Ethiopia_ruminants_vcconsultation2012

= = Ethiopian Small Ruminant Value Chain Consultative Meeting =6 July 2012= =ILRI Addis Ababa=


 * Photos from the meeting**


 * Objectives**


 * arrive at a common understanding of the goals, objectives and implementation approach of the program;
 * discuss criteria for site selection and identify project implementation sites;
 * identify potential partners and relevant research and development projects and their roles in the project; and
 * Come up with a road map for implementation.


 * Participants**
 * No || Name || Organization ||
 * 1 || Geletu Bejiga || ICARDA ||
 * 2 || Aynalem Haile || ICARDA ||
 * 3 || Peter Ballantyne || ILRI ||
 * 4 || Seid Ahmed || ICARDA ||
 * 5 || Furgassa Bedada || Farm Africa ||
 * 6 || Solomon Abegaz || Institute of biodiversity conservation ||
 * 7 || Getachew Gebru || Eth. Society of Animal Prod ||
 * 8 || Assefa Tewodros || Pastoral Community Dev’t Project (PCDP) ||
 * 9 || Barbara Rischkowski || ICARDA ||
 * 10 || Solomon Gizaw || Debre Birhan Research Center ||
 * 11 || Haimanot Asmerew || GIZ ||
 * 12 || Dagne Tefera || Elfora ||
 * 13 || Mahmud Haji Hassen || Ministry of Agriculture ||
 * 14 || Getachew Legesse || Private ||
 * 15 || Tadelle Dessie || ILRI ||
 * 16 || Girma Zewde || Addis Ababa University School of Vet. Medicine ||
 * 17 || Alan Duncan || ILRI-PLE ||
 * 18 || Yetnayet Mamo || ILRI ||
 * 19 || Lucy Lagoze || World Food Prize Borlaug-Ruan International ||
 * 20 || Dirk Hoekstra || ILRI ||
 * 21 || Nigatu Alemayehu || ILRI ||
 * 22 || Tsehay Gashaw || ILRI ||

**Agenda**
Opening remarks Objectives and expectations Participant introductions || Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA) Ministry of Agriculture Peter Ballantyne (ILRI) ||
 * ** Time ** || ** Activity ** || ** Notes ** ||
 * 08:30 || Registration ||  ||
 * 09:00 || Welcome
 * 09:30 || Introduction to the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

Introduction to sheep value chains in Ethiopia



Discussion || Tadelle Dessie (ILRI)

Solomon Gizaw (National Coordinator Small Ruminant Research) || Report back (5 min each) ||
 * 10:30 || Break ||  ||
 * 11:00 || Small Ruminant Value Chain (SR-VC) Development in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges, and Approach || Group work (45 min) by topics
 * 12:00

12:45 || Presentation on site selection process and criteria for small ruminant value chains in Ethiopia Discussion Group Exercise on site selection criteria

See background information here || Barbara Rischkowsky (ICARDA)

Peter Ballantyne ||
 * 13:00 || Lunch ||  ||
 * 14:00

14:15 || Snapshots of ongoing initiatives related to SR VCs by participants Mapping initiatives and potential partners for SR VCs || Peter Ballantyne

Group work by regions (45 min) Report back (5 min each) || Priority sites and locations See background information here || Alan Duncan (ILRI) Group work on prioritization ||
 * 15:15 || Break ||  ||
 * 15:45 || Recap site selection criteria
 * 17:00 || Conclusions and next steps || Peter and Barbara ||
 * 17:15 || Close ||  ||

Notes:

Participant introductions and expectations: Why are you here for this meeting?

 * We are working on partnership between private sectors, I am hear to learn about value chain approach in small ruminants.
 * In IPMS we are involved in value chain program for the last six years, we are the first to promote the value chain approach, I am here to share our experience
 * We are working the pastoralist area, especially on small ruminants, we are dependent on the livestoch production, I am here to learn more about value chain.
 * I am here to contribute my experience and also to learn
 * I am hear b/c I am quite a lot involved in the lives stock fish program, so here to share some value chain
 * I am working in ICARDA, the Ethiopian government increase in feed and forage guy,
 * Came here to learn more about value chain,
 * I coordinate the national program on small ruminant, I am here to share my experience
 * We are the consumer of the livestock products, we export meet, skin and other products as well, I am here to learn and find out the research output about the value chain and small ruminants
 * I am involved in crp 3.7 program and I am here looking for partnership, crp37 is looking for partnership.
 * Coming from ISAP anything about livestock is important to us, and also to see the integrated approach and how things fit in
 * In ELFORA we are engaged in exporting small ruminants product, I am here to lean and hope this meeting will give a solution for the production of small ruminants in the long run.

