Accessible and open data on chicken performance supports investment decisions in sub-Saharan Africa Tadelle Dessie Open Access Week Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 23-25 October 2019 ACGG Vision The vision of this program is to catalyze public-private partnerships for increasing smallholder chicken production and productivity growth as a pathway out of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. What are we doing differently? Achieve ACGG’s cardinal outcomes: - Employment creation, Wealth creation and Poverty reduction CHICKEN STRAINS tested in ACGG project Sasso X RIR Accessible and open data on chicken performance supports investment decisions Who is benefiting from the open data? Private Company/ Strong PPPs BU The right Genetics SHF SHF SHF SHF BU BU BU SHF SHF Finance Institution Aggregators/Local Markets/Partial Buy-back Genetics/DOCs Feed Health Knowledge Communication Technical Support Policy support Gender Empowerment SME finance/ technology etc 4 week-old brooded vaccinators of chicks Own Consumption 3 month - males (2.3 kg) 6 month - Eggs Who is benefiting from the open data? Private Company/ Strong PPPs BU The right Genetics SHF SHF SHF SHF BU BU BU SHF SHF Finance Institution Aggregators/Local Markets/Partial Buy-back Genetics/DOCs Feed Health Knowledge Communication Technical Support Policy support Gender Empowerment SME finance/ technology etc 4 week-old brooded vaccinators of chicks Own Consumption 3 month - males (2.3 kg) 6 month - Eggs DATA Collection and Analysis Who is benefiting from the open data? Private Company/ Strong PPPs BU The right Genetics SHF SHF SHF SHF BU BU BU SHF SHF Finance Institution Aggregators/Local Markets/Partial Buy-back Genetics/DOCs Feed Health Knowledge Communication Technical Support Policy support Gender Empowerment SME finance/ technology etc 4 week-old brooded vaccinators of chicks Own Consumption 3 month - males (2.3 kg) 6 month - Eggs -Smallholder farmers and mother Units -Input providers (genetics, feed and health) -International and National breeding campanies -Policy and desition makers -Development & research institutions -Agregateors and marketers -Financial institutions -R&D Investors DATA Collection and Analysis Key innovation challenges we must address to transform the chicken value chain How to inform and catalyze effective investments, by all actors in the smallholder chicken value chain which underpin the VC transformation How to attract and maintain active involvement of private sector actors in the VC transformation How to equip partners to design and implement breed improvement, multiplication and delivery at scale How to equip smallholder farmers and others to effectively utilize localy available feed resources Key innovation challenges we must address to transform the chicken value chain Private sector led but public sector regulated system Product 1: New Technology –ODK - harnessed –in ACGG data collectionQuestionnaire, phenotypic measurements, GPS waypoints, pictures, performance records…. Product 2: Smallholder poultry feed app! Based on locally available feed ingredients http://acggng.com.ng/ http://acggtanzania.com/ https://acggethiopia.com Product 3: MOOC - E-learning on Animal breeding and genetics https://youtu.be/rHxbQLSoLxc Product 4: ACGG open source dashboard ACGG dashboard is graphical user interface which provides at-a-glance views of key production and productivity performance of chicken breeds in different agro-ecologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, relevant to poultry value chain actors to make their business processes and decisions https://setie.shinyapps.io/ACGG/ Successes so far ACGG data is publicly accessible (Cloud server for countries) More productive, tropically adapted and farmer preferred breeds for different production contexts identified Dashboard on key production and productivity performance of chicken breeds that are relevant to poultry value chain actors to make their business processes and decisions developed and accessible Capacity of partners on design and implementation of breed improvement, multiplication and delivery built Local feed ingredients in different agro-ecologies identified and feed app developed and in use Partners Partners Partners Partners now Partners NOW