Update on value chain
development theme
Tom Randolph (ILRI)
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
Planning Meeting
ILRI Nairobi
27 September 2011

Three platforms for generating productivity
Improved Technologies
Animal genetics
Animal feeds
Animal health
Value Chain Development
Sectorial and policy analysis
Value chain assessment
Value chain innovation
Targeting, Gender and Impact
Systems analysis and targeting
Gender and equity
M&E and impact assessment

Value Chain Development
Overall outcome
1. A multi-faceted strategy actively being implemented by development
actors in each of the 9 target value chains that is significantly increasing
productivity and benefits to the poor, while minimizing impacts on the
environment
 Based on strategies and evidence generated by CRP3.7 and partners
 Research is ongoing to address priority constraints in medium and
longer term to sustain productivity growth
2. Proven value chain development approaches, methods and tools are
being applied by the research and development communities globally

Sectoral and Policy Analysis
Component 2.1
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
Planning Meeting
ILRI Nairobi
27 September 2011

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Impact pathway and outcomes
Pathway: CRP3.7 works with partners to conduct analyses and
generate evidence and engage with policymakers and
stakeholders to understand the whether and how the target value
chain should be ‘enabled’ (economic, social, environmental)
Outcome: Consensus achieved among national and regional
policymakers regarding pro-poor policies and investment
strategies to support development of the 9 target value chains
 Competitive viability of the target value chain, and
particularly its pro-poor aspects, confirmed and recognized
 Policymakers aware of implications of development and
growth of the target value chains in terms of possible socio-
economic and environmental trade-offs

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Current Activities & Resources
Overall A. Gelan (economist)
India Ongoing engagement in Assam on dairy policy
Ethiopia Sector modeling; livestock component of GDP calculation
LIVES*:
Mali PROGEBE: investment policies to conserve endemic cattle and SR (Fadiga,
economist)
Tanzania EADD*:
ASARECA PAAP*:
Vietnam Major ACIAR project on competitiveness of smallholder pig systems
recently completed
Uganda ASARECA: Aquaculture development
EC*:
Egypt
Nicaragua CFC: Improving competitiveness of informal actors in dairy VCs
Other DANIDA*: Environmental assessment for aquaculture in Zambia
EC*: CSISA for aquaculture in Bangladesh

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Proposed Intermediate Outcomes
 Methods/toolkits to support policy analysis for pro-poor VC
development
 Economic
 Social (from Gender & Equity)
 Environmental
 Basic sectoral and economy-wide models established for scenario
analysis for each VC
 Prospective national (regional) sectoral market assessments

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes Decision makers and Partners have capacity to
stakeholders are confident of apply rapid situational
(potential) competitiveness of analysis
target VCs
Research 1. Conceptual framework for 1. Methodology for 1. Prototype
Outputs sectoral and policy analysis sectoral and economy- sectoral models
wide modeling for economic
2. Methodology for rapid established analysis of
situational analysis target VCs
established developed and
applied to
3. Rapid situational analyses
relevant
for each target value,
scenario
including basic market and
analysis
equity assessments
 Environmental impact assessment ?

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Key Partners
Overall CRP2 (IFPRI), Michigan State Univ
India ?
Ethiopia ?
Mali ECOFIL (IER), CORAF, ECOWAS
Tanzania Sokoine Univ of Agriculture, ASARECA
Vietnam CAP, Hanoi Univ of Agriculture
Uganda Makerere Univ., ASARECA
Egypt ?
Nicaragua ?
Other

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
Priorities for Resource Mobilization
2012 2013 2014
Research 1. Conceptual framework for 1. Methodology for 1. Prototype
Outputs sectoral and policy analysis sectoral and economy- sectoral models
wide modeling for economic
2. Methodology for rapid established analysis of
situational analysis target VCs
established developed and
3. Rapid situational analyses applied to
for each target value, relevant
including basic market and scenario analysis
equity assessments
Priorities Individual or multiple-country projects to assess competitiveness of target
for new VCs using sectoral modeling (including at least 1 full-time analyst)
proposals
 Environmental impact assessment ?