Reflections and Discussion from intro to the CRP by Tadelle Dessie

 * When talk about scale up, I think scale out should involve from community to donors
 * The title itself comes in the right time where Ethiopia is much involved in value chain approach .. ATA? is very much pushing forward, there are number of value chain working in crops....it will be very interesting to involve them in this porgram
 * I like the approach of crp37 programe, one thing which needs to be amplified is, you are doing good on joint learning but we didn’t see the search priorities and partnership
 * It would be good if you consider drylands specious, specious shifting from drylands
 * It would be good if you put the pro-poor concept into the whole scenario,
 * With regards to the proposal objectives, we have to be clear, you are going to do the research, the next step should be a proposal to be financed by other development agents , we need to have good proposal ideas
 * From our experience of IPMS, we usually consider the value chain comodities, from input supply, processing and marketing, from your presentation the value chain approach seems more general
 * M & E should be clear, how do you monitor, which criteria are you using, is there a household indicator or what ..?
 * Originally we want to focus sheep meet in Ethiopia, there are other partners who wanted us to extend to goat component that is why we have open it up

Questions and comments following the VC presentation by Solomon:

 * The program has already started in early January, still generating enough information, there is a tool developed by ILRI to assess value chain assessment and feed assessment.
 * We have tools which can be applied directly, but don’t know how it is difficult to integrate the marketing
 * When we think of site selection we have to widen our scope, we don’t have to focus only on Mezi area. We have to check its sustainability too
 * With regards to value chain, in GIZ we are using different methodologies, for example, in the leather value chain, we are concentrating in export, the analysis can go in the production, apart from mapping the actors we were also looking in to macro level and policy level and many other
 * Idea of value chain analysis in Menzi, it works to the whole country....it is a good example
 * We are working on livestock market; we were seeing the reason behind why the meet exporters are not focus on high l and animals. When they are slaughtered the meet is dark
 * From research I think, the color is due to the iron type, that makes the meet dark when you keep it in the refrigerator.
 * The pro-poo nature of sheep and goat production...very high demand increasing for sheep and goat meet, due to the exporters

Group discussion on the VCD in Ethiopia

 * What are the benefits to be obtained from developing functional and sustainable sheep and goat VC's in Ethiopia? **
 * Suitable agro=ecology/farming sysems
 * High and increasing local and international demand for sheep meat
 * increasing population
 * increasing income
 * increasing price of sheep
 * Small ruminants production is a pro-poor
 * women and disadvantaged
 * need lo investment
 * low fed need
 * wide adaption
 * short reproduction cycle
 * household nutrition
 * Long experience in export market
 * Availability of abattorrs and high investment (domestic foreign)
 * Developed taste for Ethiopia sheep meat
 * Better developed SS chain for sheep (not starting from scratch)
 * Availability of different breeds
 * Change in attitude and increasing consumption towards goat meat in by the highlanders
 * Government support and policies to increase sheep and goat SS and export
 * Support by NGos
 * Well developed leather industry and possibility integrate with meat industry
 * Strategic location of Ethiopia
 * A room for better value addition and employment
 * An important source of export earning
 * Strong R & D capacities in this area


 * What are the most important challenges to address in developing functional & sustainable sheep and goat VC's in Ethiopia?**
 * Lack of quality feed and other inputs
 * Diverse market channels -
 * Different demands for product
 * Changing product preferences (export, domestic
 * Kiel/lamb mortality
 * Transport/communication /infrastructure - but improving
 * Equity of benefit distributions
 * will the really poor really benefit
 * poorest at poor - do not often consume ASF
 * Spreading VC benefits across VC
 * Middle men issue
 * Sorting out illegal practices among brokers
 * Improving linkages among value chain actors
 * market information
 * Supply/nomad gap - quality
 * Tractability
 * Lack of improved breeds exotic vs local breed improvement
 * understanding GxE interactions
 * Cross-border trade
 * good for producers
 * discourage by formal VC actors
 * Scavenging system -> managed system
 * thinking about skin quality
 * High disease prevalence
 * focus on diseases input to export market
 * neglect od diseases of smallholder SR
 * Meat quality
 * highland sheep meat has local premium
 * lowland meat favoured by exporters
 * need to think of market stratification
 * Credit issues, weak rural finance institutions
 * Drought / climate change


 * What should be the main components of our research and development approach in developing functional and sustainable sheep and goat VC's in Ethiopia?**
 * Method and institutional arrangements at each component of the VC
 * Participatory including private sectors
 * Impact oriented (R &D)
 * M& E
 * Synergy
 * Targeting global public goods
 * Ensure sustainability
 * Pro-poor
 * Addressing cross cutting issues(e.g gender, ?)
 * Partnership ,
 * level of partners
 * link to financial mechanisms
 * Demand driven
 * Openess, transparency, communicating
 * Participatory
 * All relevant actors at relevant stages of the VC
 * planning(joint) at all stages
 * technology generates and uses
 * decision making
 * Impact oriented
 * developmental/ Research
 * Synergy
 * gov't strategic plan
 * on going activities and different actors

