Presented by Samwel Mbugua and Hikuepi Katjiuongua at the Workshop on ICARDA-ILRI Training on Tools for Benchmarking Sheep and Goat Value Chains in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, 6-9 November 2013

1. Experience with value chain benchmarking
tools
Samwel Mbugua and Hikuepi Katjiuongua
ICARDA-ILRI Training on Tools for Benchmarking Sheep and Goat
Value Chains in Ethiopia,
Addis Ababa, 6-9 November 2013

2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1. VC tools development team
2. Broad VC Research questions and components
3. Benchmarking tools, process and actors
4. Brief over view of BM tools and experiences – Uganda
and Botswana
5. Way forward

3. COMPONENT LEADS INVOLVED IN THE VC TOOLS
DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Value chain development
Animal health
Genetics
Feeds
Targeting
Gender and learning

4. BROAD VC RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND
COMPONENTS
1. VC performance
How can the performance of livestock and fish (L&F)
value chains (VC) be improved and how well are the L&F
VCs performing using different performance dimensions
metrics?
2. VC Innovation & upgrading
How can L&F value chains be upgraded to improve the
level and conditions of participation of value chain
actors?

5. 3. Technology adoption in value chains
What types of technologies can improve the
performance of L&F value chain VC actors and under
what conditions?
4. VC governance and coordination
What kind of governance & coordination mechanisms
can improve the functioning and performance of the VC
and the livelihoods VC actors and under what
conditions?

6. 5. Risk exposure and management in VCs
What can go wrong? How can risk exposure in the L&F
VCs be reduced and risk management be improved?
How are different types of risks distributed among VC
participants and along the VC?
6. Policy and institutional environment
What type of interventions at the policy and institutional
level increase the performance of and benefits from
target value chains and under what conditions?
PS: The questions are to be disaggregated by gender in the tools to factor
in specific gender issues

7. Conceptual link for LV CRP and A4HN causal pathway
Hidden hunger
THE
IMPACTS
Food insecurity
Lost income
Poverty
Threatened market
access
Disease
Unsafe food
CRP A4NH
Lost opportunities for smallholders in animal-source-food
markets
THE CORE PROBLEM
THE
CAUSES
Low
productivity
Limited
access to
inputs
Limited value
addition
Inappropriate
scale &
technologies
INPUTS & SERVICES
High wastage &
spoilage
Lack of market
information
PRODUCTION
Health risks in
food
Dysfunctional
pricing &
markets
PROCESSING
CRP L&F
Inappropriate foodsafety management &
regulations
MARKETING CONSUMPTION

8. Purpose of the tools: Situation analysis, Rapid value
chain assessment, and in depth VC
analysis/benchmarking.
1. Situational analysis - assess the conditions within
which the target value chains in the selected
countries operate.
2. Rapid value chain assessment – get overview of VC
(mapping/ actors), identify broad opportunities and
constraint, and defining broad intervention areas.

9. 3. In-depth value chain analysis/benchmarking
Benchmarking: Baseline for impact assessment at all
actor levels and coordination in the VC
This includes VC performance (both for pilot and largescale development projects-> sample size may differ
across different projects)

10. BENCHMARKING TOOLS, PROCESS AND ACTORS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Inputs and service
Producers
Processors
Traders
-The process should be coordinated by the VC coordinator, project
PI and partners.
- The process should be done before and after the intervention.
-The audience for the data output should M&E team, targeting
theme, VC team, VC stakeholders.

11. EXPERIENCE WITH BENCHMARKING TOOLS SO FAR…
1. UGANDA PIG VC – Have used the tools and are this
week having the feedback training workshop with
partners.
2. BOTSWANA LIVESTOCK VC - Have done Producer
Benchmarking, sample size 600 took 2 months.
Currently cleaning data...

12. MORE ON BOTSWANA BM EXPERIENCE
1. Duration of data collection – took 2 hrs (excl. farmer
mobilization period).
2. No. of enumerators used – 15 initially then 10 during
follow up to attain set sample size.
3. How long household questionnaire took to complete –
2 hours
4. No. of qnnr’s per day – target was 3-4 per day, some
days had challenge of farmers being away from
households in the cattle posts which are far.
5. Data cleaning experience – Some errors have noted in
the collected data. Need to also develop a good
database system. Some data upon merging had to be
discarded as they were incomplete.
6. Total households surveyed – 600.

13. WAY FORWARD
With the aim of developing standardized VC
assessment tools the following is needed;
-Collect good quality data.
- Document of our experiences in terms of tools
adoption and use.
- Share the lessons from various VC activities and
country programs to assess with standardization
while enhancing our process

14. THANK YOU
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure
future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity
of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish
more available and affordable across the developing world.