Group Work Guidelines

  1. Review and prioritize the potential research areas for each commodity by year using the template below:

Commodity / Type of research / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 and beyond
Dairy / Diagnostic / •Assessment of dairy input and service supply
•Access to knowledge/skills development peri-urban and rural dairy production for male, female and youth farmers
•Rapid assessment/action planning communal grazing area development
•Rapid assessment butter and cottage cheese market channels and consumers
•Assessment dairy specific knowledge/capacity interventions, including dairy platforms / •Assessment feed improvement and feeding practices dairy animals in peri-urban and rural system
•Access to knowledge/skills development peri-urban and rural dairy production for male, female and youth farmers
•Assessment of dairy market linkage and their interactions
•Assessment of fertility problems and fertility management dairy cows
•Assessment fluid milk/butter quality at different stages of the value chain
•Assessment on-farm (milk) butter processing systems
•Assessment of traditional dairy product preservation and storage practices
•Assessment of on farm milk production and productivity
•Assessment of milk consumption pattern
•Assessment of dairy cooperative performance and challenges / •Assessment of fertility problems and fertility management dairy cows
•Assessment of Animal health such as Zoonotic diseases (Example BTB), mastitis
•Assessment fluid milk/butter quality at different stages of the value chain
Action /
  • Innovation history of dairy value chain development
•Studies on mass insemination program vis a vis other institutional approaches
•Study on irrigated fodder/Forage production, utilization and conservation / •Cost benefit analysis of selected dairy production interventions in peri-urban and rural system
•Studies on communal grazing area development Studies on forage seed multiplication system
•Different institutional arrangements for dairy processing in peri-urban fluid milk system/rural butter system
•Study on leguminous tree, alley cropping and area closure
•Study on milk production under different production systems / •Study on household consumption of dairy products
•Study on milk quality and food
• safety
•Study on milk production under different production systems
Impact / With and without project
Before and after intervention
•Productionproduction system
•Productivity
•Economic
•Environmental impact
•Biodiversity
•Sustainability of market linkage
•Gender equity
•Consumption pattern and expenditure on dairy products /
  • Production & production system
  • Productivity
  • Economic
  • Environmental impact
  • Biodiversity
  • Sustainability of market linkage
  • Gender equity
  • Consumption pattern and expenditure on dairy products

  1. Identify research partners (organizations and/or individuals) and their roles by commodity and location using the following format

Dairy
Role / Partner organization/researchers
National Coordination /
  • Overall coordination,
  • M and E,
  • CommunicationPromotion
  • Alignment
  • Resource mobilization
/ ILRI, EIAR, IWMI, MoA
Tigray- Central zone /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Involvedin field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, TARI, Universities, NGOs, Zonal and district level administration, AGP/LMD
Tigray – Eastern zone /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, TARI, Universities, NGOs
Amhara- West Gojam /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, AARI, Universities, NGOs, AGP/LMD
Amhara – North Gonder /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, AARI, Universities, NGOs, AGP/LMD
Amhara – South Wollo /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, AARI, Universities, NGOs, AGP/LMD
Oromia – West Shoa /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, OARI, Universities, NGOs, AGP/LMD
Oromia-East Showa /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, OARI, Universities, NGOs, AGP/LMD
SNNPR –Sidama /
  • Facilitate implementation of the project
  • Undertake field level research
  • Farmer Mobilization
  • Farmers, experts, DA, TA training
  • Data collection
  • Feed back
/ BoARD, AARI, Universities, NGOs