VC_Toolkit


 * Value Chain Assessment Toolkit **


 * This page provides the draft tools for value chain assessment and benchmarking **

Contribute to an online discussion of this toolkit (December 2014)

Toolkit outline
toc Objectives of the rapid value chain assessment Process tools: Data collection instruments: Training manuals: manual + tools for training (to train core team / value chain coordinators to use the tools) Databases Outline of the report
 * Process guidelines: activities, steps to organize the team (roles), tailoring of tools for the specific VC context, implementation of data collection and analysis, write up, time-frame
 * Protocol: sampling framework, coding
 * Checklists
 * Questionnaires
 * Instruments for GD

Data collection instruments
Modules by: Distinguish by channel Ensure gender mainstreaming
 * Actor level:
 * Service providers (extension, credit, veterinary etc.)
 * Input suppliers (feed, seed, breeding)
 * Producers
 * Traders
 * Processors
 * Retailers
 * Consumers
 * Mixed groups of VC actors for identification of linkages
 * Sector / national level (for target chain and feed, seed, veterinary)
 * Institutions (enabling environment e.g. NGOs, NARS, ARIs, Development agencies, interest groups, industry & producer associations)

Current generic value chain assessment and benchmarking tools
(version 2014, page updated Jan 2014)

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7. Animal Source Food_Participatory Rural Assessment Tools




Country specific value chain assessment (VCA) and benchmarking tools
(June 2012)

Ethiopia Small Ruminants VCA Toolkit (December 2012)

Uganda Smallholder Pigs VCA Toolkit (June 2013)

Vietnam Smallholder Pigs VCA toolkit (2013)

India Smallholder Dairy VCA toolkit (2013)

FGD guide VC mapping cards Gender norms drawings
 * Bangladesh fish VC and gender and social analysis toolkit (July 2015):**

PIM toolkit
Link to the Livestock Data Innovation Project: Constraint Analysis workshops wiki: Set of tools and checklists developed for CRP2 by the livestock data innovation project

Core team for toolkit development
(March 2012)

Froukje Kruijssen (WorldFish) Kate Longley (WorldFish) Epi Katjiuongua (ILRI)


 * **Person** || **Area** ||
 * Froukje Kruijssen || Socio-economics, coordination/facilitation ||
 * Karen Marsall || Breeding/genetics ||
 * Delia Grace || Food safety ||
 * Fred Unger || Animal health ||
 * Rein Van der Hoek/Ben Lukuyu || Feeds ||
 * Malcolm Dickson || Aquaculture ||
 * Rein Van der Hoek/Karen Marshall || Animal husbandry / production systems ||
 * Wanjiku || Gender ||
 * //Nancy// || //M&E// ||
 * //Kees// || //Innovation// ||