Overview+of+existing+Maziwa+Zaidi+Projects

· The projects are under two CRPs: L&F and A4NH. We are at the ‘developing tools’ and ‘forming partnerships’ stage. EADD2 will be for scaling out. · Focus is on 3 main areas of outputs: - tools development, - best bets interventions and - scaling out
 * Outcome: Stakeholders are aware and actively promote pro-poor and gender-sensitive strategies that improve productivity, profitability and ASF consumption.
 * // Funded projects:  // ** MoreMilkiT, MilkIT, SFFF, CGP, Cow Killer
 * // Proposal submitted:  // ** MoreMilkiT 2, EADD2, AgriTT- genetics, SPIA (waiting), CultiAf (waiting)

The criteria for village selection was based on proximity to towns (market), VC development, producers already selling milk to villages with very limited opportunities to sell milk.
 * Pilot villages ** :
 * Contributors to Tanzania Dairy value chain: **

// ILRI staff:  // · Amos, Isabelle and James; · Silvia, Rosel and Delia (food safety), · Brigitte, Ben and Fred and Alan (feed), · Silvia and Alice (animal health), · Michael (impact pathway), · Julie, Okeyo and James (breeding); · Alessandra (gender); · Salim (consultant), · Edgar; New staff for EADD // Nationally and development partners:  // • SUA (Irish Aid Project Coordinator), • Heifer (Tanzania, FAIDA MaLi, SNV(MoreMilkiT piloting), • TALIRI & SUA –Tanga (MilkIT),  • Tanzania Dairy Board (MoreMilkiT),  • EADD2 partnerships,  • MLDF, SNV, LoL, Private sector (partners in DDF), • Irish Researchers at Teagasc, UCD (students, still exploring options), • BfR-Germany; RVC (SFFF2), <span style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 31.5pt .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">• NUPI - Norway, <span style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l11 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list 31.5pt .5in; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">• Students (4 from Emory on human health and nutrition, mostly self-sponsored, others from SUA, Bonn, Nairobi, Queensland). - The lesson learnt on partner involvement was the need to engage local NGOs also, that get things running on the ground. - Held a meeting to get together all the people involved and decide on priority interventions at the systems level. With the baseline data, need now to decide which interventions and what impact they will have, priorities within and across given domains. ||
 * ** Question  ** || **  Answer  ** ||
 * How do we show the progress in the milestones we have had every year so that people can see where they fit and where their work fits? || * Bony needs to be contacted because there might be activities and interests in common

Outputs: DMHs, governance and efficiency of integrating small-scale VCs…policy and how to leverage it to support what we do  - Irish Aid was also very interested in sustainability of intervention etc…at ILRI we have nobody with a mandate on this and we need to highlight the weakness. - The evidence of the hubs not working always at best…how can we strengthen them, identify change makers who can be input suppliers etc. and we can work on their capacity development. - Need to get more systematic about identifying best bets - Piloting of adapted hubs to be main focus in 2013-2016 - Need not to establish more chilling plants…they are there and not in use. Some chilling plants are far away from farmers. We think we will have good traction on inputs and services provided through milk traders and check-off systems and around cattle traders: at market days a lot of other activities take place and we want to exploit this. - Baseline results are available: most findings reaffirm VCA findings - Commercialization will mostly be about feeds and less on other constraints! - DDF continues to catalyze policy dialogue - Could we have another group focusing on feeds at national level? - A student from Bonn University is looking at effectiveness of innovation platforms - SNV provided a week by week work-plan of their activities on the ground - Need to establish which project will contribute to which milestone and when and with what activities || - DDF identified systemic bottlenecks: genetics, feeds, filling capacity gaps particularly for agribusiness. Groups leading these thematic areas and then maybe smaller groups such as the gender group...   - The status of hubs: 30 hubs have been set up in 8 districts. Now it’s farmers groups, linkages with traders and service providers. We might provide transport arrangements to the chilling plants. Heifer is good with creating groups. Faida works in parallel to provide links with service providers. || - We selected villages with a high concentration of cattle keeping…so there will be potential for dairy work  || // Suggestion:  // it might be interesting to have one document showing each hub in each village and their focus. And also their goal so that we can better shape our intervention // Feedback:  // Needs assessment is the basis to develop the interventions - Most farmers seemed to get organized around water, cattle trading, - Sustainability is a long term issue and we can’t worry about it now. - Anyway we need a strategy now! We can involve NGOs and they might be experienced in sustainable group creation but our ‘research’ component is important - The first task for Faida Mali is to help us develop business plans for each village - In food safety we favored 2 tracks: one opportunistic e.g. disease cards, one based on evidence gathering and systematic review of gray literature; drawing information from VCs; questionnaire survey etc…we now synthetize that and systematically identify the priorities. FAO food safety group has been looking at lots of countries and have gone through a process to identify priorities and they now want to see if the approach can be used in developing countries.
 * ** Question  ** || **  Answer  ** ||
 * How do we deal with systemic shortcomings for animal health services? E.g. incompetence by local vets….so it is not about connecting farmers and vets only…it’s a much bigger issue of an ever larger approach || * We are limiting our expectations. If we can aggregate a demand for services and provide a choice of supply and some competition, making sure farmers can access these services. We did an MLE framework with 2 surveys in a year to generate learning on whether interventions are working or not.
 * TZ feed manufacturer association is interested in collaborating with us. We need to make a formal link with them. || * We need to better discuss whom to invite to DDF meetings
 * What keeps the hubs together? || · Groups might organize on different issues….we pursue any opportunity based on needs and interest
 * Hub approach **