Institutional Set-up
Management Board Members ll Country Teams ll Country Offices
The two founding partners of SA PPLPP, the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), Anand, India and the FAO through its Pro-poor Livestock Policy Initiative (FAO/PPLPI), are both large organizations of repute. This has definitely contributed to the willingness of others to join. A small coordination team operating from the NDDB House in Delhi supports and steers the country teams established in Bangladesh, India and Bhutan. The three so called Partnering Institution (PI) for SA PPLPP are: for India, the livestock-oriented NGO BAIF, whose head office is based at Pune, for Bangladesh the NGO BRAC operating from the capital Dhaka and for Bhutan the Department of Livestock Production of the Ministry of Agriculture. Each PI has appointed a senior person called the Country Team Coordinator (CTC) on a part time basis and additional middle cadre staff on full time basis. Furthermore, each PI reaches out within and beyond their own organizations in varying forms; i.e. BAIF first invested in their own organization and recently has been approaching other NGOs active in the field of livestock and livelihood, while from the onset BRAC has been involving relevant NGOs, government departments and academia. In Bhutan, the Department interacts directly with extension workers and farmer groups. SA PPLPP provides funds for conducting the activities and the concerned PI employs the staff, provides office space, equipment and other facilities. Depending on the agenda, the heads of concerned PIs participate as invitees in the Management Board of SA PPLPP whose members include NDDB, FAO (India and Bhutan) and FAO/PPLPI representatives.
1 Founding Partners
1.1 NATIONAL DAIRY DEVELOPMENT BOARD
The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was founded in 1965 to replace exploitation with empowerment, tradition with modernity, stagnation with growth, transforming dairying into an instrument for the development of India's rural people.
NDDB began its operations with the mission of making dairying a vehicle to a better future for millions of grassroots milk producers. The mission achieved thrust and direction with the launching of ”Operation Flood", a programme extending over 26 years and which used World Bank loan to finance India's emergence as the world's largest milk producing nation. Operation Flood's third phase was completed in 1996 and has to its credit a number of significant achievements.
As on March 2006, India’s 117,575 village dairy cooperatives federated into 170 milk unions, and 15 federations procured on an average 21.5 million litres of milk every day. 12.4 million farmers are presently members of village dairy cooperatives.
Since its inception, the Dairy Board has planned and spearheaded India's dairy programmes by placing dairy development in the hands of milk producers and the professionals they employ to manage their cooperatives. In addition, NDDB also promotes other commodity-based cooperatives, allied industries and veterinary biologicals on an intensive and nation-wide basis.
In short, NDDB, as a multi-sector and multi-location statutory body, has been involved in planning, implementation, financing and supporting farmer owned, professionally managed agricultural enterprises. It has vast experiences in supporting smallholder organisations and facilitating their access to markets and an excellent capacity in research, training and professional and management service. Taking also into account its understanding of how markets operate and its proven political leverage to get the work noticed by decision makers, makes NDDB an ideal lead partner of the SA PPLPP as has been expressed by key actors of South Asia’s livestock sector.
Dr (Ms) Amrita Patel is the Chairman of NDDB and on rotational basis of the Management Board of SA PPLPP.
Mr. Deepak Tikku is the Chairman of NDDB Dairy Services and member of the Management Board of SA PPLPP.
website: http://nddb.org/aboutnddb/genesis.html
1.2 FAO/ Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI)
In 2001, the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations launched the Pro-Poor Livestock Policy Initiative (PPLPI) to facilitate and support the formulation and implementation of livestock-related policies and institutional changes that have a positive impact on the world’s poor. To achieve this goal, the Initiative combines stakeholder engagement with research and analysis, information dissemination, and capacity strengthening.
A central facility of the PPLPI, funded by the UK Department for International Development, has been established at FAO headquarters in Rome with the responsibility of guiding and co-ordinating the Initiative’s activities, and with the ambition to become a point of reference for livestock-related pro-poor policy development.
In order to cover the different levels of policy-making, extending from international, through regional and national to sub-national levels, and to engage directly with relevant stakeholders, the Initiative complements the work of the central facility with active participation in selected policy processes in a number of strategically chosen ‘focus areas’.
Mr. Joachim Otte is the Senior Officer at the Agriculture and Livestock Division of FAO and member of the Management Board of SA PPLPP.
