Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania aims to transform smallholder dairy value chains through multi-stakeholder platforms at different levels. At the village level, platforms build on farmers' groups and cooperatives to link producers and market actors. At the district and regional levels, innovation platforms integrate research, innovation, and extension with business actions. At the national level, the Dairy Development Forum plays a strategic role in policy dialogue. The goal is to address challenges through these multi-stakeholder processes, improve productivity and incomes, and catalyze widespread innovation in the dairy sector in Tanzania.

1. Maziwa Zaidi (More Milk) in Tanzania
Multi-stakeholder architecture to transform smallholder
dairy value chains in Tanzania
Amos Omore and Edgar Twine (ILRI)
Key messages
• Transforming dairy value chains requires efforts of a
range of stakeholders
• Hubs and “Innovation platforms” are effective
multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) to bring
together these stakeholders to solve common
problems.
• Multi-stakeholder processes can be organised at
village level with links to farmer groups and local
market actors; at district and regional levels, to
integrate research, innovation and extension
interventions, alongside business actions; and, at
national level, where the Dairy Development
Forum plays a strategic role in national policy
dialogue to catalyze widespread innovation
Opportunities to invest and scale
• Public investments for dairy sector R&D to include
effective linkages of MSPs to existing public extension
system
• MSPs provide opportunity for resource-poor cattle-owning
households who sell small quantities of milk in isolated
areas to become more commercial through use of more
inputs and services towards higher productivity and
greater participation in governance of the value chain
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Key results
A hierarchy of MSPs at different levels can improve
policymaking and planning towards higher
productivity and household income. They can be
organized at various levels:
• At village level, they build on farmers’ groups,
cooperatives and dairy market hubs. They link
market actors, connect producers with
intermediary and final customers, consequently
increasing income at the household level
• At district and regional levels, innovation
platforms integrate research, innovation and
extension interventions alongside business
actions. They can contribute strongly to
formulating and implementing district dairy
development plans
• At national level, the Dairy Development Forum
has a strategic role in advocating and formulating
coherent policies and convergence of initiatives
and catalyze widespread innovation
Objectives and approach
• To define the challenges facing value chain actors
that need to be addressed
• Document lessons from experiences in working
with MSPs at various levels and at each node of
the value chain to address some of the challenges
• To define a suitable hierarchy of MSPs to improve
policymaking and planning
Maziwa Zaidi thanks all donors and organizations which globally support the work of ILRI and its partners through
their contributions to the CGIAR system. This document is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution
4.0 International Licence. April 2017
Fig 1. Challenges facing dairy value chain actors in Tanzania
Fig 2. How a dairy market hub provides inputs and services
without collective bulking and marketing