Presented by Danilo Pezo (ILRI) at the Livestock and Fish Value Chain Component Planning Meeting, Nairobi Kenya, 6-7 December 2012

1. Uganda Smallholder Pigs Value Chain
Component Situation Report 2012
Danilo Pezo
Livestock and Fish Value Chain
Component Planning Meeting, Nairobi
Kenya, 6-7 December 2012

2. Progress done
• Stakeholders Consultation
Meeting held in Kampala in
June 2011 (32 participants)
• ILRI-Uganda Office
established at
Bioversity/CIP compound
(March 2012).
• Hosting agreement with
Bioversity signed (June
2012)
• Project Agreement with

3. Progress done
• Stakeholders Consultation
Meeting held in Kampala in
June 2011 (32 participants)
• ILRI-Uganda Office
established at
Bioversity/CIP compound
(March 2012).
• Hosting agreement with
Bioversity signed (June
2012)
• Project Agreement with

4. Progress done (continues)
• Recruitment of Staff:
• Project Coordinator (mid-Feb.
2012)
• Agricultural Economist (late
July 2012)
• Post doctoral Animal Health
(September 2012)
• Administrative Assistant and
Driver (October 2012)
• Consultants (Situation
Analysis –June 2012;
Outcome Mapping – October
2012)

5. Progress done (continues)
 Links with other ILRI projects
established (e.g. FF-SF; LDIP)
 Identification of partners representing
national and local
governments, NGOs, universities, an
d private sector
 SPVCD Project and other ILRI
activities presented to partners, and
other CGIAR centers operating in
Uganda.
 Outcome mapping and site selection
workshop conducted (October 2012)
 Report on targeting pig value chains
systems in Uganda at district/sub-
county level (GIS work)

6. Progress done (Value Chain
Assessment)
 Sites selected at district level by national
partners, based on GIS information and
soft criteria provided by the project.
 Sub-counties/districts selected by project
staff using GIS information
 Villages selected by local partners
according to representativeness of value
chain types (U – U; R – U; and R – R)
 Tools for Rapid Appraisal of VC (producers
& key informants) developed and applied
using other projects experiences as a
basis. Tools for other actors need to be
developed/adapted
 FGD facilitators selected and trained.
 Data collection running in15 villages in

7. Plans for 2013
• Installation of Steering Committee
• Recruitment of Research
Assistants (graduate students
doing research under the project in
some cases?)
• Value Chain Assessment
 To complete the VC assessment in
selected sites (farmers & key
informants in Kamuli and Mukono;
other VC actors in all three districts);
 To conduct a VC assessment in Gulu
(a site not selected by partners, but
relevant for ILRI’s Pig VC research
activities)

8. Plans for 2013 (continue)
• Ex ante evaluation of best-bet
interventions, and testing of the most
promising in all three districts
• Training of partners (extension staff &
farmers) on best-bet interventions
tested, as well as VC assessment
methodologies
• Preparation and dissemination of
synthesis materials on lessons learnt and
impacts

9. Plans for 2013 (continue)
• Negotiate with the donor project’s non-cost
extension
• Resource mobilization
 Project Proposal/Concept Note for Up- and
Out Scale the SPVCD project lessons learnt
 Other proposals to conduct deeper studies for
different SPVCD components
• Preparation and conduction of Mid- and Final-
Term evaluations
• Writing and submission of Final Report to the
donor

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