Partnership for Safe Poultry in Kenya (PSPK)

2010 Agribusiness Forum, Kampala, October 3-6

Henk Knipscheer (Winrock)

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Partnership for Safe Poultry in Kenya (PSPK)

OVERVIEW

• March 2009-March 2011

• Active in 9 districts across Kenya

• PSPK leverages the time & expertise of

international and East African regional

volunteers to provide technical assistance

to poultry sector stakeholders

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Program Objectives

• Promote improved bio-security

practices to reduce the threat of

Highly Pathogenic Avian

Influenze (HPAI) and other

poultry diseases

• Increase the competitiveness of

Kenyan eggs and poultry meat

• Increase income for Kenyan

rural smallholder poultry

producers

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PSPK

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• Provides economic incentives for

smallholder poultry producers to

adopt bio-security measures

• Targets producers in major

poultry-producing parts of the

country

• Could easily be applied across

the region, along the larger bird

migration corridors

The PSPK Approach

• Bringing together poultry sector stakeholders for

collaboration, information sharing, and outreach

• Conducting analyses to identify stakeholders,

constraints, and opportunities

• Strengthening local capacity

• Introducing simple, low-cost

bio-security measures

• Creating linkages

• Leveraging volunteers

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Stakeholder Collaboration & Outreach

• Stakeholder

consultations

• Workshops

• Kenya Poultry Sector

Knowledge System (www.kenyapoultry.org)

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Poultry Sector Analyses

• Stakeholder inventory

• Value chain analyses,

including assessment of feed

testing facilities

• Targeted studies on sector

competitiveness issues

• These analyses have shown:

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Growing consumer preference –indigenous poultry meat & eggs,

white meat

Need for branding

Opportunity to aggregate production

Need for quality standards & improved management

systems/practices

Improving Production, Competitiveness & Product

Safety Concerns

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Poultry Products sold to

Consumers: Safety concerns

addressed, Branded, consumer

awareness

Trader contract

farmer groups

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Smallholder Linkages to Markets,

Market Information, Inputs, Finance

• Aggregating production to

access inputs

• Innovative financing model

• Linkages to finance

institutions

• Partnerships with

buyers/traders

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Trade Level

• Trained 6 traders on biosecurity (Transportation

processing & marketing) and consumer safety

concerns

• Develop brand for each trader and link to

supermarket supply

• Train 44 live bird market traders from Nairobi & its

environs on risk of live bird handling and consumer

safety concerns

• Encourage supply linkage between processors and

live bird market traders to reduce live bird market

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Innovative Elements

• Dual focus on smallholder production/incomes and

measures to address threats from the avian

influenza pandemic

• Highly targeted to specific aspects of the poultry

sector

• Establishment of partnerships of key players along

the value chain including partnership with traders

– Avoids duplication of efforts/reduced costs

– Leverages on partners’ resources to maximize impact

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Opportunities for Replication/ Regional Expansion

• Replicate value chain analyses and stakeholder

inventories across other East African countries

• Invite regional stakeholders to participate in regional

workshops & study tours

• Enable regional stakeholders to access information

on the Kenya Poultry Sector Knowledge System

• Facilitate cross visits & field days for other farmers,

traders, and input providers

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Lessons learned: improving sector competitiveness

• Lower mortality/higher productivity on farm level

resulting in higher revenues for farmers

• Improved logistics for trading partners because of

farmers grouping (reduced transaction costs) and

trader contracting resulting in lower costs for

commercial partners

• Incentives of the premium for local/indigenous

chicken are being passed on to farmers resulting in

higher revenues for farmers

CONTACT DETAILS

• Comments from possible investors (private equity,

banks, donors) to expand the Partnership for Safe

Poultry program (PSP) across the East Africa

Community are welcome!

DAVID NORMAN

referred by Henk Knipscheer

Enterprise & Agriculture Program

Winrock International

Email: DNorman@winrock.org14