A poster prepared for the ILRI Annual Program Meeting (APM) 2010, held at ILRI campus, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 14-17, 2010.

1. Results oriented M&E in PROGEBE
•The contribution of collaboration to impacts of research: lessons from the Kenya Smallholder Dairy project .
•Support to the CPWF Nile Basin Co-ordination on impact pathway analysis, monitoring, evaluation and learning.
POVERTY AND GENDER GROUP (P&G)
Understand and measure the contributions of livestock and
livestock innovations to the livelihoods of the poor, in
different systems and contexts. Some examples include:
Developing and piloting index-based livestock insurance
Livestock R & D efforts of ILRI and
(IBLI) to reduce poverty and vulnerability
partners are more explicitly
Characterizing and quantifying the importance of
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endemic ruminant livestock in the livelihoods of the
rural poor in West Africa (PROGEBE)
Opportunities and trade-offs around crop residues in
mixed crop-livestock systems in South Asia
Document and analyze the importance of livestock to poor
women, and identify gender-related constraints to owning
livestock, accessing improved technologies and services, and Contribution of livestock to poverty
participating in and benefiting from livestock value chains alleviation and women’s empowerment
and to develop and test strategies to address these recognized by policy makers and investors
constraints. Some examples include:
Securing women’s access to livestock assets and
income in Kenya and Mozambique
Increasing benefits from livestock and livestock
markets for women in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania
Reaching women in the East African Dairy Development
project
Capacity i i
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partners to scale up and out lessons and
Conduct research and provide strategic support in areas such impacts to other partners and settings
as project development, monitoring and evaluation (M&E),
and partnership facilitation. Examples include:
Results-oriented M&E in PROGEBE
The contribution of collaboration to impacts of research:
lessons from the Kenya Smallholder Dairy project
Support to the CPWF Nile Basin Co-ordination on impact
pathway analysis, monitoring, evaluation & learning
And the not so good news is …
The good news is … Livestock interventions that don’t take into
account livestock’s multiple uses and users could
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Livestock are an important asset, and a source fail to have impact or inadvertently hurt women
April 2010
of income, farm inputs, and nutrition food. and the poor.