Transforming value chains

at scale

Stuart Worsley

Making Agricultural R4D Partnerships Work at Scale Workshop, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 November 2014

Why Partner?

What do we want to achieve?

• Sustainable Impact at Scale

– Transformation:

• Changed value chain dynamics

• Changed practices

• Action by many

The Origin of Thinking

&

Implications

Transformation is not Roll Out

Transformation Roll Out

- Non linear- Organic and emergent- Changing dynamics and

patterns- Continual adaptation and

renewal- Focus on outcomes and

effects

- Planned and predictable- Intervenionist (expanding,

replicating , adapting and sustaining successful policies, programs andpolicies in a place to reach more people)

- Pathway dependent (pilot to policy)

- Driven by vision, catalyst and incentive

- Assumes that scale has no effect

- Focus on instruments

Key elements of Reaching Sustainable Scale

– Being Appropriate • Solutions that work

• Fit for context

– Ownership

– Enthusiasm

– Adoption

Participation

Learning

Relationship Networks

GCARD II

• Transformational Partnerships are those that

– Form around development Issues

– Are joint initiatives across whole systems

– Emerge and learn as they go

– Are grounded in action

Unleashing widespread development action and capability that transforms value chain function

So what stops this from happening any way?

CONSTRAINTS

Development Actors, Value Chain Actors and Researchers Are Different

Researchers Development Actors

Value Chain Actors

Focus Technical solutions Social andeconomic solutions

Being viable now

Mindset and approach

Expertise led - Social participation

- Less robustanalysis

Fixing immediate problems

Goals and intentions

Build knowledge Development results

Pragmatic solutions

Resources Science funding -flexible

Project contracts -inflexible

Sales and short term contracts

Overcoming Constraints – Building Relationships That Work

• Value chain actors, development actors and researchers – All have valid viewpoints – Have comparative advantage– Have important roles to play in transforming VCs. – Are deficient on their own in this task

• Barriers and mistrust can be broken down – Processes to build relationships – Within a framework of alliance and partnership.

• Coordination function based on enablement– Seeking both individual and collective sense– We must offer innovations and services that make sense

to them• Engagement from the start• Science as an attractive knowledge product

– meets both current and long term needs. – analysis, technology, social and economic innovations,

and value chain system facilitation that is framed around alliance and partnership

Principles of Partnership

• Changing the nature of conversation – getting to know “them”

• Value Chain Learning and Action platforms – site and country– Mapping critical issues – common understanding– Offer intelligence on value chain function – Build shared agendas for action by all.

• Multiple strands of action – own volition

• Seeking quick wins to light fires for higher action

• Evolving through investment shaping to whole system action

• Building alliances on success

4 Implementation Steps

Initiate Processes and Structures to Identify and Stimulate Collaborative Action Around Potent Value

Chain System Issues

• Convene value chain system and development actors into learning and action platforms

• With platform members, conduct value chain system enquiry processes that stimulate action

• Facilitate regular and periodic platform reviews of innovations

– Working on different issues in the same chain (parallel action, not aligned)

– Working on the same issues in the same chain (parallel action, aligned)

– Working together on the same issues in the same chain (convergent action)

• Engage specific platform actors in taking successful innovations to scale within the site

• Engage specific platform actors to experiment with innovation adaptation for better solution fit

Form Site and Country Tactical Partnerships for Collaborative Up-Scaling Initiatives

• Form a critical mass of actors around signature issues that manifest national up-scaling potency and interest

• With each signature issue, spawn collaboration sets between key value chain system and development actors

• With each signature issue, engage development actors who have the potency to offer enablement services within their current program agendas

Form Transnational Strategic Partnerships for Out-Scaling

After some time in our countries of operation, we will begin to show success in stimulating national value chain system transformation, to address systemic patterns

• Convene regional and global review forums

• Around signature issues, form action sets of strategically aligned development partners

• Engage in strategic partnership agreements with willing development partners

Provide Facilitation and Knowledge Services to National and Transnational Platforms

Underpinning this trajectory is the role of knowledge in shaping action

• Develop learning and action platform methodologies and provide capacity development services to enable tactical and strategic development partners to facilitate whole value chain system facilitation

• Provide Knowledge Development, Networking, Brokering and Management Services to national and transnational platforms

• Climate Smart Dairy

• Feed and Fodder for Dairy

• Building diary sector knowledge and skills

• Milk quality

• Production, productivity and processing

• Extensive livestock production systems

• Extensive Livestock marketing systems

• Extensive livestock and climate change

• Access to BDS for extensive livestock system

SNV – Netherlands Development Organisationand CRP Livestock and Fish

• Gender and social relationships in livestock value chains

• Bangladesh and Egypt – Aquaculture value chains

• Tanzania – Dairy

• Uganda – climate change resilient livelihoods, private sector engagement

CARE and CRP Livestock and Fish

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future. The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish aims to increase the productivity of small-scale livestock and fish systems in sustainable ways, making meat, milk and fish more available and affordable across the developing world.

CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish

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