Antonio Rota

Senior Technical Adviser on Livestock and Farming Systems – PTA, IFAD

Silvia Sperandini

Consultant, KM & Partnership Building –PTA, IFAD

Livestock Week - IADG

IFAD HQ, Rome 4-5 May 2010

� Empower poor rural women and men to improve their food

security and increase their incomes.

Introduction - IFAD

Since its inception (1978) IFAD has:

�Provided more than US$12 billion in loans (796) and grants (2 128);

�Supported 829 programmes and projects in 117 countries and territories

Introduction - IFAD

Partnerships

Knowledge management

In particular to:

� Make poverty alleviation efforts more effective, efficient and relevant;

� Combine the best available skills and knowledge;

� Develop new and innovative solutions.

Introduction - IFAD

� The CoP for Pro-poor Livestock Development (CoP-PPLD) intends to be

a global and inclusive partnership among like-minded people involved in livestock development.

� Through the exchange of experiences and relevant knowledge across countries and institutions the CoP aim at developing and implementing

more effective, efficient and relevant rural development and poverty

reduction programs

� The CoP-PPLD has been facilitated (so far) by IFAD and supported by the financial contribution of the Government of Italy, the Government of Finland and DFID, through its Innovative Mainstreaming Initiative.

CoP-PPLD – Overall View

�Learning from and give a voice to the livestock community;

�Strengthening connectivity, actions and collaborations among a wide group

of stakeholders;

�Enhance the capacity of CoP-PPLD members to acquire and share knowledge

and innovations;

�Raising the understanding at various levels of the benefits of PPLD.

Objectives

CoP-PPLD – Overall View

Better Designed ProjectsBetter ImplementationBetter Impact

Better Designed ProjectsBetter ImplementationBetter Impact

Share Knowledge…

… Get Knowledge !

�To upload and exchange knowledge, support cooperation and

common initiatives, participate in general discussionsgeneral discussions, post

questionsquestions.

secretariat@cop-ppld.net

or, in low bandwidth low bandwidth contests

http://www.cop-ppld.net/

� The CoP-PPLD was launched in January 2009

� 402 people from more than 140 organizations are now member;

� New communication channels (a Website and a Mailing list ) were developed for continuous and dynamic interaction;

� from September ‘09 the portal received 6,049 visits from 145 countries;

� New partnerships and new strategic working relationships has been established among development partners;

� Experiences, good practices and lessons learnt have been shared;

18 months after… where are we?:

� Access to technical backstopping has been facilitated for better project design/implementation.

�KS/KM tools have been created together with and an Online Roster of

thematic experts;

�Various common initiatives (i.e. Online Discussion on Livestock Keepers Rights)

have been facilitated for the CoP-PPLD mutual learning;

�The CoP Portal has been selected as the FAO – NGOs sharing platform for

future knowledge management and information exchange;

� IFAD should provide soon a small grant to the South Asia Pro Poor Livestock

Policy Programme (FAO India) with the understanding that the programme

will coordinate its KM activities with the CoP-PPLD.

� Mapping knowledge on livestock insurance;

� Case study: “Livestock Insurance schemes for poor livestock farmers and

pastoralists”;

� Ask & Answer feature;

� 10 Livestock Thematic papers for Project Design;

� E-conference and online discussions.

� “Routine” activities (KM/Innovation sharing);

� Thematic papers development;

� Brokering of technical advisory services;

� Identifying appropriate approach for improving better sharing and interaction among partners;

� Strengthening Partnerships with rural/livestock

grassroot coomunities/associations (Kenya-Ghana).

CoP-PPLD – Ongoing Activities

Partnering with grassroot organizations of livestock producers will result in:

� A better understandingbetter understanding of local needsneeds and prioritiespriorities;

�Opening a channelpening a channel for sharingsharing knowledge (traditional/indigenous), practices and innovations;

�� Strengthening partnershipsStrengthening partnerships, connections, and working relations;

� Benefiting from mmultipleultiple sources of knowledgesources of knowledge and learning;

�� Strengthening Strengthening advocacyadvocacy and policy dialogue with decision-makers and local institutions;

� Contributing to the empowerment of womenempowerment of women engaged in livestock-related activities;

CoP-PPLD – Strengthening partnership with grassroot c ommunities

� Establishing sustainable information exchange sustainable information exchange

mechanismsmechanisms on livestock on livestock-related issues.

� Participating in the elaboration of common common

strategies/policies/operationsstrategies/policies/operations for pro-poor livestock development;

�� Accessing faster problemAccessing faster problem--solving mechanismssolving mechanisms with reduced duplication of efforts;

�� Accessing expertiseAccessing expertise directly through members and indirectly through members’ contacts.

CoP-PPLD – Strengthening partnership with grassroot c ommunities

� In Kenya strengthening connectivity, actions and collaboration with professional farmers’

organizations that are well structured, representative, well governed, and well capacitated is

rather feasible;

� It is more difficult with smaller organizations which are dealing with basic problems and needs

like in the case of Ghana.

� However, in both cases, the driving force for a successful interaction is the presence of

committed people/champions within the farmers’ organizations who lead for change and

innovative approaches;

� Farmer Associations have access to the email.

� Therefore the CoP-PPLD Secretariat through his mailing list can act as bridge between them and

the CoP-PPLD partners facilitating knowledge exchange;

� Mobile phones in remote areas;

� The mission also noted that farmers’ organizations building on traditional knowledge are very

keen to experiment innovative approaches and identify adapted solution to new problems, for

instance in the case of new challenges posed by climate change.

Findings