2.1 Sectoral & Policy Analysis
2012 Priorities for
Organisational, Capacity Development and
Communication Activities
 Restructure team to match CRP needs
 Identify gaps for priority recruitment and partnership
 Identify strategy and mechanisms for working links internally with
other CRP3.7 components, and externally with CRP2

Value Chain Assessment
Component 2.2
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
Planning Meeting
ILRI Nairobi
27 September 2011

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Impact pathway and outcomes
Pathway: CRP3.7 works with R&D partners to conduct field studies to
identify opportunities, test best-bet strategies and generate
evidence to inform and stimulate development interventions for
pro-poor upgrading of the target value chains
Outcome: Improved and increased public and private sector
interventions being applied by development actors to support
women and resource-poor value chain actors and
consumers, with lower ecological footprint per unit produce

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Staff playing major role
ILRI Economists: I. Baltenweck, L. Lapar, T. Randolph, S. Staal, 2 positions being
recruited * (* one based in Uganda)
Epidemiologist: A. Omore
Nutritionist: B. Lukuyu
Animal health: position being recruited* (*based in Uganda)
WorldFish Egypt: VC Expert I (to be hired), G. El Naggar
Uganda: VC Expert II (to be hired)
Zambia: M Beveridge
CIAT Forage specialist: B. Maass (Nairobi)
Laos: T. Tiemann, G. Varney; R. Lefroy
Colombia: M. Peters, S. Martens, F. Holmann
Nicaragua: R. van der Hoek
ICARDA Ethiopia: VC Coordinator (to be hired)
Syria: A. Aw-Hassan, B. Rischkowsky, A. Haile

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Current Activities & Resources
India Ongoing engagement in Assam on dairy policy
Ethiopia ADA*: Community-based sheep breeding schemes (ICARDA, ILRI)
LIVES*:
Mali PROGEBE: Market development for indigenous cattle, SR in Mali (Guinea,
Senegal, Gambia)
Tanzania EADD & EADD2*: Dairy development in Tanzania (Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda,
Rwanda)
ASARECA Dairy & meat product quality and safety in East Africa
BMGF: Livestock data innovation in Tanzania (Uganda, Niger)
ASARECA PAAP*: in Tanzania (Uganda, Kenya)
Vietnam Major ACIAR project on competitiveness of smallholder pig systems
recently completed (ILRI)
IFAD: Improved forage-based feeding systems in Vietnam (Cambodia, Laos:
CIAT)

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Current Activities & Resources
Uganda ASARECA, EC*: Aquaculture development
BMGF: Livestock data innovation in Uganda (Tanzania, Niger)
ASARECA PAAP*: in Tanzania (Uganda, Kenya)
EC-IFAD*: Improving the smallholder pig value chain
Egypt SDC*: Aquaculture
Nicaragua ADA: Eco-efficient pro-poor crop-livestock systems in Nicaragua (Colombia)
BMZ: Forages for monograstics in Nicaragua (Colombia, DRC)
CIAT BMZ*: Climate-smart crop-livestock systems in Nicaragua (Colombia)
CFC*: Improving competitiveness of informal actors in dairy VCs (Colombia)
USDA: Food for Progress
Other ACIAR*: Inland aquaculture in the Solomon Islands (WF)
BMZ: Climate change and water use for aquaculture in southern Africa (WF)
ACIAR: Improved pig production in Laos (CIAT)
AUSAID*: Harnessing husbandry of cavy in Cameroon and DRC (CIAT)

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Proposed Intermediate Outcomes
 Preliminary sets of methods and toolkits established for pro-poor
VC development
 VC development strategies established with partners in target
VCs, with evidence base generated and stimulating development
investment
 VC needs are effectively informing priorities for technology
research

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes CRP3.7, local and 1. Partners have capacity to Evidence base in each
international partners have use basic set of tools for VC target VC for best-bet
established an R&D alliance toassessment pro-poor VC
transform target VC in each 2. Stakeholders in each development
country country are increasingly interventions is
aware of potential, influencing
constraints and initial development
options for pro-poor investment decisions
development of target VC

