Introduction to TAAT and the livestock compact
(Small ruminant)
Iddo Dror
Program Leader, Impact at Scale
TAAT Small Ruminants Value Chain Inception Meeting, ILRI Addis Ababa
22 June 2018

TAAT and Feed Africa
TAAT is part of AfDB’s “Feed Africa”
Strategy, which aims to achieve major
agricultural transformation:
150m people adequately fed / 100m
people lifted out of poverty / 190m
hectares with restored productivity
TAAT supports Feed Africa by providing
needed, proven agricultural
technologies and implementation
strategies for inclusion within AfDB's
loans to Regional Member Countries.

TAAT Objectives

Fundamental Guiding Principles of TAAT
Technologymatters
Technology Scale
policy &
regulatory
environment
Partnerships
&
collaboration

Funding overview
• Relatively small central funds (grant), with much larger country
program (loan) operations.
• Central funds spread across 9 compacts and 6 enablers,
operating across 27 countries
• Central funds meant as ‘showcase’ to catalyze investments, and
link to actors whose activities are aligned

Livestock Compact - Overview
• Poultry and Small Ruminants
Value Chains (with several sub-
components in each)
• Focus countries include
Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, with
country operation support in a
few other countries
• Focus on scaling proven
technologies – not a research
program

Livestock Compact – key activities
(small ruminants)
• Advise regulatory authorities on implementation of
enabling regulations for small ruminants,
• Network actors for improved forage options &
efficient feeding systems, fattening enterprises and
feed processors.
• Promotion of business models for fattening
enterprises and feed processors for small ruminants
• Scaling of Improved Forage Options & Efficient
Feeding Systems

Expectations
• We’re here to unleash the
‘Regional Technology Delivery
Infrastructure’ for small
ruminants in Ethiopia
• Looking for ‘quick wins’, scaling
results in 2018
• Explore how best to do this
together in Ethiopia.

Components of the TAAT Program
Creation of Enabling
Environment
Regional Technology
Delivery Infrastructure
(RTDI)
Strengthening
Technology Delivery
Project Management &
Coordination
TAAT Structure
9 Compacts, 6 Enablers, Activities in 27 African countries

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