Mr. Gavin Wall, the FAO Regional Representative for India and Bhutan is on rotational basis the Chairman of Management Board of SA PPLPP.
website: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/pplpi/home.html
2 SA PPLPP’s Partnering Institutions
2.1 BAIF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION –BAIF-
BAIF is an experienced and well equipped Non Governmental Organisation active in the field of Natural Resource Management and with pronounced experiences in Livestock Development. BAIF, with 40 years of its committed service to rural poor, has a mission “to create opportunities of gainful self-employment for the rural families, especially disadvantaged sections, ensuring sustainable livelihood, enriched environment, improved quality of life and good human values”. It is recognised for its professional management, quality, orientation and impact. BAIF has successfully demonstrated and replicated several models for sustainable livelihoods through community mobilisation and technology transfer in Livestock development, Watershed development and land based activities for the poor. Though BAIF activities are mainly with the rural communities particularly with weaker section of the society, all over India, their teams are also active in applied research and studies as well as testing and introducing new technologies. Of late, a move towards multidisciplinary programmes for promoting sustainable livelihood has been successfully tested and is currently up-scaled, while the public – private partnerships have been formed.
BAIF has a large outreach through its 12 associate organisations across the country. It reaches to 2.5 million families in 45000 villages from 12 states. It has strong presence of around 3000 employees with several disciplines, in India including tribal, mountains and dry land areas. BAIF is recognised by the Govt. of India, e.g. the Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Tribal Development, Ministry of Science and Technology, and has recommended that States learn from BAIF experiences and develop programmes in association with BAIF.
Mr. S E Pawar is the SA PPLPP Country Team Coordinator for India.
website: http://www.baif.org.in
2.2 BRAC
BRAC is one of the commendable and big, multifunctional, grass root development organisations in Bangladesh. It was started in early 1972 as a relief measure following the war of liberation. Soon it became a community development organization providing health, family planning, education, agriculture and economic support to different sectors of the rural community, but with particular emphasis on the most disadvantaged, such as women, children, fishermen and the landless. Since 1977, however, BRAC has been working exclusively with disadvantaged sections of the community.
BRAC, with a vision - “A Just enlightened, healthy and democratic Bangladesh free from hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and all forms of exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity”, initiated rural development programmes in 1979 providing credit to target groups.
It reaches to more than 69,241 villages from 64 districts and around a 110 million population. BRAC has 42,693 full time staff, 53,205 part time teachers. More than 6.4 million total jobs are created through various activities under poultry, livestock, agriculture, social forestry, fisheries, sericulture, horticulture, handicrafts, small enterprises, and small traders. It has also promoted 7 associated companies in diverse fields such as banking, internet service providers, cold storage hospitality, tree plantation and software development. BRAC is also involved in livestock development programmes for pro-poor, reaching to ultra poor to moderate poor in the country. BRAC was extensively involved in the evolution of the Bangladesh Poultry Model in the late 1970s. Apart from hatcheries and inputs services in poultry, it also has a full functional bull station, semen frozen laboratory, and breeding services through more than 1,000 centres, which are equipped with trained manpower and supported by Veterinarians.
Mr. AQM Shafiqur Rouf is the SA PPLPP Country Team Coordinator for Bangladesh
website: http://www.brac.net
2.3 ROYAL GOVERNMENT OF BHUTAN, MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF LIVESTOCK (DOL)
The vision of the Department of Livestock is "that farmers possess productive livestock, put scientific management practices into use and tap the production potential to its optimum thereby making the country self sufficient in livestock products". This, therefore, calls for a gradual transition from subsistence to more market oriented livestock production systems.
The DoL operates within the broad framework of the programmes such as breed improvement, dairy development, health coverage, fodder development, sheep and fisheries development, establishment of animal husbandry cum farmers' training centres, research and extension development, human resources and infrastructure development. The DoL operates through its three major Divisions (Livestock Production, Livestock Health and Livestock Input Supply). Implementation activities occur through its twenty six service oriented central programmes (includes farms and laboratories) spread all over the country and the Districts (20) and Block level (202) livestock offices to facilitate livestock development enterprises at the farmers level and to meet the government objective of self-sufficiency in livestock products. Services include production and distribution (and sales) of inputs (breeding animals, pasture seeds, vaccines) and extension such as awareness programmes, artificial insemination and animal health coverage.
Dr. Lham Tshering is the SA PPLPP Country Team Coordinator for Bhutan
website: http://www.moa.gov.bt/moa/agency/agprofile_detail.php?id=3&agname=Department+of+Livestock