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes R&D alliance 1. capacity to use tools Evidence base
2. Stakeholders aware influencing decisions
Research 1. Scoping study to characterize 1. Inventory and evidence base 1. Best-bet intervention
Outputs target VC and identify (literature review) for key strategy formulated and
stakeholders and potential constraints and proposed tested, ready for piloting
partners solutions compiled
2. Basic toolkit for VC assessment 2. Quantitative assessment of
compiled for testing VC performance
3. Analytical framework for 3. Technical and economic
assessing VC performance assessments of key VC
established components to target for
4. Rapid assessment of target VC upgrading (e.g. farm-level:
to inform design of in-depth husbandry, feeds, breeds,
assessment, and to identify health, environmental issues;
preliminary priority constraints market-level: institutional
and best-bet upgrading strategies environment, food safety,
to test (including specific demand characteristics;
components on environmental overall: policies, organizational
impacts, food safety risk strategies
assessment and gender analysis)

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Key Partners
Overall CRP2, GTZ, CIRAD
India BAIF
Ethiopia EARO
Mali ECOFIL (IER), CIRAD
Tanzania Sokoine Univ of Agriculture, ASARECA
Vietnam National Institute of Animal Science, Hanoi Univ of Agriculture, IPSARD,
Min. Ag&RD
Uganda Makerere Univ., VEDCO, Kamuzinda Farm, NAADS
Egypt ?
Nicaragua ?
Other

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Priorities for Resource Mobilization
2012 2013 2014
Priorities 1. Individual or multiple-country projects to identify and test best-bet
for new upgrading strategies for each target VC (perhaps more manageable if
proposals done separately at farm and market levels): all countries except Uganda
2. Project to design and test analytical framework for assessing and
monitoring VC performance (both as basis for M&E and as analytical
tool) (under CRP2??)
3. Field studies to develop assessment methods for prioritizing animal
health and public health (with CRP4.3) priorities for pro-poor VC
development
4. Cross-project evaluation of VCA process, development of better metrics
and guidelines (WF)

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
2012 Priorities for
Organisational, Capacity Development and
Communication Activities
 Restructure team to match CRP needs, with shared vision and
assignments for subject/VC focus
 Identify gaps for priority recruitment or partnership
 Identify strategy and mechanisms for working links internally with
other CRP3.7 components, and externally with CRP2, CRP4
 Develop a communication strategy targeted to stakeholders and
partners in each target VC

2.2 Value Chain Assessment
Composition of VCD Team
Key Dimensions Support
Value chain analysis- economist CRP2
Innovation specialist ?
Feed specialist CRP3.7.1.3
Breeding specialist CRP3.7.1.2
Animal health specialist CRP3.7.1.1
Animal husbandry specialist ?
Farm management specialist – econ ?
Post-harvest specialist ?
Business development ?
Gender specialist CRP3.7.3.2
M&E specialist CRP3.7.3.3
Sector & policy analyst CRP3.7.3.1; CRP2
Environmental impact analyst ?
Partnership engagement ?

Value Chain Innovation
Component 2.3
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
Planning Meeting
ILRI Nairobi
27 September 2011

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Impact pathway and outcomes
Pathway: CRP3.7 works with partners to identify and test the
principles and methods that permit research to promote and
replicate effective and sustained pro-poor change in value chains
Outcome: Enhanced pro-poor value chain performance and more
equitable distribution of benefits.

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Current Activities & Resources
Overall R. Puskur (economist), B. Boogaard, 2 WorldFish value chain experts being
recruited
India
Ethiopia LIVES*: Learning platforms in Ethiopia
Mali PROGEBE: Innovation platforms in Mali (Guinea, Senegal, Gambia)
Tanzania EADD*: Dairy development in East Africa
Vietnam IFAD: Improved forage-based feeding systems in Vietnam (Cambodia, Laos:
CIAT)
Uganda ASARECA: Aquaculture development
BMZ small grant: Dry season forages for smallholders in Uganda (Kenya,
Rwanda)

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Current Activities & Resources
Overall R. Puskur (economist), B. Boogaard, 2 WorldFish value chain experts being
recruited
Egypt
Nicaragua ADA: Eco-efficient pro-poor crop-livestock systems in Nicaragua (Colombia)
BMZ: Forages for monograstics in Nicaragua (Colombia, DRC)
BMZ*: Climate-smart crop-livestock systems in Nicaragua (Colombia)
CFC*: Improving competitiveness of informal actors in dairy VCs (Colombia)
USDA*: Food for Progress
Other ACIAR*: Inland aquaculture in the Solomon Islands (WF)
BMZ*: Food value chain innovation with aquaculture in Zambia (WF)
ACIAR: Improved pig production in Laos (CIAT)
AUSAID*: Harnessing husbandry of cavy in Cameroon and DRC (CIAT)

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Proposed Intermediate Outcomes
 Capacity established among key actors within the 9 target value
chains to identify and address innovation needs and to access
and use appropriate technologies, institutional strategies and
knowledge.

