ELKS Enhancing livelihoods through livestock knowledge systems

KM 4 ResultsKnowledge Management for: “Effective Service Delivery for Increasing Benefits from Pig Rearing

in the North East”

Development of an Experiential Framework for Planning

By: Ram Deka

INTEGRATED SERVICE DELIVERY FOR PROMOTION OF PIGGERY IN REMOTE RURAL

AREAS of NAGALAND

Gowahati, 7-9 April 2010

Context/Background

o Implementing organisation: ILRIo Organisational mandate and mission: Livestock Research

for Development in Developing countries around the globe

o Project History: Project started under WB sponsored NAIP project in partnership with ICAR-Nagaland Centre & SASARD (NU)

o Type of intervention : Capacity strengthening, integrated input & ouput service delivery & policy advocacy

oGeographical Areas of Intervention: Mon district of Nagaland

o Objective of the intervention: To improve the efficiency of current production system through incremental changes in production system

o Funding : World Bank & IFAD

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Project Stakeholders and Structures

o End beneficiaries of the project : Smallholder pig producers

o Actors/ service providers: Community identified members from own community

o State level actors : SASARD & Vety. Deptt., Nagaland/ Assam

o Others actors: ICAR & ILRI

o Project steering mechanism: SHGs, Village Councils & Pastor

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Service Model Features

o Step I: Screened of local best practices in the NE region

oStep II: Screened local resources, level of skill, market opportunity, need and interest of the target community

oStep III: Designed the draft intervention plan and discussed with the target community

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oStep IV: Suggested the community to identify the beneficiaries / actors

oStep V: Assessed, designed & delivered training through participatory mode

oStep VI: Mobilised & built the capacity of the target community to run the programme by them

oStep VII: Provided guidance & refresher training as & when required

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Improving breeding stock in the village: Hands on Gift (HoG) scheme

Components of Integrated services

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Poor veterinary & input services: Community lead Veterinary First Aid practitioners

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Address the problem of feed: Demonstration of food-feed crops

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Poor housing: Improved housing by the beneficiaries with locally available resources

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Poor sanitation & disease risk: Community lead hygiene & sanitation drive

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Poor access to market: Buyers sellers meet

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Advocacy: Followed evidence based approach

Achievements attained:

o Community capacity strengthening :- Community become more eager to learn, they prefer to

attend the training without expecting any fee

- Community is adopting the practices without and financial support from the project

o Efficiency/Effectiveness of (district )services :-Services are community lead and running without much effort from ILRI

- Village Council, Pastor are guiding the people to run the programme

- Peer pressure is working with the SHG to move the programme

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- SHGs realized the importance of collective approach

o Economic benefits for end –beneficiaries:-Yet to come up

o Sustainability & replicability of scheme:- Built the capacity of the community members to

continue the good work- Build the network of F.A. practitioners with all the

relevant stakeholders- Nearby villages approached ILRI to build their capacity

to run the programme without expecting any financial benefit

Challenges/Key Issues/Obstacles

Organisational level- SHGs were formed without motivating and capacity building of villagers as an overnight process to distribute the benefits from the project

o Stakeholder cooperation:- Faced lot of problems as project partners/ govt. / local NGOs are distributing lot of materials as gift and paying money to community for their time

o Household/ farmer/ community level: - Villagers are too poor to buy any inputs/ services for

livestock - Villagers are not able to pay for First Aid serviceso Animal production/marketing- Very poor access to the market by road- - Poor demand within the village- - Villagers are quite dispersed to organize the market

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Lessons learnt/best practices

Approach used:- Should not be supply driven

o Institutional/organisational aspects :- Implementing partners should have better coordination- Implementers should have well understanding on

participatory approach of livelihood improvement

oAnimal production/marketing - Implementing any livelihood programme is much more

difficult in a very remote areas that too with very poor people

o Stakeholder involvement /cooperation- Stakeholders should involve right from the planning stage- Individual farming unit is better than group unit

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Thank You for your Attention !

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