Enabling Innovation

Hierarchy of activities/objectives

Indicators

Assumptions

Indicators for assumptions

Goal

Poverty, hunger and environmental degradation in developing countries are reduced through sustainable livestock production

 

·  Aggregate and specific poverty measures in target regions and systems improved

 

 

 

Intermediate goal

·  Assets of resource-poor livestock keepers are secured

·  Productivity of poor livestock keepers are sustainably improved 

 

 

·  Market opportunities for the poor are enhanced

 

·  Vulnerability and risks of poor livestock keepers reduced

 

·  Livestock productivity and nutrition, health and incomes of poor farmers in target systems improved

·  More efficient and sustainable use of land, water and labour for livestock production

·  Market participation and success of poor farmers enhanced

·  Safe, high quality and competitively priced livestock products for consumers

 

 

Purpose

Improved innovation and knowledge systems through development and testing of approaches and partnerships that enable the identification of agreed, prioritized researchable constraints affecting livestock-dependent poor people, that ensure the implementation of appropriate research, and that ensure the use of media and pathways allowing ILRI and its partners to deliver knowledge to enable pro-poor outcomes

 

 

·  Participatory methodologies for developing innovation systems and effective partnerships

·  Case studies for target technologies and policies

Assumptions for achievement of intermediate goal

·  Provision of candidate improved technologies and implementation of policies is sustained after initial scaling-out effort

·  Demand for these options at the farm and policy-maker level is sustained after initial introduction

·  Candidate technologies and policies generate the expected benefits and impacts

·  NARS and other stakeholders adopt improved innovation-systems approaches

 

 

 

·  Utilisation rates

 

 

 

·  Participatory evaluation confirms suitability of options

 

·  Impact monitoring and assessment

 

 

·  Partnerships established

Outputs

·  Past livestock innovation successes and failures identified and lessons drawn

·  Toolbox of participatory methodologies for livestock innovation systems developed

·  Partnership-building methodologies for livestock innovation systems made available

·  Lessons from innovation approaches used in on-going ILRI research projects identified

·  Benefits and viability of Farmer Field School approach for livestock innovations evaluated, and scaling-out strategy formulated for Kenya

·  Pilot “field laboratories” for innovation system research established at sites in Ethiopia

·  East Coast fever immunization available commercially across eastern Africa

 

 

·  NARS capacity to evaluate trypanocide resistance hotspots established in several West African countries

·  Strategies to support improved management of trypanocide resistance tested, adapted, and adopted in study areas in West Africa, and strategy for scaling out formulated

·  Policy options to support scaling out of improved management of trypanocide resistance in West Africa identified through participatory effort with key stakeholders

·  Suitability of ICIPE tsetse repellent technologies evaluated through farmer-managed trials

·  Strategy for commercialising the ICIPE tsetse repellent technology formulated

·  Improved partnership mechanisms developed and adopted for livestock research and development networks under ASARECA

·  Micro-finance available to farmers in the Ghibe Valley to support livestock health strategies

 

·  Improved crop-livestock options in study areas in West Africa identified

·  Policy strategies to support best-bet crop-livestock options in West Africa

·  Capacity of ILRI staff to support an innovation systems-based approach

·  Improved small livestock innovation systems in Asia

·  Improved helminth control options for small ruminants in Asia and supporting policies

·  GEF project design for conservation of animal genetic resources in Asia developed based on broad consultation and using participatory approaches

 

Indicators

·  Review synthesis publication available by 2005

·  Methodologies described in toolbox publications, by 2006

·  Participatory partnership analysis techniques documented, by 2006

·  Internal review report and individual project reports, by 2005

·  Project reports, by 2004

 

 

·  Project reports, by 2004

 

·  Public-private partnership established to promote commercialisation by 2004; Commercial sales of immunization package in East Africa, by 2006

·  Project reports and publications documenting evaluation protocols and their application in suspected hotspots, by 2004

·  Numbers of people trained, monitoring of tsetse and trypanocide control practices in study sites, as documented in project reports and publications, by 2005