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes 1. Partners in project areas are 1. Stakeholders in target
using methods for value chains are accessing
identifying opportunities for knowledge, technologies
and stimulating innovation and testing packages of
in target value chains interventions for value
2. Partners in target value chain development
chains are identifying actors 2. R&D Partners and VC
and organizations that can actors are using
provide access to mechanisms for
technologies, knowledge monitoring and learning
and stategies and building from the innovation
linkages with them processes and outcomes

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes 1. Using methods 1. Testing packages
2. Identifying actors 2. Monitoring & learning
Research 1. Analytical
Outputs framework for
innovation capacity
evaluation and
designing
interventions for VC
development
2. Tools and metrics
for monitoring
innovation
processes and
outcomes

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes 1. Using methods 1. Testing packages
2. Identifying actors 2. Monitoring & learning
Research 1. Analytical 1. Review paper and policy brief on VCA and VC
Outputs framework innovation in aquaculture completed
2. Tools and metrics 2. Discussion paper on strategies for innovation in
for monitoring target VCs
3. Reflective analysis of action research and
monitoring methods employed
4. Policy brief on sheep VC innovation
5. Assessment of environmental benefits from crop-
livestock systems adapted to climate change
6. Analysis of sociocultural and economic factors
driving adoption of eco-efficient crop-livestock
systems
7. Implementation strategies and tools for adaptation
and dissemination of eco-efficient agroforestry
and livestock systems suitable for the sub-humid
tropics
8. Development of strategies for scaling up and out

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Proposed Priority Outcomes & Outputs
2012 2013 2014
Outcomes 1. Using methods 1. Testing packages
2. Identifying 2. Monitoring & learning
actors
Research 1. Analytical 1. Review paper and policy 1. Analysis of incentive systems and
Outputs framework brief in aquaculture strategies for mobilising private
2. Tools and 2. Discussion paper on sector participation and provision
metrics for strategies of BDS in VC development
monitoring 3. Reflective analysis 2. Analysis of innovation strategies
4. Policy brief on sheep VC that make VC development pro-
5. Assessment of poor and pro-women
environmental benefits 3. Lessons on process facilitation for
6. Analysis of adoption of mobilising collective action for VC
eco-efficient systems innovation
7. Strategies for eco- 4. Analysis of strategies for policy
efficient systems engagement for facilitating an
8. Strategies for scaling up enabling environment and policy
and out framework for livestock VC
development
5. A framework for scaling up and out
innovation for VC development

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Key Partners
Overall CRP 1.1, 1.2
India BAIF (and others depending on locations chosen)
Ethiopia ARARI, ??
Mali ECOFIL (IER), CIRAD
Tanzania Sokoine Univ of Agriculture, ASARECA
Vietnam ?
Uganda Makerere Univ., VEDCO, Kamuzinda Farm
Egypt ?
Nicaragua ?
Other Wageningen university, IDS

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
Priorities for Resource Mobilization
2012 2013 2014
Research 1. Using methods 1. Testing packages
Outputs 2. Identifying actors 2. Monitoring & learning
Priorities 1. Funds for cross-project evaluation of innovation process, development of
for new better metrics and guidelines
proposals 2. Source funding for work in Central America

2.3 Value Chain Innovation
2012 Priorities for
Organisational, Capacity Development and
Communication Activities
 Recruit:
 1 additional post-doc (ILRI)
 1 additional VC scientist, Egypt (WorldFish)
 VC expert, Zambia (Uganda) (WorldFish)
 Restructure team to match CRP needs
 Identify and develop collaboration on innovation across 3.7 Centers
 Develop strategy to fit within the overall 3.7 communication strategy
 Develop a capacity building strategy on innovation for the CRP3.7
implementing staff and in target VCs based on a needs assessment
 Capacity building workshops for R&D partners in IAR4D and IP
approaches, process and outcome monitoring
 Seek further integration of ILRI led work in Uganda and Viet Nam with
CIAT led activities in SE Asia
 Workshop and report to establish and train appropriate methodologies
for village-level data collection