Sustainable Business through Training for Veterinary Paraprofessionals
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Sustainable Business through Training for Veterinary Paraprofessionals
- 1. VPP Project Presentation Project Presentation Sustainable Business in Animal Health Service Provision through Training for Veterinary Paraprofessionals Holly Hufnagel – EuFMD Project coordinator
- 2. Context: Why this project? Livestock are critical to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers There is growing demand for animal-based proteins and products knock-on increased demand for animal health services Gap between supply and demand of primary animal health care services in remote areas. Due to limited presence of veterinarians (both public and private) This gap is often filled by veterinary paraprofessionals who face a number of challenges
- 3. • Lack of further training & absence of mentoring and supervision • Challenge for self-employed VPPs to generate sufficient income from service provision • Weak veterinary medicine supply chain linkages Challenges for VPPs:
- 4. VPP Project Presentation KEY DATA PROJECT GOAL Project Goal and Key Data To improve VPP capacity to deliver essential animal health services in key geographies to help reduce animal mortality and increase the productivity of livestock assets for smallholder livestock keepers Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa 2021 - 2023 Partnership Increase agricultural productivity for Smallholder Farmers
- 5. VPP Project Presentation • Competency framework • Certification of acquired competencies • Linkages with farmers • Linkages with vets and veterinary medicine suppliers • Public private multi-stakeholder platform • Business & soft skills • Technical skills: preventive animal health care 3 KEY PILLARS Certification Support to VPP Business Environment: Competency Based Training : Blended Learning PROJECT GOAL: To improve veterinary paraprofessional capacity to deliver essential animal health services in key geographies
- 6. Pillar 1: Competency based training Materials developed available for re- use, including by partners and in other locations. Guided by a participatory training needs assessment Modular continuing professional development (CPD) Blended approach combining online with practical training and mentoring by local partners. Selection of short technical modules in preventive animal health care. Foundational business skills course VPPs build their own learning path
- 7. Pillar 2: Certification of training Smallholder farmers recognize added value of a VPP that has received certification. Recognised by a certification process ● Individual CPD modules gain CPD credit points + completion of all modules to achieve a certificate in preventive animal health care. Other organizations are able to contribute CPD training under the same framework. The competency framework and certification process are designed so that other organizations are able to contribute training courses within the same framework. underpinned by a national competency framework. CPD courses are: Veterinary Statutory Body
- 8. Pillar 3: Support to VPP business environment Public-private multi-stakeholder platform for last mile animal health care Forum for exchange in order to: - Identify solutions to address key challenges - Develop plan to support sustainable veterinary paraprofessional business development - Incubator for development of individual PPPs PUBLIC SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR ASSOCIATIONS NGOs / DONORS Banks Pharmaceutical companies Service providers Ministry Veterinary Statutory Body Public Institutes Vet VPP Farmer Pharmaceutical
- 9. VPP Project Presentation Thank you! Acknowledgements EuFMD/FAO Keith Sumption Fabrizio Rosso World Veterinary Association Zeev Noga Emma van Rooijen HealthforAnimals Carel du Marchie Sarvaas Jennifer Essolomwa
- 10. Sustainable development goals, UN-SDGs. EuFMD’s programme has a main focus on fao.eufmd.org eufmdlearning.works . eufmdvirtual.com. linktr.ee/eufmd.. Follow @eufmd and use #eufmd to tag us
Editor's Notes
- Thankyou very much. My name is Holly Hufnagel and I am the EuFMD coordinator of the project Sustainable Business in Animal Health Service Provision through Training for Veterinary Paraprofessionals
- The context of our project is that despite livestock being critical to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and pastoralists there is a gap between supply and demand of primary animal health care services in remote areas. This is due to the limit presence and in some cases complete absence of veterinarians in remote areas. This gap is often filled by veterinary paraprofessionals who face a number of challenges in their profession:
- Lack of further training and absence of mentoring or supervision Weak veterinary medicine supply chain linkages Challenge for self employed VPPs to generate sufficient income form their services Our project aims to address some of these challenges
- The ultimate goal is to increase agricultural productivity of smallholder farmers – and we aim to do this by improving VPP capacity to deliver essential animal health services. We are piloting this project in Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa And it is a partnership between the European Commission for the control of foot and mouth disease- EuFMD- of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, HealthforAnimals and World Veterinary Association
- Our project is founded on three pillars which I will present subsequently in a bit more detail: The first is Competency based training focussed on both business skills and preventive animal health care The second pillar is the Certification of acquired competencies- to give recognition to upskilled VPPs And the third pillar focusses on supporting VPP business environment.
- We will develop our training courses based on the results of a participatory training needs assessment conducted at VPP and smallholder farmer level in each country. Central to our approach is modular continuing professional development. Veterinary paraprofessionals can build their own individual learning paths. They would start with a foundational business course which culminates in them own developing a business plan. And this business plan and the identification of their key income streams will then help guide their choice of technical modules in preventive animal health care. A blended approach will be used combining online with practical training and mentoring by local partners.
- The CPD courses developed will fit within a country specific competency framework for Veterinary Paraprofessionals. And they can hen be certified by the Veterinary Statutory Body. Individual CPD modules help gain CPD credit points and the completion of a set of modules can would lead to a certificate in preventive animal health care
- A corner stone of our activities to support the VPP business environment, is the establishment of a public private multi-stakeholder platform. Which would be a forum for exchange in order to identify solutions to address the key challenges that VPPs face and develop a joint plan to support sustainable VPP business development. Ultimate it can serve as a national incubator for the development of individual VPPs. On this platform should be assembled a wide group of stakeholders from the public sector, private sector and civil society.
- Thank you very much