Baseline activities and data management for the African Chicken Genetic Gains program

Jane Poole and Absolomon Kihara (ILRI)First ACGG Program Management Team meeting,

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia18-20 May 2015

ACGG Baseline – Objectives / Purpose

• The main Objective / Purpose of our ACGG baseline activities is to establish our ‘starting point’ before implementing project activities

– establishing the current levels of key project indicators that relate to: monitoring project progress and help to guide project activities and interventions (e.g. on-station testing and on-farm monitoring).

– Deciding at what level / in what format to collect the data (e.g. household, community)

ACGG Baseline – Indicators

Indicator

Pote

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Improved

Genetics and reproduction

Genetic gain (for milk, eggs and meat) Outcome TBD

Mi lk yield as a function of best available breed Outcome TBD

Egg yield as a function of best available breed Outcome TBD

Poultry meat yield as a function of best available breed Outcome TBD

Real

ized

Pro

duct

ivity

Animal health systems

% of smallholder farmers using animal health products Outcome HH surveys

% of smallholder farmers using vaccination for [ECF, Newcastle Disease] Outcome HH surveys

Mortal ity rate due to disease Outcome HH surveys OIE PVS scores Outcome OIE

Animal genetic systems

% of farmers owning improved breeds (of poultry, dairy cattle) Outcome HH surveys

% of da iry farmers using artificial insemination Outcome HH surveys

Livestock production mgmt

% of improved/crossbred dairy and poultry animals in smallholder farmer-owned

herds Outcome

HH surveys

% of smallholder farmers using housing for poultry Outcome HH surveys

% of smallholder farmers using supplemental feed/fodder practices Outcome HH surveys Productivity (eggs per animal, by breed) Impact HH surveys

Productivity (milk per animal, by breed) Impact HH surveys

Household production (eggs per household) Impact HH surveys

Household production (poultry, small ruminant meat per household) Impact HH surveys

Household production (milk per household) Impact HH surveys

Knowledge exchange

% of smallholder farmers with access to extension services (ICT, radio, extension agent)

Outcome HH surveys

Postproduction losses (milk, eggs, meat) Outcome HH surveys

Real

ized

Val

ue

Total livestock holding (by species), disaggregated by sex of owner Impact HH surveys

Per capita annual HH income – l ivestock ($US), disaggregated by sex of earner Impact HH surveys

Mean household asset score, (livestock, productive, etc.) disaggregated by sex of owner

Impact HH surveys

Annual net cash income from poultry Impact HH surveys Annual net cash income from dairy Impact HH surveys Annual net cash income from small ruminants Impact HH surveys Consumption of livestock products (from poultry, dairy, small ruminants) Impact HH surveys

ACGG Baseline - Activities

• Community level surveys (Focus Group Discussions, FGDs)

• Household level producer surveys

• Other value-chain actor surveys (e.g. traders, feed suppliers etc.)

• Key Informant Interviews

ACGG Baseline – Activities cont’d

• What do we need for each activity?

– Sampling plan (linked across activities)

– Data management plan (linked across activities)

– Tools: questionnaires, interview questions, group work materials, facilitation methods

– Hardware to complete the activity (i.e. tablets)

– Resources & logistics (e.g. enumerators and field supervisors, transport etc.)

• A lot of this has already been thought through by the country teams and documented

• Where? – Which area and communities to include in the survey (target population), stratification &/or clustering of households, logistics & resources

• Who? – Chicken producers with at least 2 – 3 years experience keeping poultry, how many? how selected?

• How & What? – Survey tool covering a range of issues relating to chicken keeping and capturing data needed to establish baseline levels for key project indicators….

ACGG Baseline – Household level survey

• Key aspect – Single tool for ALL countries

• Topics to cover in household level survey:

– Poultry production

– Poultry productivity

– Income from poultry & poultry products

– Household Dynamics & Gender

– Food Security & Nutrition: Social aspects of poultry keeping (mostly covered in FGDs)

– Training & extension, access to credit, group membership

– General household information

ACGG Baseline – Household level survey: How? & What?

• Identifying the key project indicators – results framework, country-specific interest areas (e.g. 4 – 5 indicators from each)

• Tool development, including the data collection software (ODK) from now until end of June

• Testing the tool & training enumerators; then initiation of surveys (July / August)

ACGG Baseline – Household level survey: Process & Timelines

Project components• Baseline

• Longitudinal /On farm

• On station

• Focus Group Discussion (FGDs)

ACGG Data Management

Components’ data drivers

Country

PI, Co PIs, SNC, Informatician

ACGG Team (Oversight)

EnumeratorsInformatician, Social

Economist

Focal Person

ODK based data collection

Design• Designed as word document

Encoding• Encode the forms to ODK format

Testing• Testing of the survey tool on ODK

Training• In-country: Enumerators training

Pre-testing• In-country: Enumerator pre-testing

Deploy• In-country: Commencement of activity

Design, Test & Collect

Public & Private Datasets

Data management platform

Analysis & visualization platform

clean, curate and process

ILRI Data Management Platform

The Data Portalhttp://data.ilri.org/

• Data standards

• Data access

– Country level

– Project level

• Data security

• Sharing

• Open access

Housekeeping

more productive chickens for Africa’s smallholders

http://africacgg.net

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