Inception Meeting:Scaling up the delivery of ITM in Tanzania

through facilitation of ITM delivery value chain

Bagamoyo, 29 September 2015

Henry Kiara

Aims of the Project and Expected outputs

Rationale

• ECF is a major constraint to livestock productivity in ECA

• Economic loses in Tanzania est. at Smallholder dairy-US$4.4million (McLeod and

Kristianson 1999) Pastoral and agropastoral-US$ 129.5million (Minjau

&McLeod 2003) Losses from all TBD-US$364 (ECF accounted for 68%)

Kivaria et al.2006)• Does not include “fear of ECF”

Rationale

• Available control options have serious limitations tick control –acaricide resistance, management Chemotherapy-high cost, early diagnosis Zero-grazing-not absolute, not feasible in some areas

• ITM has been shown to reduce mortality to less than 2% in all production systems (Di Giulio et al.2009)

• Although up to 1million cattle have been immunised this is approx.3.5% the cattle at risk

• Hence the need to find new ways to upscale the distribution

Main challenges with the current delivery

• Limited coverage by existing distributors• Trained vaccinators but lacking equipment-lack of

financing mechanisms• Limited cold chain infrastructure-LN, refrigeration

(or too long a chain) • Inadequate business orientation-vaccinators• Limited awareness or incorrect information about

the vaccine

USAID Project

• Partners• Government of Tanzania• GALVmed• Existing ITM distributors• Other partners-to be identified during project

implementation•Duration: 2 years July 2015-June 2017•Grant: USD 0.5million per year

Objectives

1. Expand the distribution reach of the vaccineo Additional distributorso Train additional vaccinators for existing and new

distributorso standardised training, certification,oversight

2. Sensitization and awareness creationo Farmer sensitisationo Media, radio etc.o Regulatory authorities

Objectives

3. Improving Vaccine deliveryo Involve other animal health

actors in ITM-CBOs, DBHs,CBOs,Coops, POs, DMHs

o Input dealership-Agrovet shopso Bundling services: AI networks to

combine with ITM

Expected outputs

• New jobs created• Number of improved agricultural policies developed• Number of livestock keepers using ITM• Number of individuals who have been trained in ITM• Number of groups-producers organizations, women's groups,

trade and business associations, and community based organizations who have been supported

• Number PPP created through the project• Number of households benefiting directly• Number of cattle vaccinated