Group 1: Skills and capacities Who has it (institutions)?
 * Partnerships: **** What skills and capacities are need to implement this program ? **
 * Breeders
 * Health
 * Nutrition
 * Processing and safety
 * Marketing
 * Value chain analyst
 * Participatory M & E
 * Community mobilization
 * ICARDA/ILRI, NARS + HLI
 * MoA, HLI
 * NARS, MOA
 * AAU,-FSP, MOA-EMDTI private sectors
 * MoA-EMDTI, MOT NARs
 * SNV
 * MoA, NARs
 * MoA, Local administration

Group 2: skills/capacity
 * Translate resource -> dev't
 * Research and extension -> committee strengthen
 * Capacity building for staff
 * Business devt expertise
 * Communication with partners
 * Media
 * Input supply
 * Traders associations
 * Feed industry producers
 * Private association
 * Farmers organization cooperatives

Partners (institutions)
 * MoA, BoA, private sector
 * NGO's
 * Pico
 * Professional associations
 * MoA, FTC's farmers, PTC's pastoralists
 * NVI, CAHW

Group 3: Skills / Expertise needed Processing Production
 * Marketing skills needed
 * Actors
 * Abattoirs
 * Tanneries
 * Meat, skins processing skill
 * Abattoirs
 * Tanneries
 * Market oriented production skills
 * Breeding
 * Feeding
 * Health care
 * Housing etc

**Site Selection - 'Killer' Criteria emerging from the small group discussions:**

 * Likelihood of success
 * Market potential
 * Well known supply areas
 * Proximity to Addis
 * Number of animals per hh
 * Importance of sheep to hh livelihoods


 * Site selection - results of group deliberations on potential locations: **

Three groups: 1 goat group 2 x sheep groups

From what you have heard about site selection criteria, suggest 4 woredas to add to the site selection shortlist: 2 x rural – rural 2 x rural – urban

For each provide some justification for what you have come up with.


 * Groups on sheep**

Amhara - Menz Ger
 * Reasons
 * high density
 * poverty level
 * Good market access
 * strong research support
 * livelihood depends on sheep
 * breed preferred by consumers

Borena - Near Yabellow
 * Reasons
 * Major source of export
 * surplus production
 * represents semi-arid, Pastoral-ism
 * supply chain well established
 * expertise on pastoral dev't
 * rural trade export

Horro Gudru - west Oromia
 * Reasons
 * high sheep density
 * large population
 * proximity to market
 * important breed
 * Rural - urban
 * Rural - rural

AFAR
 * Reasons
 * livelihood of success??
 * important source of export aimed
 * proximity to abattoirs
 * surplus production

Rural - Urban
 * Tigray (East zone)
 * Suitable map
 * Food insecure
 * Collaboration with lives
 * South (Gurage region|)
 * High population
 * suitable
 * No earlier iteration

Rural - Rural
 * Amhara (North)
 * Suitable
 * High population
 * known breed
 * Resource center
 * Ongoing R4D
 * Private sector
 * Oromia ( Arisi)
 * Suitable map
 * High population
 * known population
 * Resource center
 * South (Gamo Gofa)
 * Huge population
 * little/ no work so far
 * Lives woreda
 * Private, safety net

Rural - Rural
 * Group on goats**
 * Tenkua Abergele (Tigray /Amahara)
 * Supplies to Mekel and the new export abattoirs (Abergele)
 * Has it own breed abergele
 * Asaita (Afar)
 * High got population
 * Contribution of goat to hh livelihood
 * High demand for Afar goat in the middle east
 * Dilo (Borena) / Raitu (Bale), Both are Oromia
 * High population
 * Supplies to export abattoris
 * Contribution to livelihood
 * Konso (SNNPR)
 * High goat population
 * Supplies to export abattoirs in Modjo and Bishofitu
 * Feed the yabello market
 * Raitu
 * High population
 * neighbor to somali region
 * Untapped resources because of distance and rough road network

Rural - Urban
 * Negele Borena (Liben woreda, Oromiya)
 * High population
 * Already developed market linkage with abattoirs
 * Neighboring Somalia region to collect animals
 * Shinille (Somali/ Dire Dawa)
 * Supplies to D/Dawa and Mieso markets
 * Major supplier to export abattoris
 * Supplies white Somali breeds
 * High population

Justification
 * High goat population
 * Contribution of goats to livelihood
 * Already developed functional market engagement
 * Regional and agro - ecologiecal representation
 * Road network
 * Aligned to the GIS findings
 * Breed diversity
 * Livelihood for success

=Site Selection - some general reflections on what emerged=


 * goats mainly in pastoral areas [lowland?]
 * sheep mainly in highlands
 * some existing sites (sheep), some new
 * rural-rural and rural-urban, does not really work (could try domestic versus expert). or even better 'ease of market access'. Needs further x-checking

=**Next Steps**=
 * Regional consultation - late July
 * might involve small delegation visiting regions to already do some woreda selection
 * Moving to implementation
 * Resource mobilization
 * Plot putative sites on existing maps
 * pull out data relevant to sites
 * need to think through politics issues
 * issue of working in conflict /drought zones
 * regional representation
 * site selection decisions by September