Presented by Siyat Onle (FACTS), Simon Chuchu, Haret Hambe and Henry Kiara (ILRI) at the HEARD Project Stakeholder Workshop−PPP Models for Veterinary Service Delivery ILRI, Addis Ababa, 20 June 2019

1. Public Private Partnerships in Animal Health
Delivery: Experiences from Kenya
Siyat Onle (FACTS), Simon Chuchu, Haret
Hambe and Henry Kiara (ILRI)
HEARD Project Stakeholder Workshop−PPP Models for Veterinary
Service Delivery, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 20 June 2019

2. Outline

3. Background-1
• Poor Animal Health services in extensive livestock
systems due to
• poor infrastructure
• extensive nature of livestock production
• lack of commercial orientation of livestock producers
• high levels of poverty
• socio-cultural reasons-religious taboos, suspicion,
superstition
• low literacy levels
• culture of free services
• lack of information for producers, private sector-absence of
extension service

4. Background-2
• Consequences
• Minimal role of private sector in AH service
delivery-Delivery dependent on government
• Services offered by unqualified personnel leading
to widespread use of fake and counterfeit drugs
• High morbidity and mortality from preventable
diseases
• Market disruption due to frequent outbreaks of
market-sensitive diseases
• High incidence of zoonotic diseases-brucellosis, TB

5. Objective
To evaluate innovations that incentivize
private sector to supplement government
efforts in AH delivery

6. Opportunities
• We identified opportunities for collaboration
between the public and private sectors during
vaccination campaigns by the government
• Governments mounts vaccination campaigns
against different diseases-scheduled or in
response to disease outbreaks from time to time
• Funds are spent on publicising, mobilisation,
camping in remote places for several days
• Provides one (occasionally 2 vaccines) and some
times deworming services

7. Opportunities
• We identified opportunities for private sectors
role during vaccination campaigns
• Private sector could offer additional services to
take advantage of the following:
• Awareness created by the vaccination campaign
• Large numbers of animals in one place
• Presence of government personnel to offer security
• Assurance to livestock keepers of genuine service because
government has approved them
• Sharing of some logistics-transport, cold chain

8. Approach
• ILRI supported Sidai & Facts Limited to pilot
this approach in Marsabit & Garissa during
CCPP and PPR vaccination respectively
• The company offered the following additional
services at a fee
• Deworming
• Tick control
• Clinical services
• Drug sales
• Information
• Additional vaccination

9. Institutional set up
• Government Department in charge of
veterinary services
• Private sector animal health service provider
• Facilitating institution-(NGO, Project etc)
• Community organisation/mechanism through
which awareness is created

10. Facts Agrovet during the AHSD Programme

11. Facts Limited private vets doing extension work on safe use of
drugs

12. On desk ambulatory clinic

13. Camel vaccination and tick control

14. What worked well
• The compnies made significant additional sales
• The company created additional trust among livestock
keepers and opened new markets
• Government received the credit for additional services
• Government saved funds (not buying dewormers) that
went into additional vaccines
• Farmers benefited from a wider range of quality
services
• Greater awareness of modern veterinary services
created among farmers

15. What did not work well
• Some farmers were not willing to buy services
expecting free services from government
• Since this was a new concept, farmers were not aware
there was opportunity to buy additional services, so
did not bring money to the vaccination campaign
• There was initial reluctance from government to allow
private sector to accompany them-they feared private
sector will take their job
• Some farmers thought government staff were selling
drugs provided by the government

16. Critical factors for sustainability
• This is not a PPP in the legal sense but more of a
collaboration between the public and private sectors.
It therefore requires a regulatory framework
• A conducive environment for private sector actors
• Trust between the public and privates sectors
• An entrepreneurial spirit among private sector
players
• A willingness of the public sector to innovate to
address animal health delivery constraints

17. Acknowledgements
This work was financed by
• CGIAR Livestock
• AVCD Livestock component
• Technoserve Kenya
It was implemented in a partnership with
• County Governments of Garissa and Marsabit
• FACTS
• Sidai Africa
• ILRI
• Technoserve Kenya
It contributes to the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock