Presented by Amos Omore at the Maziwa Zaidi Review and Planning Meeting, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 30 March-1 April 2015

1. Maziwa Zaidi Overview and Update
(Tanzania smallholder dairy value chain development program)
Maziwa Zaidi R4D Projects Review and SC Meeting
1 April 2015, Giraffe Hotel, Dar es Salaam
Amos Omore & Lusato Kurwijila

2. Tanzania is one of 8 target value chains
 focus  accountability
PIGS
AQUACULTURE
SHEEP & GOATS
DAIRY

3. Background and Premise
• Tanzania’s GDP growth over the last decade has
barely impacted the poor
• Research solutions helping to attract more
investments to transform the smallholder dairy
sector over 10 yrs
• Smallholder dairy VC R&D engagement since 2012:
assessments and action research on pilots of
integrated interventions by development partners
• Strong focus on pro-poor marginalised pre-
commercial men and women
• Proven concept on targeting marginalised groups
taken to scale

4. THE
EFFECTS
THE CAUSES Poor access to
veterinary
services
Poor quality
feeds / feeding
practices
Poor disease
control
programs
Low capacity to
extend technical
knowledge and
information
WHOLE VALUE CHAIN WITH DOWNSTREAM EMPHASIS
INPUTS & SERVICES PRODUCTION MARKETING CONSUMPTION
1. Low productivity
2. Poor access to production and market inputs and services
Poor nutrition Food insecurity / hidden hungerPovertyTHE IMPACT
Inconsistent
access to water/
seasonality
1. Cattle keepers’ have low capacity to innovate, manage risk, reduce vulnerability,
increase incomes, and ensure food security.
2. The sector is starved of appropriate credit facilities that can finance acquisition of basic
inputs and services.
3. Low investment in productivity improving innovations has perpetuated a low-input
low-output vicious cycle.
INTERVENTION
AREAS
small-scale nature of
the production systems
Low
genetic
potential
Problem statement
Lack of appropriate
organizational approaches
few and poorly linked
BDS providers
Low access inputs and
services
ASSOCIATED
WITH
More milk, income,
assets and better
health & Nutrition

5. Vision: an inclusive and sustainable development of the
dairy value chain.
Long term goals

6. How to get there…
(impact pathways – now aligned to new L&F flagships)
Strategy and Implementation Plan for value chain
transformation and scaling to 2023 drafted.

7. Big Picture: Place of individual projects in
‘Maziwa Zaidi’
Aiming for research outputs made-to-order for immediate and future use

8. Key problems being addressed
1. Dominant direct sales of small volumes by
smallholder producers that preclude
economies of scale
2. Credit facilities for basic inputs and services or
working capital are lacking. This discourages
investment to improve productivity
3. Lack of appropriate organizational models for
pre-commercial producers (complex cooperative
models and technology-driven solutions have largely
failed, especially applies in extensive areas)
4. Seasonality of rainfall and related effects are
strong

9. Piloting Sites
Site selection criteria
High cattle density; High poverty level; High population density; Good access to market; High
production potential; Deficit areas with potential for increasing supply through feed interventions;
Potential partners/stakeholders.

10. What is unique about what we
are piloting and what progress
have we made?

11. Dairy market hubs without collective bulking and
marketing
Illustration of a dairy market hub for provision of inputs and services on pay-
off arrangements where there no without collective bulking and marketing

12. Criteria for becoming a Dairy Market Hub
DMH Category Criteria for becoming a DMH
a): Collective bulking and
sale of milk by members
of a farmers group
Farmers group:
i) is registered at district level
ii) has at least 1 link with a milk trader/ buyer
and at least 1 link with an input & services
provider
iii) members are able to access inputs &
services with or without on check-off
system
b) Individual members of a
farmers group sell milk
directly to traders

13. How many of each hub category?
DMH category Morogoro Tanga Total
a Chilling plant 0 2 2
a+b Chilling plant and milk
traders
6 6 12
b Milk traders 8 8 16
Total 14 16 30
Aim: Develop these into vibrant, well organized and sustainable
DMHs delivering demand-led inputs and services

14. Some lessons in facilitating change
1. How to adapt the concept of dairy market hubs to the specific
needs of the heterogeneous farmer groups
2. Farmer groups have ‘blueprints’ for organizational development
that they own: includes what Maziwa Zaidi can address and what
the groups will pursue by themselves.
3. SSPs domesticated dairy market hubs interventions linking traders
and BDS providers to improve access to inputs & services (on
check-off arrangements) in some villages
4. Desired flexibility in capacity development
5. It will take longer time to initiate "CHECK OFF and B2B" in some
remote villages because of few inputs and services providers
6. Overlapping roles and functions between ‘farmer group’ and
‘innovation platform’ in one or more villages has made us re-think
what multi-stakeholder processes are required at each level

15. Some lessons in facilitating change (cont’d)
7. ‘Rumours’ about handouts by Maziwa Zaidi
8. More demand for training than we can afford given limit of 30
farmers per group
9. District Community Development Departments interacting with the
groups on various development activities
10. Providing training closer to where farmers come from encourages
more women to participate
11. DDF is valued for sharing information, but need to re-emphasize its
role as an informal yet structured space for addressing common
challenges, to network, jointly advocate for changes in policy, and
that it is a joint effort where active participation is required to
achieve its intended goals.

16. Towards a More Inclusive Dairy Development in Tanzania
4rd Dairy Development Forum (DDF) Meeting
Co-hosted by
Tanzania Dairy Board (TDB) – DDF Secretariat
Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA)
International Livestock and Research Institute (ILRI)
International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Land O Lakes Inc.
Heifer Project International (HPI)
SNV - The Netherlands Development Organisation
Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries Development (MLDF)
Institute for People, Innovations and Change in Organisations (PICO) Eastern Africa
What you will hear at the meeting…..
• Follow up to the agenda set at the last DDF including
o Update on progress made by task forces addressing issues around arrangements for multiplication and delivery of dairy genetics
o Issues to address in order to achieve year round availability of quality feeds
On 6th & 7th October 2014 at Giraffe Ocean View Hotel, Dar es Salaam
Objectives of the 4rd DDF
To continue to address the agenda on :
(i) Strategies for expanding the national dairy herd:
• On 6th October 2014: Task forces formed at the last DDF meet in
respective groups to advance their agenda
(i) Business solutions for year round availability of quality feeds:
• On 7th October 2014: Following a scene setting presentation, the
agenda on improving access to feeds, forages and related
services will be addressed
What we expect from you….
• Participation in facilitated sessions to continue to co-create solutions
• How you have been or will contribute to generating solutions (e.g., by joining re-constituted or new task forces)

17. Resource Mobilization last 3 years: on-going and closed
Feeds
1. Enhancing dairy-based livelihoods in Tanzania and India through feed innovation and value chain
development approaches (MilkIT; IFAD) - closed
2. Fodder and feed as a key opportunity for driving sustainable intensification of crop livestock
systems in Tanzania (USAID)
3. Feed the Future Innovation Lab on Small-Scale Irrigation in Tanz, Eth and Gh (USAID) - new
Genetics
4. Dairy Genetics East Africa Phase II (DGEA2, BMGF) - closed
5. Evaluation of breed composition, productivity and fitness for smallholder dairy cattle in Tanzania
(TDG, AgriTT-DFID)
Animal health
6. What’s killing my cow? Re-assessing diseases in smallholder dairying in Tanzania (GIZ) - closed
Food safety/nutrition
7. Safe food, fair food (SFFF2, BMZ) - closed
8. Rapid assessment of potential benefits to human health and nutrition from research on livestock
and fish market chains (ACIAR) - closed
9. Leveraging Dairy Value Chain Development in Tanzania for Improved Nutrition and Health of
Women and Children (USAID Linkage) - new
10. Study on “Looking beyond income: impact of hubs on human nutrition in Tanz” (SPIA) - new
Markets/hubs
11. More milk by and for the poor: Adapting dairy market hubs for pro-poor smallholder value
chains in Tanzania (MoreMilkIT; Irish Aid)
12. East Africa Dairy Development Project (EADD) Phase II (BMGF)
Environment:
13. CLEANED (BMGF) - closed
Gender (and above)
13. Dairy goat and root crop production (CGP, IDRC) - closed

