Development partnerships in the
Livestock and Fish Research
Program: Progress update
Livestock and Fish Review and Planning Meeting
23-25 March 2015
Virtual
Stuart Worsley

What we seek to achieve
• Transformation in the way that systems work to deliver
income and nutrition
• L&F acts as a knowledge partner within large scale
development interventions,
– to better enable uptake of technology
– To identify and prioritize demand for technology
• Connecting between technology generation and its
widespread use

What we do
• Build alliances with DPs around issues that important to
value chain actors
• Offer services to DPS
– Approaches and methods to align agendas and efforts
– Support to get funding for innovative programs
– Act as knowledge partners

Tactical Development Partnerships
• Seeking Shared Value in Countries
– Alignment of substantial work
– Joint livestock value chain transformation initiatives
– Facilitating action experiments by others
– Bring research findings to development issues
– Conduct research into adaptation and adoption of
technologies within different contexts

Strategic Development Partnerships
• Alliances across several countries where trust has been
established, key innovations adapted and adopted and national
scale sustainably achieved.
– Regional and Global programs
• Regional and global research and review
– Processes and methodologies that have worked well
– Common system patterns that give rise to value chain issues
– Define research and program areas that require additional
discovery attention
– Form new work areas that require concerted attention
– Establish global alliances designed to invoke strategic action
to spread action beyond CRP L&F focus countries

Results so far
• Collaborative platforms formed in five countries (Tz, Ug,
Et, Bg, Vt)
• Tactical partnerships in Tz, Ug
– Vedo
• Strategic partnership – SNV (with CARE and GiZ in
process)
• Resources for program action in Tz and Ug (Irish Aid)

Egypt
• Sector wide multi stakeholder aquaculture platform formed and met 6
times in 2014
– Skretting and MSD Animal Health – understanding fish mortality
– Aquatic Union – forming high level strategy on sector
development
• Ongoing engagement with CARE to support
– Aquaculture union – strengthening ability to represent farmer
interests
– SDC supported Youth Employment program in Aswan – started
• Upgrading existing fish value chains
• Developing new aquaculture in Aswan
• Women retailers in Fayoum

Uganda
• Local partnerships in the dissemination of improved
forage legumes (UPO, VEDCO)
• Engagement with local abattoir (Wimbizi) in upgrading
investment
• Establish Pig MSP with SNV
• Small holder pig promotion (BRAC and VEDCO)

Tanzania
• Maziwa Zaidi - Dairy Development Platform – Alliances
on Breeding, Feed Seasonaility, Multistakeholder action,
Dairy Hunds
• EADD and MoreMilkIT – with Irish Aid; hub
development with Heifer International, Faida Market
Linkages, Tz Dairy Board, SNV
• Working to form collaborations with Tanga Fresh and
ASAS milk processors

Bangladesh
• Merck/MSD engaged on Tilapia diseases research
• Partner landscaping report completed
• Working through AIN partners – hatcheries, fisheries
– now producing improved seed stock
• Partnered with Hellen Keller on household
consumption studies
• Training provided for NGO partner staff on improved
technologies

India
• Attempts to build partnerships with development agencies in
Bihar on dairy
• Collaboration with Sanjay Gandhi Institute for Dairy Technology
and Kaushalya Foundation NGO to do value chain assessment
• Building relationships with BAIF Development Research
Foundation (BAIF), Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Kaushalya
Foundation (KF), Preservation and Proliferation of Rural Resources
and Nature (PRAN), Center for Promoting Sustainable Livelihoods
(CPSL), BASIX, Science for Society
• First gathering of stakeholders in July

Burkina Faso
• October workshop: Gathering of development actors and
articulation of action sets by various players.
• Partnership strategy plan defined in the Small Ruminant
Value Chain
• Negotiations starting with SNV on responding to joint action
on satellite mapping – bringing data to the last mile
• Engagement with development organizations in selecting
sites.
• Collaborative work with Heifer International to conduct a
value chain study

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Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems
in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
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