DAY 2
Participants arrived for the second day of the PIW by 9:00am. Dr Tunji welcomed the participants and pointed that Dr Jonas has commended the frank discussions observed among participants when compared with previous PIWs by other consortia.
The first activity of the day was a plenary presentation and discussions on recap on day 1 by groups through the presentation of content reflections of the day and their implications and the partnership’s vision and mission.
Highlights of the content reflections are
i. The workshop is informative, coming to realize the existence of a platform like PAEPARD
ii. Understanding of the concept and scope of PAEPARD, its objectives and activities, partnering institutions and projects
iii. Understanding of the importance of synergy (team work), thus encouraging the sharing of experience, ideas and tapping into one another’s competence
iv. Strengthening of linkages between individuals and organisations in the consortium
Implications from the content reflections
i. Partnership is imperative for profitability in poultry production
ii. Each partner knows his/her roles in the partnership for sustainability
iii. The partnership formation should be done as quickly as possible with the obvious advantages accruable to it
iv. There should be a functional framework for an efficient operation of partnership.
This was followed by group presentations on the Partnership’s vision and mission and the highlights are as follows:
Why the Partnership exists?
i. Novel platform through which the researchers can transfer knowledge directly to the farmers as a viable researchers-industry linkage
ii. To identify needs of the members of the partnership
iii. To forge a synergy among the stakeholders in the poultry industry to meet the identified needs and ensure the production of quality feeds at low cost
iv. To develop collaboration that meets the needs of stakeholders, especially end users
v. To tap into individual partner’s expertise, competence and experience
vi. To have better access to funds for the promotion and benefits of the activities of the partnership
vii. To better access to information on low cost and quality poultry feeds
viii. To develop a demand driven technology that solves the envisaged problems of the end-users and improves earnings
ix. Develop a functional framework/structure for the operation of the partnership for increased access to low cost and adequate feeds
What should it look like by the end of 2012
i. Farmer-Researcher partnership fully established with necessary linkages
ii. Farmers must have learnt to formulate cost effective quality poultry feeds
iii. The farmers’ productivity and income would have been positively influenced by the knowledge delivered
iv. The partnership shall be able to develop better collaborative partnerships
v. Reduce protein deficiency gap through the provision of affordable poultry products using low cost quality feeds
vi. Resource pool for both human and material resources for the partnership
After the group presentations, David Suale coordinated as session on developing strategic interests for the partnership and then the group re-convened to discuss the partnership’s goal and purpose in order to determine the beneficiaries and what should be the benefits to them with the following high points identified:
Beneficiaries identified
Farmer organisations (small-scale poultry farmers and feedmillers), research organisations in the field of poultry science, policy makers in the field of poultry production, feed raw materials producers, consumers of poultry products, financial houses and donor organisations
Benefits to them
• 1. Researchers in poultry science
- Gain knowledge in recent advance in poultry feed production and fulfilment that comes from validation of his ideas and theory
• 2. Small-scale poultry farmers and feed-millers
- Increased knowledge
- Increased and improved productivity
- Increased income
- Improved livelihood
• 3. Policy makers in poultry production
- Better information to formulate policies to guide poultry production and feed manufacturing
• 4. Consumers of poultry products
- Improved quality of poultry products and protein intake
- Better products at better prices
- Readily available products for consumers
- Improved nutritional status of poultry products consumers
• 5. Feed raw materials Producers
- Increase in production of feed raw materials due to increase in demand
- Increased sales and income for raw materials producers
• 6. Financial Houses
- Assurance of return on interest due to farmers ability to fulfills credit demands on time as a result of increased profitability
• 7. Donor agencies
- Will have access to the research reports increasing its database of information
- The success of the partnership fulfills the vision/mission of the donor organization(s)
Expected changes in behaviour of the beneficiaries
• Better ways of doing things
• Enhanced capacity
• Improved livelihood
• Improved knowledge and skills
• Increased confidence
The workshop went for a lunch break after group presentations on partnership goal and purpose. On return, group presentations continued on partnership outputs highlighting what should the partnership be accountable for in bringing about the changes in behaviour and what should be their indicators of success. This was followed by group discussions and presentations on partnership outputs highlighting what should the partnership be accountable for in bringing about the changes in behaviour and what should be the indicators of success.
The partnership’s outputs highlighting what should the partnership be accountable for bringing about the changes in behaviour and what should be the indicators of success.
The day’s workshop ended with group assignments on day 2 content reflections and their implications and partnership’s vision and mission statements which will be presented on day 3.
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