Presented by Michel Dione at the More Pork by and for the Poor Project Inception and Planning Workshop, Mukono, Uganda, 27-28 May 2014

1. Initial steps for the Uganda Pig Multi-stakeholder
Platform
Michel Dione
More Pork by and for the Poor Project Inception and Planning
Workshop, Mukono, Uganda, 27-28 May 2014

2. Initiating Pig Multistakeholder Platform
and Processes (PMSP) in Uganda
Impact
pathway
workshop
Steering
committee
formation
• International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
• Agro Empowerment Centre (AEC)
• Uganda Pig Organization (UPO)
• Volunteers Efforts for Development Concerns
(VEDCO)
• Masaka District Veterinary Office (DVO-
Masaka)
• Mukono District Veterinary Office (DVO-
Mukono)
• Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA),
• Netherlands Development Organization (SNV)
4 meetings: mapping of the issues and
stakeholders; governance and scope
Problem 5: Actors not organized to exploit
potential
Underlying cause: no drivers or facilitators;
lack of platforms/multi stakeholder forums;
lack of organizational institutional setups;
lack of extension services

3. Initiating Pig Multistakeholder Platform and
Processes (PMSP) in Uganda
Objectives
• Faster linkage between different players and coordinate efforts
• Addressing critical issues along the pig value chain and come up with
solutions
• Enhance synergies among actors to facilitate learning and use of knowledge
• Knowledge/experience sharing between various organizations
• Enhance communication and innovation capacity
• Lobbying for legal entry into the national law
• Bring local solution at national level
Outputs
• Pressing constraints in the pig sector addressed
• Business linkages between actors in the pig sector in Uganda developed and
strengthened
Outcomes
• Pig sector significantly contributing to household incomes and the national
economy in Uganda

4. ISSUES PLAYERS
Production
• Feeding
• Breeding
• Technology (use school integrated systems)
• Management
• Pig biodiversity conservation disease vs
biodiversity)
• NGOS (VSO, VEDCO)
• Uganda Industrial Research Institute
• Agro Empowerment
• NAADS; NAGRIC&DB; KCCA; Sasakawa
• Pig Production and Marketing Uganda
• District farmer organizations (UPO, Chiboga, etc…)
• Religious bodies
Pig health
and Food
safety
• Pig health
• Public health
• MAAIF/NADDEC; Public health vets; Private vets
• Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS)
• National Drug Authority (NDT); Drug stockists
• Training institutions; Low enforcement organizations
• Uganda Consumer Protection Organization
Marketing
• Linkage among buyers
• Market information
• Pricing; Transportation
• Abattoir systems
• FarmGain; Agrinet; Wanbizzi cooperative; Fresh cuts,
Agroprofocos; SNV; InfoTrade; Uganda Industrial Reasrch
Institute (UIRI); Hakuna Matata; Nicodemas; Wandegeya;
Namugongo; Kiboka Keneth
Processing
and
branding
• Technology; Value chain addition; Equipment
cost
• Product diversity
• sharing working models; Cold chain
• Wambizzi abbatoir; Quality cuts
• Delamere Farms (sauscages); Fresh cuts; Farmers choice
• Uganda Industrial Res; Uganda Bureau of Standards
(UBOS)
• Rose butchery
Gender
The mapping of the issues and stakeholders

5. Advocacy,
communication
and
documentation
-working on positive publicity
-disseminate research information into usable
form by development actors
- Using school for technology dissemination
Use platform as data bank
-Inclusion of pig in the national agenda
-Lobbying
-VEDCO
-Media (Bukkede Radio, Daily Monitor, New Vision
journals))
-ILRI
-DANIDA
-MAAIF
-UPP
-Uganda Industrial Research Institute
-UgandaVeterinary Association
Support
systems and
capacity
development
- Finance
- Grants
- Fund raising
- Insurance
- Development partnership
- Regulation (policy change)
- Research
-Business incubation
-VEDCO; Irish Aid; US Aid
-Max Rothschild; UBOS
-Banks (BRAC, FICA, Centanary Bank, VSLA, Financial Trust,
Opportunity International)
-Insurrance (GUT)
-FAO, World Bank
-Local government
Research (COVAB, ILRI, NARO, NaLiRi
Environment
-Waste management
-Biogas
-DANIDA
-Heifer
-International Organizations (UN, FAO, WB)
Gender
The mapping of the issues and stakeholders

6. National Coordinating
Unit (NCU)
Regional
Coordinating
Unit Kampala
area
Central
Coordinating
Unit
Western/South
Coordinating
Unit
Northern
Coordinating
Unit
Eastern
coordinating
Unit
Kampala
Mukono
Wakiso
Mpigi
Masaka
Mubende
Koboka
Rakai
Hoima
Kasese
Masindi
Lira
Gulu
Arua
Moyo
Kamuli
Jinja
Soroti
Secretariat/Databank/Information center
(SNV)
National Coordination Unit (NCU)
• Resource mobilization and coordination
• National level advocacy
• Capacity building
• Regional and international trade
• Legal support
• Support in standard settings
• Research/communication/documentation
Regional Coordination Unit (NCU)
• Networking and coordination of actors
• Collecting and responding to farmers
issues
• Recruiting and reconciling actors
• Linkage and information dissemination
esp. marketing
• Support standards
Secretariat/Databank/Information
center
• Facilitation (logistics/communication)
• Database and website maintenance
(SNV)

7. Way forward………….
• SNV has a lot of experience
facilitating MSPs in all the
agriculture value chains
• CRA signed between ILRI and
SNV
SNV
leadership
(facilitation)