Maziwa Zaidi Overview & Plans for
2015
(Tanzania smallholder dairy value chain R4D program)
Tanzania Dairy VC Planning Meeting,
ILRI campus Nairobi
27 March 2015
Amos Omore

THE
EFFECTS
THE CAUSES Poor access to
veterinary
services
Poor quality
feeds / feeding
practices
Poor disease
control
programs
Low capacity to
extend technical
knowledge and
information
WHOLE VALUE CHAIN WITH DOWNSTREAM EMPHASIS
INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETING CONSUMPTION
1. Low productivity
2. Poor access to production and market inputs and services
Poor nutrition Food insecurity / hidden hungerPovertyTHE IMPACT
Inconsistent
access to water/
seasonality
1. Cattle keepers’ have low capacity to innovate, manage risk, reduce vulnerability,
increase incomes, and ensure food security.
2. The sector is starved of appropriate credit facilities that can finance acquisition of basic
inputs and services.
3. Low investment in productivity improving innovations has perpetuated a low-input
low-output vicious cycle.
INTERVENTION
AREAS
small-scale nature of
the production systems
Low
genetic
potential
Problem statement
Lack of appropriate
organizational approaches
few and poorly linked
BDS providers
Low access inputs and
services
ASSOCIATED
WITH
More milk, income,
assets and better
health & Nutrition

Vision: an inclusive and sustainable development of the
dairy value chain.
Long term goals

How to get there…
(impact pathways – now aligned to new L&F flagships)

What has happened since
June 2014 and what’s
planned for 2015?

Assessments, Monitoring, Evaluations, Major meetings
1. Drafted SIP to 2023
2. Additional baselines/benchmark surveys linked to new projects on
environmental, genetics and feeds
3. Best bet interventions ongoing following site-specific plans (FS being
incorporated)
4. 1st monitoring survey in Sept 2014; second one just completed
5. Gender CapDev assessment
6. Well Told Story /media strategy
7. CCEE
8. DDF on Feeds
9. Maziwa Zaidi 6-monthly review meeting

Coming soon
1. L&F/A4HN Nutrition surveys - after rains
2. Theory of Change starting
3. DDF - end May
4. Maziwa Zaidi 6-monthly review meeting
5. External mid-term review of Irish Aid – MoreMilkIT project in
June/July 2015
6. IEA – end May
7. Others?

Resource Mobilization last 3 years: on-going and closed
Feeds
1. Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in Tanzania and India through feed innovation and value chain
development approaches (MilkIT; IFAD) - closed
2. Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock
systems in Tanzania (USAID)
3. Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Small-Scale Irrigation in Tanz, Eth and Gh (USAID) - new
Genetics
4. Dairy Genetics East Africa Phase II (DGEA2, BMGF)
5. Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania
(TDG, AgriTT-DFID)
Animal health
6. What’s killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases in smallholder dairying in Tanzania (GIZ) - closed
Food safety/nutrition
7. Safe food, fair food (SFFF2, BMZ) - closed
8. Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock
and fish market chains (ACIAR) - closed
9. Leveraging Dairy Value Chain Development in Tanzania for Improved Nutrition and Health of
Women and Children (USAID Linkage) - new
10. Study on “Looking beyond income: impact of hubs on human nutrition in Tanz” (SPIA) - new
Markets/hubs
11. More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value
chains in Tanzania (MoreMilkIT; Irish Aid)
12. East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) Phase II (BMGF)
Environment:
13. CLEANED (BMGF)
Gender (and above)
13. Dairy goat and root crop production (CGP, IDRC) - closed

Pipeline
Status Short title Topic Partners
(lead 1st)
Duration Budget Donor Comments
Pipeline
submitted/r
ecently
received
CGP Gender SUA, UA,
Heifer, ILRI
CAD5,000,000
(ILRI: 593,000)
IDRC, CIDA Failed
FTF Innov Lab Feeds Texas, ILRI 2015-20 ILRI: 1,248,000 USAID Funds cover Tanz,
Eth & Ghana
Women &
Gender
Nutrition ILRI, SUA 2014-15 US$ 50,000 USAID
Linkage
Hubs impact on
nutrition
Nutrition ILRI, SUA 2014-15 US$ 100,000 SPIA
Ecf itm IA An hlth /M&E ILRI 2016-16 US$100,000 SPIA Failed
Sustainable
intensification
Environment CIAT 2015-17 € 80,000 BMZ
LIQUID Production /
quality
WUR 2015- None to ILRI WOTRO To support
students
ECF ITM Delivery Health ILRI 2015-16 $ 100,000 USAID
BMGF Gender ILRI
IMMANA Nutrition
metrics
RUFORUM students

Staff challenge
• Achieving an optimal VC team with the right mix of
skills
• Post doc positions planned for this year scraped –
– promised to fund one under with WUR/Wotro proposal
Ideal’ team for VC transformation from across all flagships : 6.7 scientists full-time
equivalent required located within (5) and elsewhere (1.7)
ValueChainEconomist 95% Breeder/geneticst 45%
FeedsSpecialist 90% CapDev/OrgDevspecialist 27%
AN/PHspecialist 75% Innovationssystemsspecialist 40%
Animhusbandryspecialist 75% Consumption/nutritionspecialist 10%
Genderspecialist 70% Policyanalyst 15%
ValueChainCoordinator 90% Post-harvestsystemsanalyst 5%
National(Field)Coordinator 100% Environmentspecialist 5%
Communicationspecialist 100% IA/MEL 25%
Full-timeequivalent/yr(assumesameforeachyear)
StafflocatedinVC %time Stafflocatedelsewhere %time
5.0 1.7Full-timescientistequivalents

L&F budget risk for interventions testing
Name of
Partner
Total CRA
Amount
(USD)
CRP
Portion
(USD)
MoreMilkiT
Portion (USD)
Spent to date (USD)
MoreMilkiT
Balance
IRE003 IRE004 IRE006 Total
Faida
MaLi
191,904 35,000 156,904 74,069 5,968 80,037 76,867
Heifer 430,064 - 430,064 141,531 27,471 169,002 261,062
SUA 151,388 22,700 128,688 20,406 44,118 - 64,524 64,164
TDB 50,719 - 50,719 40,487 674 41,161 9,558
Totals 824,075 57,700 766,375 20,406 300,205 34,114 354,725 411,650

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