ipms project background and approach
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Presented by Dirk Hoekstra at the opening of Market-Oriented Smallholder Development: IPMS Experience-Sharing Workshop, Addis Ababa, 2-3 June 2011.TRANSCRIPT
Background and approach IPMS project
Dirk Hoekstra
Market-Oriented Smallholder Development: IPMS Experience-Sharing Workshop
ILRI, Addis Ababa, 2-3 June 2011
Outline presentation
• Background
• Approach
• Diagnosis and planning
• Implementation
• Concluding remarks
Background
Policy environment
• The Ministry started formulating new policies aimed at transforming subsistence agriculture into a more market oriented agricultural system some 10 years ago.
• This was reflected in the PASDEP for the period 2005-2010.
PASDEP Emphasis
From subsistence To market oriented
PASDEP Emphasis
Gender balanced development Increased cooperative/private sector involvement
CIDA Ministerial visit to Ethiopia resulted in willingness to finance
IPMS project
Approach
How do you implement such a market oriented strategy??
• What should be the approach? Will it be the same as for food security and natural resource management?
• How do we design/test it?
Possible answer to the approach question
• Adopting a participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach– So what does it mean and how does it
complement previous approaches• Development through field testing and
learning
Participatory market oriented commodity value chain approach
Production based on improved technologies
Inputs /services
Processing and marketing Agri business
Farmers
Agri businesspublic sector
Research , extension education
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Project components
Interventions
Studies and documentation
Recommendations for scaling out
Testing in 10 Districts
The process
Diagnosis & planning
Commodity development
Knowledge/skillsdevelopmentM&E and learning
M&E and learningCommodity development
Knowledge/skillsdevelopment
Role of partners and IPMS
• Partners are implementing the interventions• IPMS acts as:– Facilitator: for the introduction of the new
approach through technical assistance and finance for partners
– Partner: for extension and research (studies, documentation, synthesis) activities
Diagnosis & planning
Initial planning
• Diagnose/determine – Farming systems – different resources/potentials– Marketable commodities – which ones?– Value chain actors roles and linkages
• Design – Production, input/service, processing and marketing
interventions– Knowledge and capacity development interventions to
fill diagnosed gaps
Diagnosis & planning methods and processes
Gender diagnosis
• Butter & women in rural areas in all Regions
HIV/AIDS
Toolkit to diagnose HIV/AIDS situation and idea sheet on potential interventions
Environment
Use of agri chemicals Lowering water tables
Implementation1st round
Implementation
• Commodity value chain interventions
• Knowledge/skills development interventions
• Monitor, evaluate and learn
Commodity development
Awareness (demand) creation in District and communities
• Workshops, meetings
• Study tours
• Demonstration
Dairy value chain development 1
Dairy value chain development 2
Knowledge management and capacity development
Overall approach
• Based on diagnosed gaps in knowledge and skills– Service providers– Value chain actors in particular farmers.
Ethiopian Agricultural Portal
Use of Woreda Knowledge Centre
Computer use and internet access Documentation from various sources
Other methods of knowledge capturing and sharing
Study tours Field days
Capacity development service providers
Subject matter training Computer training
MSc/BSc education and research Assessing market potentials coffee varieties Presenting results to the beneficiaries
Farmers skills and knowledge development in FTCs
Demonstration areas Class room teaching with audio
Women skills development
Practical training husband and wife Targeting women groups
Drama group to increase awareness on HIV/AIDS
Training materials and working papers
Monitoring & evaluation and learning
Methods and tools
• Follow up visits by service providers
• Field days
• Meetings platforms/Woreda Advisory and Learning Committees (formal and informal)
Implementation 2cd round
Sequential interventions
Production of bananas Ripening of bananas
Sequential interventions
Onion seed production Certification
Sequential interventionsFlowering of leguminous plants in communal grazing areas Which can be used for apiculture
Concluding remarks
So was a new approach developed?
• At District level– Various knowledge management interventions operational– Service providers and farmers capacitated for market oriented development– Linkages between producers, other value chain actors and service providers
operational– Change to commercially oriented agriculture using modern technologies– Alternative input supply , service delivery systems and marketing intervetions
operational– Role of extension starts changing from input supplier to knowledge broker and
facilitator of linkages • At regional and federal level
– EAP operational and increased understanding of the importance of knowledge for development
– Selected regional and federal level staff capacitated for market oriented development
– Increased understanding of value chain development
Main lessons & lessons
• Development is a continuous process which requires continuous engagement new responses and involvement of new actors and service providers
• Role of commercially oriented value chain actors can be the engine for development
• Key areas for future development, to increase production in the Districts: – Regional/federal level support system– Supply of inputs and services and – Processing and marketing of products beyond the District.
Thank You