18. Key partnerships and engagements
1. Strategic Research Partnerships
• SUA
• TALIRI
 Reinforced by CGIAR & ARIs
2. Development Partnerships
• Servicing the system: Heifer and SNV
• From the system: TDB, FAIDA MaLi
3. Mechanisms for strengthening relationships
• DDF
• Local area platforms

19. Links for further information…
• livestockfish.cgiar.org/focus/tanzania
• www.safefoodfairfood.org
• livestock-fish.wikispaces.com/VCD+Tanzania
• moremilkit.wikispaces.com/home
• milkit.wikispaces.com/

20. 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.
CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish
livestockfish.cgiar.org

21. Steering Committee ToRs
• Provide strategic leadership of the project
• Provide linkages to project beneficiaries
• Provide a mechanism for information sharing and
engendering ownership by target communities
• Perform other functions deemed relevant for
successful implementation of the project
• The steering committee shall be held twice a year (in of the
two regions)
• Other stakeholders may attend the Steering Committee
meetings by invitations

22. Enhanced Steering Committee Membership
Institution Representation Role Email
1. Morogoro Region
Secretariat
Regional Administrative
Secretary (RAS)
Co- Chair Elia Ntandu
<gaspermsimbe@gmail.com>
2. Tanga Region Secretariat Regional Administrative
Secretary (RAS)
Co-Chair Salum Mohamed Chima
issaohatibu@gmail.com;
macreaaj2@gmail.com
3. Mvomero District Council District Executive
Director (DED)
Member Walles Karia
<dedmvomero@yahoo.com>;
<dskpangani@yahoo.com>
4.. Kilosa District Council District Executive
Director (DED)
Member Masalu Mayaya
<niconzengatz2@gmail.com>;
<sagilowema@gmail.com>
5. Handeni District Council District Executive
Director (DED)
Member Khalfan Haule <handenidc@yahoo.com>
6. Lushoto District Council District Executive
Director (DED)
Member Jumanne Shauri
<lushotoded@yahoo.com>;
<abeidkiungulia@gmail.com>
7. Bumbuli Council District Executive
Director (DED)
Member Beatrice Msomisi (c/o Lushoto DED)
<lushotoded@yahoo.com>;
<abeidkiungulia@gmail.com>
8. Heifer International (HI) Country Director Member Henry Njakoi <henry.njakoi@heifer.org>
9. Tanzania Dairy Board
(TDB)
Registrar Member Mayasa Simba
<mayasasimba@gmail.com>
10. International Livestock
Research Institute (ILRI)
MoreMilkIT Project
Leader / ILRI Rep
Member
(Secretary)
Amos Omore <a.omore@cgiar.org>
11. Sokoine University of
Agriculture (SUA)
MoreMilkiT Project Co-
ordinator
Member
(Secretary)
Lusato Kurwijila
>kurwijila_2000@yahoo.com>
12. International Center for
Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
MilkIT Project Leader Member
(Secretary)
Brigitte Maass <B.Maass@cgiar.org>
13. MLFD Director Research,
Extension and Training
Invited to
be member
Dr Mohammed M Bahari
<msigarabahari55@gmail.com>
14. MLFD Director of Livestock
Production and
Marketing
Invited to
be member
Ms Anunciate Njombe
<njombe_ap@yahoo.com>
15. MLFD Director Policy and
Planning
Invited to
be member
Ms Catherine Joseph
<ddp@mifugo.go.tz>
16. MLFD Deputy Permanent
Secretary
Invited to
be member
Dr Yohana Budeba
<yobudeba@gmail.com>
17. Irish Aid - Advisor-Rural
Livelihood and Growth
Observer Observer Sizya Lugeye <Sizya.Lugeye@dfa.ie>
18. IFAD Regional Dairy
Representative
Observer Observer Ntukanyagwe, Aimable
<a.ntukanyagwe@ifad.org>?
=Also projects implementers =New invitees