, Primary and Indirect--------
• Primary Beneficiaries:
• Livestock owners,
• women and youths
• Indirect beneficiaries:
• Livestock product consumers
• Traders and
• Society of the region at large

Particular Added-Value elements------
 The project is expected to create an enabling
and more remunerated environment for all
livestock sector stakeholders'
 Then their contribution to the domestic and export
value chains improves.
 There are various activities that add value for the
sector,

Particular Added-Value elements
 Improving performance of veterinary service by adopting
the OIE PVS evaluation and gap assessment.
 Raising the performance of veterinary service has very
significant value in
 Improving livestock production and productivity.
 Helps to achieve the GTP-2 targets of the country is to
reach 3.5/5 in the performance of the veterinary service.
 Will be achieved by adopting the recommendations of the
previous OIE PVS evaluation and gap assessment
 Achieving this target will improve international acceptance.

Organo-gram of the project emplementing
institute
Regional
Technical
Committee
ALRDPA (Manager)
Regional Animal Health
Directorate
Regional
PCU
Federal PCU
MoFEC- MoALR
eputy manager for
Breeding, Forage
g,
Deputy manager for Vet. service
Regional Vet .
Lab Woreda LRDPA Office

Stake holders, Federal, Region, Zone,
Woreda
1. Federal; MoA, MoFEC, MoWCYA, NVI, NAHDIC,
ILRI, EVA, NGOs, DP, GP
2. Regional; Amhara RSA, BoA, BoFEC, BoWCYA,
NGOs, GPs, DPs, Cooperative Agency (CA),
Universities
3. Zone; Department of FEC, Dert. WCYA, Zone
administration, NGOs, GPs, DPs, CA
4. Woreda; Office of FEC, WCYA, Private vet.
Practitioners, WCYA, Traders /Business association,
NGOs, GPs, DPs, CA