Documentation and
dissemination
The program is a strong example of an intervention that can be up scaled and enjoy replication in the market.
In order to spur replication by the market and other practitioners KDSCP has seen it as critical to place great
importance on an explicit and targeted learning and dissemination agenda. KDSCP has considered it is
important to dialogue about the program concept and values plus demonstrate the opportunities to market
players and the vision of change expected. Most importantly it has demonstrated the benefits and value that
(market-based) involvement can deliver to the different stakeholders. It is also keen to share learning with
market based programs in other sectors.
In order to do so it has developed role models and case studies, captured lessons learnt and demonstrated
the opportunity to catalyze market change. This has involved sharing information publicly about market
gaps, opportunities plus lessons learnt in open workshops, sector conferences, on the Internet and in the
media and then offering further technical capacity building to take advantage of such opportunities. KDSCP
is keen to contribute towards setting best practice whilst collaborating with other development practitioners
in the field to ensure integrity towards beneficiaries.
The program pursues a keen learning agenda and ensures opportunities for showcasing and sharing; both
amongst industry stakeholders and between KDSCP and other dairy sector interventions - within the region.
The program was a platform to learn more about the dairy market and how to stimulate systemic market change
over the long term. The program has worked hard to look at the broad picture and explore the market influences
(problems, symptoms and systemic causes) including the approach that was adopted to address the constraints.
Answering the following key questions has afforded KDSCP the ability to dialogue with other practitioners about
the lessons learnt on the KDSCP journey and how its successes can be replicated elsewhere, culminating in the
development of this toolkit:
What’s working/ not working and why?
What were the key challenges and how were these overcome?
What the incentives/ risks are for each actor including who is gaining and who is losing?
What evidence and potential exists for the model to serve larger numbers of people and the potential
scalability?
What evidence and potential exists of market capacity to sustain improvements over time without
continued support?
E-MARKET PLACE
The program developed of an industry-wide web-based
application that serves as a complete dairy and livestock
management information system for the livestock industry. The
application provides an easy interface for data collection and
analysis and enables information sharing among stakeholders in
the sector. This was designed via a competitive bidding process
and will be housed (post-program) with a private sector player
employing a commercial business model. Any market actors can
register from anywhere to access market information and
prevailing prices, link to service providers, place product sale
information or even access e-learning sessions on line.
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