The 'Maziwa Zaidi' program aims to enhance the dairy value chain in Tanzania through strategic partnerships and initiatives focused on input access, animal health, food safety, nutrition, and gender equity. It includes multiple projects designed to improve the livelihoods of smallholder dairy farmers by implementing scalable value chain approaches and fostering market hubs for better resource access. The program envisions sustainable dairy development by leveraging research and collaboration among stakeholders to target the needs of marginalized communities.

1. Maziwa Zaidi
(Tanzania dairy value chain development program)
Amos Omore
ILRI-Tanzania
Inception Workshop of the USAID ITM Scaling Project in Tanzania
Bagamoyo, 29 Sept 2015

2. Improved access & use of inputs and services
allows smaller more productive herds!

3. Vision: an inclusive and sustainable development of the
dairy value chain.
Long term goals

4. Big Picture: Place of individual projects in
‘Maziwa Zaidi’

5. Key partnerships and engagements
1. Strategic Research Partnerships
• SUA
• TALIRI
 Reinforced by CGIAR & ARIs
2. Development Partnerships
• Servicing the system: Heifer and
SNV
• From the system: TDB, FAIDA
MaLi
3. Multi-stakeholder processes for
strengthening relationships
• DDF
• Local area platforms

6. Resource Mobilization last 3 years: on-going and closed
Feeds
1. Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in Tanzania and India through feed innovation and value chain
development approaches (MilkIT; IFAD) - closed
2. Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock
systems in Tanzania (USAID)
3. Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Small-Scale Irrigation in Tanz, Eth and Gh (USAID) - new
Genetics
4. Dairy Genetics East Africa Phase II (DGEA2, BMGF) - closed
5. Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania
(TDG, AgriTT-DFID)
Animal health
6. What’s killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases in smallholder dairying in Tanzania (GIZ) - closed
Food safety/nutrition
7. Safe food, fair food (SFFF2, BMZ) - closed
8. Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock
and fish market chains (ACIAR) - closed
9. Leveraging Dairy Value Chain Development in Tanzania for Improved Nutrition and Health of
Women and Children (USAID Linkage) - new
10. Study on “Looking beyond income: impact of hubs on human nutrition in Tanz” (SPIA) - new
Markets/hubs
11. More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value chains
in Tanzania (MoreMilkIT; Irish Aid)
12. East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) Phase II (BMGF)
Environment:
13. CLEANED (BMGF)
Gender (and above)
13. Dairy goat and root crop production (CGP, IDRC) - closed

7. Pipeline
Status Short title Topic Partners
(lead 1st)
Duration Budget Donor Comments
Pipeline
submitted/r
ecently
received
CGP Gender SUA, UA,
Heifer, ILRI
CAD5,000,000
(ILRI: 593,000)
IDRC, CIDA Failed
FTF Innov Lab Feeds Texas, ILRI 2015-20 ILRI: 1,248,000 USAID Funds cover Tanz,
Eth & Ghana
Women &
Gender
Nutrition ILRI, SUA 2014-15 US$ 50,000 USAID
Linkage
Hubs impact on
nutrition
Nutrition ILRI, SUA 2014-15 US$ 100,000 SPIA
Ecf itm IA An hlth /M&E ILRI 2016-16 US$100,000 SPIA ?
Sustainable
intensification
Environment CIAT 2015-17 € 80,000 BMZ
LIQUID Production /
quality
WUR 2015- None to ILRI WOTRO To support
students
ECF ITM
Delivery
Health ILRI 2015-16 $ 100,000 USAID
BMGF Gender ILRI
IMMANA Nutrition
metrics
RUFORUM students

8. MoreMilk in Tanzania (MoreMilkiT) Project
Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value chains in Tanzania
Potential synergies to enhance ITM delivery

9. MoreMilkiT Objectives
1. Develop scalable value chains business approaches with improved
organization and institutions serving resource-poor male and female
smallholder dairy households
2. Generate and communicate evidence on business and
organizational options for increasing participation of resource-poor
male and female households in dairy value chains
MoreMilkiT – Objectives
Key question: How can policy be informed and
influenced so that dairy sector investments are deployed
to better target the poor and marginalized?
To achieve this, we must:
It’s about extending the frontiers of commercial dairying in Tanzania!

10. Leah Mwilaki’s business represents what we want to multiply
• Leah’s business interlocks input & output transactions between where
farmers come together in small groups to access the desired inputs or
services with their milk delivery as collateral (check-off). Earns about
$700/mo
• She represents a critical linkage in the dairy market hub (DMH) approach
that the MoreMilkiT Project partnership is piloting to grow dairying in
marginalized areas. The hubs could act as platforms to improve quality
assurance
MoreMilkiT

11. Pilot sites
Site selection criteria (conducted in 2012)
High cattle density; High poverty level; High population density; Good access to market; High production
potential; Deficit areas with potential for increasing supply through feed interventions; Potential
partners/stakeholders.

12. W/Luhindo
konje
msomera
kibaya
kwabaya
sindeni
twatwatwa
mabwegere
madoto
kwambe
kambala
W/sokoine
W/dakawa
mbwade
kwediyamba
Mela
Mangae
kweditilibe
Imfilisi
U/kibaoni
masatu
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
Score Level of Group Advancement-
Extensive
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
Score
Level of Group Advancement-
Intensive
Relative advancement in group development – 25 Sept 2015
2300
produces in
30 villages

13. Research & Learning: MLE, ToC
reflections and targeted studies
Project
interventio
n
Project
activities
&
outputs
Farmer &
communit
y change
in
behaviour
Outcome
s at
househol
d &
group
levels
Analyses
&
reflectio
ns
MoreMilkiT: Objective 2
Monitoring changes at household, community
and national levels

14. CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR
Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems
in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org