Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development. USAID Financed Agriculture Growth Program-Livestock Market Development Project (AGP-LMD)

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1 USAID Financed Agriculture Growth Program-Livestock Market Development Project (AGP-LMD)

2 USAID-Ethiopia s Agricultural Growth Program- (AGP-LMD) Project is a five-year project implemented as part of the U.S. Government s Feed the Future (FTF) Initiative. The implementer of the Project is CNFA with 13 local and international partners. The project started on Sep The location of the office is Palm building, CMC road in front of Civil Service College 3 rd and 4 th floor.

3 It operates in the four regions of the country; Amhara, Oromia, SNNPR and Tigray It is working on AGP Woredas Locally it works with four Implementing partners: with ORDA in Amhara with Hunde in Oromia with Self Help Africa in SNNPR with Rest in Tigray

4 The AGP-LMD project addresses USAID's Strategic Objective of improving smallholder incomes and nutritional status through the achievement of three key USAID intermediate results. IR1: Increase productivity and competitiveness of selected livestock value chains. IR2: Improve the enabling environment for livestock value chains. IR3: Improve the quality and diversity of household diet through intake of livestock products.

5 Integrated into these components are the cross-cutting objectives of engaging people living with HIV/AIDS, gender equity, promotion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions, environmental mitigation, and natural resource management. AGP-LMD is working on Dairy and Meat and Live animal middle Value chains.

6 Key themes for driving the AGP-LMD Project approach include: Market development; Increased productivity and efficiency throughout the livestock value chain; Private sector focus and investment; Smallholder impact; Gender Equity Environmental conservation ICT

7 AGP-LMD approach for gender equity is based on the findings of gender analysis during inception period. The findings were women are mostly engaged in production and taking care of animals. They have limited participation in livestock marketing. Limited access, control and benefits of resources. To Bring Gender Equity LMD Designed: A. Mainstreaming gender in all value chain activities; B. Women s empowerment.

8 Why it is important to mainstream gender and work on women empowerment for AGP-LMD Project?

9 Livestock plays a critical role in farming systems, nutrition and as a ladder for asset accumulation. Both men and women are involved in livestock sector in different ways. The constraints facing both are different based on their roles. Women play significant role in downstream livestock V/C including feeding, watering, cleaning and milking cows. Men play mostly in upstream V/C such as marketing (buying and selling)

10 Men s heavy involvement in the upstream v/c has given them an advantage to control and access sales revenues. While women s role being mostly on the downstream v/c undermines their ability to spend more resources for improved productivity.

11 A focus on gender equity can increase the productivity of agriculture and livestock systems, and improve food security and nutrition. Improving smallholders income and nutritional status is the project objective.

12 What are the activities of AGP-LMD to bring Gender Equity : Give Gender mainstreaming training to V/C Managers, other staff, IPs and to beneficiaries to make them aware on gender issues. Make sure in all LMD activities at least 30% women representation. To postponed the training, if the representation of women is less than 30%;

13 Conduct trainings closer to participants wereda taking into consideration the mobility problem of women; Give child care service during the training; Opening up opportunities for women to work on what are traditionally male s;

14 Nejat Animal Health Provider Castrating a bull, Western Azernet, Lera, SNNPR

15 Shetaye treating the blood urinating cow at Gedeb, SNNPR

16 Demekech Treating the animal by spraying

17 Female Artificial Insemination trainee during practice

18 Demekech Treating the Horse at Gedeb, SNNPR

19 Identify and promote women friendly technologies in the livestock V/C; Link value chain actors to market through provision of Business to Business meetings; Promote role modeling of women in livestock V/C business;

20 Make extra effort to link women entrepreneurs to finance, and support them in collateral; Whenever possible give training to both husband and wives; Build their capacity in the area of business management, gender awareness and leadership including on nutrition and HIV/AIDS.

21 Women entrepreneurs trained in business management and leadership in 5 Modules: 2013/ /15 Total Amhara Oromia SNNPR Tigray Total Total 212 women capacitated in business management and leadership training as role models from about 57 AGP Woredas and 63 more from food insufficient area.

22 Outcome of the women entrepruners training Applied new technology, such as artificial insemination services and mobile telephones; New business management practices, such as record keeping, and calculating their profit and loss; Prepared business plans and then used them to request land, or loans; Implemented improved livestock management practices that have improved their income; increased their knowledge about nutrition and they have started diversifying their family nutrition intake

23 Outcome of the women entrepruners training Some reported that they have started or increased their effort to grow vegetables in their backyard; Many of the women reported starting to use milk for their family consumption; Changed their leadership style; some reported that they have started to treat their daughters and sons equally and have become assertive in their relationship with their husband, regarding household decision making

24 LMD Strength No compromise on female representation; Give training to husband wives together; Bring the training closer to participants; Give child care service during training;

25 Coach and support women entrepreneurs; Promote role modeling of women; Provide grant on competitive bases and specific to women with less matching fund; Capacitate women Entrepreneurs in Business and Leadership skill including in non traditional areas for women eg CAHWs.

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27 LMD Strength Availability of experience sharing program within and outside the country; Promotion of market linkage by conducting B to B to in every regions and create networking among business.

28 Give BDS for women Entrepreneurs; Facilitate credit facility for Women Entrepreneurs; Promote women leadership in cooperatives and CIGs by capacitating women members and cooperative leaderships;

29 Challenges Patriarchy culture; Religious practice; Lack of women appropriate livestock market infrastructure; Lack of safety for women to travel with animals long distance; Government policy change re-cahws.

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