Area/segment | Constraint | A short term proposed solutions/interventions | A medium and long term proposed solutions/interventions | Potential partner/ organizations |
Health Service | · Absence of health services provision | · Establish health and medication service/vaccination in the areas by assuring effectiveness and timely service provision by public and private providers · Enhance public animal health service delivery, better service incentive and accountability development · Promote recognized private animal health service providers such as veterinarians and CAHWs (refreshment training and recognition of service) | · Integrate poultry health service in the existing CAHWs systems and government disease control programs. · Improving the coverage of government veterinary campaigns by the inclusion of poultry production where appropriate. · Vaccination services – working through and inpartnership with Livestock Officers and farmer associations. | · Regional livestock Authorities · Trained private service providers such as CAHWs and agro vets. |
Breed Improvement | · Absence of genetic improvement | · Genetic improvement program for traditional poultry breeds such as community-based breeding schemes · Enhance the day-old chicken supply system and make it more organized and efficient. · Enhance the capacity of women and youth pullet suppliers: by selecting more ready women groups for raising day-old chicken to 45 days to 5 months old pullet to be sold to eggs and chicken producers. | · Cross-breeding of local breeds with exotic ones. · Supply of improved breeds to the community · Engage well trained and experienced women and youth groups in hatching and other inputs supply business | · Livestock office and private sector · Day old chicken suppliers · Government · NGOs |
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Financial Services | Limited financial service | · Promote saving and credit groups to mobilize starting capital for better scale poultry production at farmers level. · Work with financial service providers for start-up flock, growers, feed suppliers, women · Groups and medium scale commercial poultry production. | · Establishment of Villages saving and credit group (VSLA) to help women increase income from poultry production and consumable goods trading activities. · Supporting the already existing women groups in some study villages. | · Credit and Saving Cooperatives; · Credit and Saving women groups and · Commercial banks |
Production | · Traditional management | · Women friendly practical training approach (time, content and approach): simple training material preparation and delivery with the consultation of women to decide the training place, time and duration of training to make it more convenient for them. · Training packages on animal Husbandry tailored to poultry production. | · Contextualized housing and sheltering technologies promotion and inputs access: by engaging local workshops fabrication and supply of average household poultry sheltering with affordable prices. · Champion integrated farmer field school (IFFS) approach to tackle problems facing poultry owners through participatory demonstration approaches. · Improve housing of the poultry with the use of affordable materials. · Entrepreneurship training on how to insert or build poultry houses tailored to village production. | · Traders, NGOs, Farmer cooperatives, Livestock Agency at a different level. · TVET schools and universities. |
Market Linkage | · Absence of linkages between Value Chain actors | · Encourage better market linkages, collection and distribution arrangements with peri-urban dwellers, nearby towns and restaurant owners. · Awareness creation and encouragement of egg and poultry meat consumption at the household level to improve the nutritional status · Create linkage workshops with agro vets and village owners. This would strengthen relationships both vertically and horizontally along the value chain to address financial and technical constraints. · It is needed to encourage group cooperation in Developing poultry farming. | · Marketing of inputs such as drugs through open days organised in collaboration with informal breeders. · Establish village poultry farmer associations andcooperatives. | · Farmer cooperatives, NGOs, Government, local regional and district authorities, agrovets and consumers. |