·  Policy workshop minutes and other project reports, by 2005

 

 

·  Project reports and publications, by 2005

 

·  Business plan prepared, by 2005

 

·  New network structure adopted as part of the ASARECA strategy development, by 2005

 

·  Institutional arrangements for provision of micro-finance in Ghibe Valley site established, by 2004

·  Project reports and publications, by 2006

 

·  Project reports and publications, by 2006

 

·  Number of ILRI staff trained in participatory monitoring and evaluation, by 2005

·  Project reports and publications, by 2006

 

·  Project reports and publications, by 2004

 

·  Project documents, by 2005

 

 

Assumptions for achievement of purpose

·  Candidate improved technologies and policies are appropriate for evaluation and dissemination

·  Demand exists for these options at the farm and policy-maker level

·  NARS and other stakeholders are interested in and have the resources needed to participate in improving innovation systems

 

 

Indicators for assumptions

·  Candidate improved technologies and policies identified and evaluated

 

·  Participatory evaluation confirms suitability of options

·  Partnerships established

 

Activities

·  Review past livestock innovation successes and failures to identify “lessons learned”, key factors related to process and methods

·  Review current ILRI research activities and the innovation approach being used or anticipated to identify opportunities for better strategies

·  Develop toolboxes of methodologies for participatory innovation systems and partnership analysis (cross-cutting)

·  Test and evaluate Farmer Field School approach for livestock innovations, in Kenya

·  Promote public-private partnership for the regional commercialisation of East Coast fever immunization in eastern Africa

·  Evaluate the technical and economic suitability of ICIPE tsetse repellent technologies for pastoral systems in Kenya

 

·  Develop and evaluate options for improved management of trypanocide resistance at farm, market, and policy levels, in West Africa

·  Continue to support coordination of livestock research and development networks under ASARECA and CORAF

·  Develop community-based mechanisms to support farmer livestock health strategies after the ILRI intervention in Ghibe Valley

·  Evaluate best-bet crop-livestock options for West Africa

 

·  Develop policy strategies to support best-bet crop-livestock options in West Africa

·  Train ILRI staff in participatory monitoring and evaluation

·  Develop and evaluate helminth control options for small ruminants in Asia and supporting policies through development of a “small livestock” innovation systems

·  Apply innovation systems approach to design GEF project on conservation of animal genetic resources in Asia

Milestones

·  Review of past innovations completed in 2004

 

·  Internal review of on-going ILRI research completed in 2004

 

·  Field laboratory sites for innovation research established in Ethiopia in 2004

·  Toolbox publications produced 2004-2006

·  Preliminary evaluation completed in 2004, and strategy for out-scaling formulated

·  Public-private partnership established in 2004

·  Commercial distribution of East Coast fever immunisation initiated by 2005

·  Best-bet repellent-based control strategies evaluated in researcher-managed trials by 2004, and in farmer-managed trials by 2005

·  If deemed suitable, business plan for commercialisation prepared by 2006

·  Policy study in Mali completed in 2004

·  Trials of best-bet farmer and market strategies completed by 2005

·  Priority-setting exercise for AARNET completed in 2004

 

·  Micro-finance services introduced in the Ghibe Valley site, by 2004

 

·  Best-bet crop-livestock options tested and adopted in study sites in West Africa, and strategy for scaling out formulated, by 2006

·  Policy options formulated, by 2006

 

·  Training program initiated in 2004

 

·  Improved options and policies developed and evaluated in study sites in Southeast Asia, and strategies for scaling out, by 2004

 

·  GEF project species, sites and partners identified by 2005

 

 

Preconditions for implementation of activities

·  ILRI and partners develop critical capacity to support research on livestock innovation systems

·  Innovation systems paradigm becomes accepted by ILRI management, scientists, and partners

 

 

 

 

Indicators

 

·  Changes in expertise among staff at ILRI and partner institutions

 

·  Funding support to Theme activities, and numbers of partnerships established