1. Public Private Partnership for Artificial Insemination Delivery (PAID)
MORE PRODUCTIVE COWS
Improving genetics through sustainable PPPs

2. Presentation Outline Why? - Goal and Objectives
How? - Implementation strategy
Where? - Target geography
What is up? - Progress thus far
How did it go thus far? - Challenges and coping strategies
What is next? - Plan in moving forward
What did we learn? - Lesson Learnt
Ethiopia specific targets.
Heavy focus on building Government’s technical and systems capacity to produce and distribute quality semen and manage regulatory and oversight systems for an emerging private sector.
Emphasize testing/piloting private models to inform direction of future growth and government oversight.

3. I. Why? - Goal and Objectives
Establish financially sustainable private and more efficient and effective public channels for delivery of improved local and imported genetics in TZ
Goal
Objectives
Train, equip, M&E, and incentivize Private AI Techs - 30% of them women
Improve AI Techs Performance
Component 1
Increase farmers demand for AI service
Train & sensitize 84,500 farmers) , provide AI service : 871,500; & follow up technical support – 50% of them women
Component 2
Upgrade/improve semen lab and LN2 generation and distribution, build technical capacity of technicians
Enable NAICs to ramp up their production and distribution of quality frozen semen and LN2
Component 3

4. What gives more productive cows
What maters most?
What gives more productive cows
20% Forage
20% Management & Housing
60% Genetics
Farmers spending
65% Feed
35% Management & Housing
PAID FOCUS
< 5% Genetics
PAID IMPLEMENTS SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES FOR DELIVERY OF AI SERVICESAID

5. II. How? - Implementation Strategy
84,500 farmers trained
871,500) AI Services
296,200) improved calves
80% of AI Techs providing sustainable service
Effective AI Delivery and Increased Demand
Performance Data Recording & Feedback
Performance based incentive system
PPP
CAPACITY BUILDING
Technical
Review and upgrade/update NAIC curriculum
Develop Training materials
Training
Equipping AI Techs
Improve semen and LN2 supply chain
Ethiopia specific targets.
Heavy focus on building Government’s technical and systems capacity to produce and distribute quality semen and manage regulatory and oversight systems for an emerging private sector.
Emphasize testing/piloting private models to inform direction of future growth and government oversight.
NAIC and ABEA

6. Critical partners Critical partners and their respective roles
Introduction of world class breeding Technologies
Develop most skilled and professional AI technicians
Provide a range of Livestock genetics
Partner with NAIC to become leader in production of quality semen
Animal Breeding East Africa Ltd (ABEA)
Production of good quality semen
Training of inseminators
Planning and supervision of A.I. field services
Production and distribution of liquid nitrogen
National Artificial Insemination Center
Establishing national breed registry
Identify productive parent stock (bull dams & bulls)
Establish breeding policy and plan DRAFT GUIDELINES
Establish tablet based performance data collection & feedback system
Africa Dairy Genetic Gains (ADGG) –
Critical partners

7. Activities during inception period
Invitation to MNC to set up AI business in Tanzania;
Design profitable business model for AI Tech (Cash flow);
Assessment of NAIC and Milk sheds to facilitate decision on the Program area of operations;
Review and update AI tech curriculum to world class level;
Selling the AI Tech business model to the bank seeking AI tech bank loan;
Target program implementation sites identified;
Audit of existing AI Technicians;
Performance based incentive system developed and established; and
Performance data capture and monitoring system developed.
Activities during inception period

8. Where? Target geography
Arusha /Kilimanjaro;
Tanga;
Morogoro/Coast/DSM;
Lake zone;
Iringa;
Njombe; and
Mbeya.
Target geography

9. Progress: Component1: AI performance –Door step Delivery
Signing of MoU between ABS-NZ and the Government of Tanzania
What is up: Progress
Program starter up
AI Technicians training curriculum improved to include Business management and Gender modules.
356 (96 F) AI Technicians trained by NAIC & ABS-NZ.
ABEA franchised 300 AI Technician.
Progress: Component1: AI performance –Door step Delivery

10. Component 1: AI performance –Door step AI Delivery
Progress
Annual target vs achieved AIs
200 franchised AI Technicians are out in the field providing AI services;
Steady supply of LN2 to AI Techs in the program area;
Achieved 86% of the annual target.
Component 1: AI performance –Door step AI Delivery

11. Component 1: AI performance –Door step AI Delivery
Progress
Live calf births
Procurement:
300 pcs of LN2 dewars;
300 pcs of tablets. and
200 motorbikes
Equipping 200 AI Techs
Component 1: AI performance –Door step AI Delivery

12. AI TECHS OVERALL PERFORMANCE
A total of 218 AI techs have been reporting inseminations
Across the 5 milk sheds the average performance is between 6 and 11 inseminations per month
Northern zone and Lake zone have the highest averages
AI Techs performance

13. TWENTY & ABOVE INSEMINATION PER MONTH
The number of AI techs who can break even is only 44 out of 218 AI techs providing services;
Northern zone have the highest number of AI techs with 20 or above insemination in a month
AI Techs performance

14. Component 2: Increase farmer demand.
Progress
Farmers in a training session
29,892 farmers (11,913 women) trained on good dairy cattle management;
Six months Radio campaign;
15mio people reached out/ 2mio cattle keepers.
Production of short video clips on best practices produced
Component 2: Increase farmer demand.

15. Component 3: Modernizing NAIC
Procurement for Modernizing NAIC:
Procurement for Modernizing NAIC:
Imported eleven young progeny tested bulls;
Dummy cow;
Training of ten LN2 plant operators
Component 3: Modernizing NAIC

16. Modernizing NAIC farm implements
Tractor
Hay making
Modernizing NAIC farm implements

17. Imported modern lab equipment
Semi automatic semen filling and sealing machine;
Microscope; and
AV warmer.
Modernizing NAIC lab

18. Challenges and copping strategies
Dented farmer confidence on AI Technology – Std’zed message from the MoLF; farmer to farmer inspiration
Farmer concerned on AI cost – Introduction of check off system & setting price
Repetition - Publish success stories; success based pricing selling pregnancy
LN2 plants efficiency – Sourcing LN2 from commercial industries ToL & Hospital
Limited no of MNC interested in investing in the genetics services business in Tanzania; ?????
Financial institutions not ready to finance SME in the livestock sector including AI Techs. Improve AI Tech performance and sell to bank.
Challenges and copping strategies

19. VI. What is next? Farmers Training;
Increasing AI service efficiency – to meet program target;
Improve electronic (tablet/ODK tool) performance data flow;
Animal identification (Ear Tag); Govt intervention on Eartag
Maintain LN2 production plants and implement preventive maintenance;
Pilot Hormone Induced Heat Synchronization and use of female sexed semen;
Engage more private dairy firms.
Ethiopia specific targets.
Heavy focus on building Government’s technical and systems capacity to produce and distribute quality semen and manage regulatory and oversight systems for an emerging private sector.
Emphasize testing/piloting private models to inform direction of future growth and government oversight.

20. Lesson learnt
Dependent of the season, farmers priority changes towards other farm activities/business away from dairying.
Fully private AI Tech perform better that semi private AI Techs (government employee), AI as Business Mindset, Entrenched habits of AI Techs non recording keeping require much longer term strategy to change.
Age proved to be barrier adoption of new Technologies.
Lesson learnt

21. Thank you