Presented by Barbara Wieland, ILRI, at the HEARD Inception Workshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 29 March 2019

1. Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural
Development (HEARD)
Barbara Wieland, Team Leader
HEARD Inception Workshop, ILRI, Addis Ababa, 29 March 2019

2. Overall objectives HEARD
Increase sustainable livestock productivity and improve the marketing of
livestock products
1. Strengthen the quality of public and private veterinary services and
delivery through creation of an enabled and rationalized environment
2. Improving the technical competences (knowledge, skills and attitudes) and
incentives for veterinary service providers to deliver better and
rationalized services
3. Improving the food safety of primary products of animal origin and better
control of zoonotic diseases achieved

3. Access to animal health services
• Poor access overall, regional variations
• Example: access to private veterinarians for only 4.68% of HH
• Spending: regional variation (0 to 3500 Birr/year)
• Satisfaction reasonable: accessibility, quality, timeliness,
affordability
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
P AP P AP P AP P AP P AP
Afar Oromia Somali SNNP Total
CAHW LEA Trad. healer
Vet drug store Private vet Official vet
Proportionofhouseholds

4. Structure of Component 2
2.1. Veterinary Service delivery: Pilot the veterinary service
rationalization roadmap
2.2. Veterinary service capacity: Training materials and
implement innovative delivery methods for skill development
in veterinary professionals, para-professionals and livestock
producers
2.3. Communication across sectors: resources for animal
health knowledge, best practices and research findings,
including measures to mitigate against the impact of climate
change

5. Principles for all activities
• Consultative processes to ensure inclusiveness
• Demand driven interventions
• Gender sensitive activities
• Evidence based approaches
• Focus on cost-effectiveness and sustainability
(financial and institutional)
• Align with regional grants

6. Pilot vet service privatization
• Consultative meetings to establish guidelines for working
relationships between public and private animal health
service providers
• Identify and map 2 traditional livestock movement corridors
for inclusion in pilots
• Pilot novel models of service delivery involving public and
private sector
• Train private sector members in business skills and
entrepreneurship
• Study on guarantee scheme for private sector involved in
veterinary service delivery

7. Veterinary capacity development
Technical competences (knowledge, skills, attitude and
behaviour) of veterinary service providers improved to deliver
better and rationalised services
• Train technicians in Kaliti lab (VDFACA) in identifying
mycotoxins and use of all equipment
• Needs assessment to identify skill gaps in veterinary
professionals & para professionals and inspectors
• Develop structure of Continued Professional Development
Program (CPD)
• Train key trainers in adult training skills (training of trainers)
• Identify institutions and SMS for CPD program and develop
CPD modules/manuals (incl. e-based)
• Support establishment of CPD centre and conduct trainings

8. Veterinary capacity development (cont.)
Veterinary Education system supported to improve quality of
education and day one competence of graduates
• Support the Veterinary Education Forum (VEF) to develop a
plan for OIE day 1 competencies)
• Organize veterinary service governance study tours and
scientific visits to support the VEF acquire knowledge and
experience of outstanding regions, teaching and research
institutes and livestock establishments
• Review quality of veterinary education, service provision and
veterinary workforce and competencies of veterinary
graduates and practitioners at field level to initiate
interventions for enhancement

9. Communication within veterinary sector
Make available evidence to livestock producers
• Update and sustain EVA website, use as key information and
knowledge platform for veterinary sector
• Review the impact and cost-benefit of interventions
controlling livestock diseases
• Develop and pilot improved (herd health) methods
• Develop and disseminate gender sensitive extension
packages
• Support 20 woreda-based animal health resource centres
(from LIVES project)
•

10. Communication within veterinary sector
(cont.)
Facilitate communication and exchange of information among
stakeholders
• Develop communication plan for Livestock Policy, Investment
Strategy, for Ethiopia
• National workshops on animal health issues
• International/national conferences on the advancement of
livestock development/veterinary science, policy and
institutional issues for stakeholders’ interaction, knowledge
dissemination and experience sharing
• Attend international workshops on animal health issues

11. Health of Ethiopian Animals for Rural
Development (HEARD)
EU11th EDF – NIP ETH -
FED/2015/038-008

12. better lives through livestock
ilri.org
This presentation is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.