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

· Provide appropriate practical training and link them with old-day chicken suppliers.

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.