Ben Lukuyu
MilkIT Pre-inception Workshop, Nairobi
24th – 25th January 2012
VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS - EXPERIENCE FROM
EADD AND IDEAS FOR MILKIT

IMPLEMENTATIONS OF FEED INTERVENTIONS
Blanket
Year 1-1.5 implementatio
n across all
hubs
FEAST Tool
Hub specific
Year 1.5 - date feed
interventions

EXAMPLES OF EADD FEED VC ANALYSIS
 Pulverizing and use of fodder/crop residues
in selected EADD hubs
 Feed/Fodder marketing study in selected
EADD hubs
 The concentrate feed value chains in
Uganda
 Assessment of the forage seed production
and delivery systems in Kenya, Uganda and
Rwanda panned for 2012

BROAD OBJECTIVES
 Provide a current understanding of the
respective value chains
 Identification of key constraints and opportunities
 Identification of key actors and potential leverage
points to bring about change (making linkages,
training/developing capacity etc.)

PROCESS
 Identifying key value chains that influence
feed quantity and quality
 Baselinestudy
 Hubs specific rapid appraisals (FEAST tool)
 Stakeholder workshops/partner meetings
 Developing methodology/approach
 Identifying/developing tools
 Planning – teams, logistics,

PROCESS
 Implementation – data collection, entry &
analysis
 Feedback to stakeholders
 Sieving out key issues to follow up on

LESSONS LEARNED – PULVERIZER STUDY
 Identified problems/ inefficiencies with
different machines
 Linked the operators to local producers and
worked with them to improve the machines/for
repairs
 Cash flow problems
 Linked new operators to hubs to obtained
financing to buy machines
 Lack of knowledge about feed mixing
 Trained operators and provided leaflets on feed
mixing

LESSONS LEARNED – FODDER MARKET SURVEY
 Provided information about trading of
feed/fodder i.e. constraints & opportunities,
types, sources, pricing
 Created linkages for feed supply between
deficit and production zones through hubs
(within and outside EADD sites)

CONCENTRATE FEEDS VC IN UGANDA
 Lack of feed policy, regulation
 Unqualifiedsmall scale players in the industry
 Cheap and poor feed quality
• Follow up
 Engage stakeholders to
 Highlight constraints and opportunities
 Catalyze enactment of the feed policy
 Involve them in feed regulation
 Working with partners to build capacity on feed rationing

SOME IDEAS FOR MILKIT
 Identification of specific feed value chains
that influence quantity, quality and
seasonality of feeds
 Need for in-depth study of each value
chain/combine this with mapping of actors in
the VC
 Need to blend quick qualitative assessment
and quantitative analysis