Building the Community of Practice for Pro-poor Livestock Development

Main Findings from the Need AssessmentSilvia Sperandini

Consultant, Knowledge Management and LearningTechnical Advisory Division, PT

12-13 January 2009

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

• To present the Need Assessment and its objectives;

• To highlight participants' views and key findings;

• To link the main results with the Workshop objectives.

Objectives of the presentation:

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

• It intended to be a starting point to build an effective and powerful Community of Practice in line with participants' expectations

Why a Need Assessment:

• Set a first target group of committed people and organizations ;

• Know participants’ views and expectations on CoPs;

• Open the dialogue on common priority needs, strategies and areas of actions.

It aimed to:

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

Response rate:

Methodology:• Process broad and participatory;• The electronic survey was sent to 166 resource people.

• Universities and research institutes; Farmers organizations; International organizations; Regional networks and other consortia; Development practitioners, decision makers etc.

Target Group:

• 85 resource people (52%) from 45 different organizations;• 79% of them express their interest in joining the CoP.

The attention on livestock development issues;The interest in establishing new strategic working relationships.

This reflects:

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

• Livestock merits a better position in the international agendaMulti-stakeholders partnerships can raise this awareness embracing the importance of livestock development;

• An effective sustainable livestock development passes through:Better designed/better targeted programmes, and better implementation support;

Concrete focus on poor farmers and on their socio-economic empowerment;

Innovative activities;

Better partnerships and knowledge sharing (of what works and doesn’t work);

Demand-driven and participatory interventions;

Institutional support and pro-poor policies.

Key highlights:

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

• Empowering poor livestock keepers to secure their assets; • Improving productivity and competitiveness of livestock

products with a sustainable use of the available natural resources;

• Improving market access and market opportunities;• Assuring poor livestock keepers' inclusion and participation in

the development process;• Investing in capacity building;• Supporting pro-poor adaptive research.

Main priorities:

Main Findings from the Need Assessment

• Identifying and piloting innovative interventions; • Improving mechanisms for achieving better results; and• Supporting learning for achieving better results;• Securing financial resources in support of a pro-poor

livestock development;• Improving the effectiveness of existing practices.

“Developing new ways of working together”

Respondents' expectations:

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